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Last night, I while waiting for something to finish, I put together this little map of the US Santa Fe engine distribution. (URL) pulled the data from the SF Registry site, pruned it down to the US(1), integrated it into a GIS(2) coverage and (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Santa Fe caboose
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(...) I'd agree that the rounded edge is too small to model, but the overall curve of the roof can still be done. I like to have (in six-wide at least) a plated roof, with the middle four studs raised by one plate. This isn't my best example of (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: HoMa and the Trans Namib, part Zwei
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(...) All I gave as forecast in the beginning of 2002 has been the statement, that there would be no new train sets released in 2002. Again a huge disinformation..... Ashes on my head for that. (I simply believed the guy from TLC who told me so). (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LEGO Shop@Home Catalog Train Shed Instructions!
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Sorry about that, that this wasy my 1st attempt at a .mpd file. Try it now. I've fixed the problem. As for a scan of the shed,... hum... no idea? A word to note, the .mpd file is MISSING the 1x4x6 doors with glass. I did not put them in becuase they (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: HoMa and the Trans Namib, part Zwei
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(...) Well, I'm not sure whether or not it's photoshopped, but there IS a newspaper called the Allgemeine Zeitung. According to Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, it's the oldest daily paper in Namibia. -- Thomas Main thomasmain@hotmail.com (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: The "Unknown" Santa Fe
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(...) <snip> I hate to be the grammar police, but this is one of my new pet peeves. I believe you mean that Allan's comments -prompt- your question. To beg the question means to -avoid- the question, or else to use your own conclusion as the basis (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Trains sets are just not meant to be parted out... (was re parting/collectability was SF F unit set
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(...) You ask this question in .trains ??? Infidel. The answer is obvious. Go to the wasteland that is .starwars and repent. :-) (although at one dark point pre BrickLink(bay) I was contemplating raiding a built 4551 for its red corros... ) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: The "Unknown" Santa Fe
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"Allan Bedford" <apotomeREMOVE-THIS@...vista.net> wrote in message news:GsHAKM.F9w@lugnet.com... (...) participating (...) "collecting Lego" (...) to (...) [ ... snipped ... ] Four years ago when I first re-discovered this hobby the thought of not (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: The "Unknown" Santa Fe
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(...) [snip] (...) But you've gotta[1] keep fighting the good fight anyway 8?) [1] That's gotta[1] be in a dictionary somewhere[2] [2] I just lerv[1] recursive footnotes 8?) ROSCO (who's noticed at least 5 spelling / grammatical errors in his recent (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: The "Unknown" Santa Fe
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(...) After I checked both dictionaries by my computer and then hiked down to the basement to the OED, all without results, I looked up "festouche" on Google-- now THAT certainly calls to mind an image. (...) So Lar, you have one listed in the (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: PNLTC display in Edmonds, WA
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(...) We very much would like to see some mechs at future train shows. That was absolutely fantastic. What amused me was how the kids just crowded around whenever one of you took a mech off the table to show it off. The poor train modelers didn't (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: HoMa and the Trans Namib, part Zwei
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(...) Namibia is a former German colony (and their only in Africa, if I recall correctly), isn't it? That would make it more surprising to me if they didn't have a German paper than if they did. Alan (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: The "Unknown" Santa Fe
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(...) Different interpretations of what it means to 'be snotty' I guess. I see snotty as taunting, presumptuous, know-it-all. I was trying to preface my comments (which *could* have sounded snotty) and let people know that I wasn't just flinging out (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: The "Unknown" Santa Fe
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes: <snip> c /Scroedinger's/Schroedinger's/ (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: The "Unknown" Santa Fe
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(...) I hear you say that and see that now. But when I read your original (requoting) (...) I seriously took your words to mean "this is wrong". The "may sound a bit snotty" is often a giveaway to that sort of "wrongness" sentiment. Had you said "I (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | HoMa and the Trans Namib, part Zwei
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This shot: (URL) Photoshopped?(1) Knowing the riff raff that HoMa hangs out with (2) I have my doubts. But I'm not 100% certain it's a spoof. It COULD make the front page of the paper, who knows (although I had no idea Namibia had a German paper... (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: The "Unknown" Santa Fe
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(...) Neither do I. I didn't suggest it was wrong, only that I was curious why some folks like to keep sets unopened. It's a really hard concept for me to get my little brain around. :) (...) 100% for me, but then who's counting? (...) I suppose (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: The "Unknown" Santa Fe
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(...) I must be missing some inside joke. Anyone care to fill me in? (...) I'm also enjoying some of the perks of adulthood. But I'm still in the dark about not opening LEGO sets. The curiousity would drive me crazy. I've bought multiple copies of (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Santa Fe Numbers
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Oh, Man! That's my LUGNET membership #! Consider a trade? Robert Powell (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: The "Unknown" Santa Fe
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I have an unopened Technic Space Shuttle. I've never seen one opened. And it kills me that I have not opened this one, but one day in a 100 years, my kids (not even close to reality yet) will have something fun from my generation to play with still (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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