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Your right, I have a few I bought for the kids that are different colors, but have printing on them. That's ok, a little Brasso and a coupla minutes and that is easily remedied.... (23 years ago, 2-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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"John" <john@TCLTC.org> wrote in message news:3C7FF4DE.7DD7AE...LTC.org... (...) Wow, your not kidding. 8 wide currently is more to 'scale' then the 6 wide... Maybe one day... Dean (23 years ago, 2-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I belive only the set 1360 has the slope part with out print on it in yellow. (URL) checked through the cataloge to see what other colors could be done. There are alot of the new colors, but all the ones I saw have some kind of print on them. (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Take a look at this comparison which I just whipped up: (URL) (while adding this I accidentally deleted the entire folder but I just reloaded it:-p) Mine isn't just "larger"-- it's also proportioned more correctly. (...) You assume correctly. (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I think your model is better from the front (the proportion seems more correct), but from the sides I think they are both more or less the same although yours is obviously larger again. The front windshield looks a little weak, I assume a (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Never realized that would work! Josh (23 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Well, my 10020s arrived yesterday, and so I built one using a 9 volt motor, and kit-bashed the other 2 to modify my Super Chief MOC. Here are a few pics of the 2 together for comparison in my Super Chief folder: (URL) I noticed most is that when you (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) You also end up using some of the coloured bricks around the bunker area, which would otherwise be required for the tender. They don't actually give you enough bricks to build the stand-alone engine and the tender at the same time. Jason J (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Excellent use - I had a feeling someone would find an imaginative use for these - hence (URL) one seems to have more potential uses than the related parts with "wings". Chris (23 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Brian kendig" <brian@enchanter.net> wrote in message news:GsAvE1.6qK@lugnet.com... (...) of (...) anywhere (...) You buy the light brick on it's own. It comes with instructions for mounting the light at the front. The part number is: 3748 Light (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Looks like I will be buying some Lego Racers in the near future. Very nice use of parts! Robert Powell (23 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) That is super cool. Brilliant! later, James Mathis (23 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Brian kendig wrote in message ... (...) The "without tender" MOT engines have a coal bunker built onto the back, which would be superfluous on an engine with a tender, and also make it impossible to reach out the back of the engine cab to the tender (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Just noticed this morning that the registry hit the 400 mark today, pretty cool. (URL) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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I've got two questions about the My Own Train locomotive: (1) Why do the 'large engine' instructions give two different designs, one for if you have the tender and one for if you don't? I think the 'without tender' design looks better, but does it (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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I came up with a nice simple way to make a train nose. I was playing around with some small 2x2 ramp parts and came up with this design. (URL) looks more like the nose of a tram, but I am sure you all will think of many uses for it. So take a look (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Just another speculative theory: Maybe Brad just meant they took the first 5 ever produced engines out of the production, not the numbers 0001, 0002, 0003, 0004, 0005 (which would lead to the problem with the too big number of 10000.) So they (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) plate. (...) My theroy is that nobody at LEGO really thought about this and you guys are obsessing on minutia (:-)). Perhaps this thread should be moved to off-topic.geek (23 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Indeed, a note on the box saying "the colour of same parts may vary" will do little for their sales. What worries me is that this is the second set this has happened with inside a year - ultimately the costs of these errors are paid by us. One (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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Maybe the 10,000th 10020 SF Engine won't come with a small red 2X1 tile with the production number on it, but with A. A larger Tile, possibly a 4X1 smooth tile with the LEGO logo on it and the production number next to it (both on the same tile) B. (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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