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| (...) About 9-10 days late but not bad, overall... Dunno about that color scheme though. (23 years ago, 10-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) James Powell IIRC, and Kevin Wilson has issued some British stock as well. (23 years ago, 10-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk)
| | | | | Re: NELUG at 04/06 - 04/07 Greenberg show (Plus some bonus footage).
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| (...) fire and across the street from the rides? Sweet! -- Tony Hafner www.hafhead.com www.pnltc.org (23 years ago, 10-Apr-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.trains)
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| Finally, after scrounging Brinklink and similar sites for the right parts, I've finally worked up the courage (or foolhardiness, you decide later) to reveal my masterpiece to the world. This is a likeness of a General Motors EMD F-unit. In any (...) (23 years ago, 10-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: Nice Work, Jake!
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| (...) "Soo that's the way it is in that family" ;-) (...) Figmund Sreud would have a field day with you, James-- a 6 wide id with an 8 wide super ego;-) In any event, nice cars:-) -John (...) (23 years ago, 10-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains)
| | | | | Re: Train-on-a-train Car
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| (...) Your last sentence there states the problem exactly- the chain links simply aren't the right length for even stud spacing in many cases. Think about it... the links fit over gear teeth, and why would the circumference of integral-stud-diameter (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.pt)
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| (...) Andy, The 37 took several trial builds to get the cab windows to look 'right', although I would agree that they could be 'righter'! I find that with a moving model such as a locomotive, the overall proportion and look tends to be more (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| (...) Thanks! (...) Right now, the vertical axles that the gears are on are located in the technic holes in a standard train baseplate. For some reason, this seems to add a great deal of tension to the axles. In fact, I noticed (prior to putting a (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.pt)
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| Good to see models of some British prototypes - I've always wanted to build a few British diesels and electrics. I always encounter the same problem though - the windows just don't look right, having said that the 37 looks fairly convincing! I too (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| (...) I can see why... :-) Shaun, this is one of the neatest ideas I've ever seen portrayed in LEGO. Well done! (...) You got me curios, now: what kind of spring-loaded tensioner would you use, and how would you place it? Pedro (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.pt)
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