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(...) SWEET! You know, for the less, shall we say "brick endowed", Woodchip cars can be VERY simple, there are simple smooth wall designs too... Josh (although I LOVE this design!) (23 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: MonLUG and ParLUGment hold their first joint Train Show!
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Well, I packed up most of my buildings and models last night. Looks like they should fit in the four 12 gallon walmart containers I bought. Now I hope it will just fit in my car... not to mention Jude & I may have to take Tim's stuff down... On the (...) (23 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.monlug, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.trains)
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Sweet display stand. Nice job, LEGO. Up to $360 (opening was $50) in the first 12 hours. 9.5 days to go. (!) Rick C. (23 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(URL) a design for a 63 ft woodchip car (23 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Santa Fe Super Chief A0001 on eBay
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For those of you interested, LEGO is currently auctioning Santa Fe Super Chief # A0001 on eBay. See the following listing. (URL) this link doesn't work, go to item # 1719045942. It will be interesting to see how much it sells for. - John Eric -- (...) (23 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | NCLTC to display at Raleigh GATS Show April 6th and 7th
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On April 6th and 7th the North Carolina LEGO Train Club (NCLTC) will have our layout on display at the Great American Train Show (GATS) in Raleigh, North Carolina. The layout will be approximately 16'x20' with four train loops (three 9v and one 12v) (...) (23 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.nc, lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral, lugnet.org.us.nclug)
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| | Re: Moment of Clarity or An Inspiration to the Rest of Us
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(...) Exactly! (...) I think a trolley loop should be idea for this. Lots of ways to incorporate a dogbone loop for those, and an RCX would help us take advantage of that tight design over a regular loop with switched polarity matched with your (...) (23 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.us.lucny, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) May well be. If so, it looks like the registry may catch close to 10%, which is pretty good going! ROSCO (23 years ago, 3-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Is it me or has the listing on shop.lego.com changed and removed the 'limited numbered edition' from the description. Have all 10,000 been sold? Jeff (23 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message ... (...) obviously (...) Is this like what Dean did for our last VLC layout? We had 2 passenger trains running on the same outer loop - one just went round and round, but the other one (Hogwarts Express) was (...) (23 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.us.lucny, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: Moment of Clarity or An Inspiration to the Rest of Us
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Crossposted to trains and trains.org for more visibility as I feel this is pretty exciting stuff! (...) There are a myriad of small trackside buildings that can be used, as well as equipment cabinets etc which are used for prototype (...) (23 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.us.lucny, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) Mike - I'm glad you liked my Easter Train. I finally decided on the name "The Cottontail Special" for the train. I just finished posting another msg with some information about the train and a link to some pictures that I took this morning and (...) (23 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | The Cottontail Special - 2002 Easter Train
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As part of the late-March RichLUG Train/Town display here in Richmond, Virginia, I ran an Easter train that I put together a couple of days before the show. I had wanted to have a train in pastel colors, not only because of the season, but to run (...) (23 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.fun.holiday, lugnet.general, lugnet.org.us.richlug) !
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| | Town Building Contest... and the winner is.....
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Check here for the winners! (URL) Lego Building contest! (URL) 2396 piece kit - only one left! (URL) Lego parts store: (URL) Guild of Bricksmiths(TM): (URL) Lego Web page: (URL) (23 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.arch) !!
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I was poking through some of the RichLUG pictures from their recent show and came across this: (URL) am surprised this didn't generate any discussion! It is eight-wide to boot! This goes along with the WAMALUG Paradisa Level Crossing that someone (...) (23 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: I'm back! (In a limited sort of way)
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(...) Nope, not good news here. The original device worked flawlessly (not counting "prodding fingers from wee ones" error) for at least 20 hours worth of show time and eventually broke a flex shaft. Subsequently, shaft life dropped to something (...) (23 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.duplo, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yes and no. I've had this idea to mount the wheelset like this when I made my wheel car a while ago(it's in my brickshelf gallery somewhere). I tried using the 1x2w/door rail then and didn't come up with anything that worked well. But I (...) (23 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Is that your idea, Chris??? Well whoever it is, that's pretty clever! I knew the wheelsets popped out but had never thought to try to figure out how to mount them. Bravo. (23 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) thanks chris, I will look into that. but i am thinking of making the ends a little different by adding latters and details to the trucks , then attaching car body over it, the middle portion as you see it, is done, not much left to add (23 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I'm glad to see that some people are using my idea :) From looking in the recent brickshelf galleries- I can see that Ondrew Hartigan has made a spine car using and expaded version of the wheelset idea: (URL) cars look great but here are a few (...) (23 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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