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(...) Hi James, Thanks for the comments. I have to say again, it was an honor meeting you at Brickfest. I've been mulling over some of the things we talked about, and I have some promising thought on how I can incorporate some of your ideas into an (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I spent several hours at work today drooling over your Shay. Any chance we'll get to see a little movie clip of the mechanism working? I'll reply more to your Shay in another post :) (...) Luckily, the mosaic set is pure bullion for 1x1s. For (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi Shaun, (...) That's absolutely incredible. The outline is just right, with a fantastic sense of power and presence, particularly in the low-angle pictures. And then all the details. Ah, the details. Wonderful. (...) <snip excellent implementation (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thanks! It's predominately 12-wide, going to about 14-wide over the cab steps, windowsills, and cylinders. Scarily, I started with the same trucks and an 8-wide chassis. I rebuilt this to 10-wide when I thought it looked a bit puny, and ended (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Thanks for the kind words! (...) Only in the sense of "I fancy making some log cars", no designs or anything. I can see at least two issues with this: * I don't have anything like enough brown to make logs, so the load'll probably be real wood. * (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi all, I added some pictures of passenger & freight cars to my home page, witch i'm completely re-building. goto : (URL) and select Trains & cars I hope you like them. Regards, Ludo (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) It is not as bad as it used to be! Recent safty improvements on the chain to the top and on the seat belt system have reduced fatalities down to only a few a day, instead of several dozen per day of operation. :) I'll try and get some more (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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WOW, that looks NICE, my dad though it was a model, not lego! If i had the time i'd build like that Josh (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thanks. The gallery has just been moderated so you can see the rest of the pictures now. Including the 'wrong' side, which is very rarely pictured in real Shays (it's just not as cool) and so quite possibly totally wrong. (...) They'd dwarf my (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Shaun, Thanks for taking the time to post descriptions and photos of the fine detailed workings of your excellent Hudson. This model was beautiful to see in person at BrickFest. Well-deserving of the BrickFest 2002 "Best Train MOC". later, (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Anyone have anything to hold my jaw up!? That is AMAZING! Any plans for log cars? Josh (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Does anyone know when the new catalog will be published by S@H? Will it be bulk mailed out to customers like the regular catalog? Bryan "Mike Walsh" <mike_walsh@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:Gzz2w1.Ir0@lugnet.com... (...) Chief (...) of (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi Will, that model is really stunning! Just x-posted it to 1000steine.de. Regards, Ben (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi all, I uploaded pics of my 4-6-4 Hudson steam engine and tender this afternoon. They can be found at: (URL) couple of points about the engine: (1) For once, I can recount the exact date of conception for the project! I started working on the (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains) !!
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That's pretty much what I though, I have been poking around with my volt meter and it seems the very careful layout of the switch pivot is the key to direction....I was hoping you would have found some simple wire to change :) I'll have to keep (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I do, I do! Very nice work, Will! What is nice about modeling a 14 wide (is that right?) Shay is that since it is a narrow gauge loco, it fits perfectly on LEGO track (although the LEGO wheels are a bit small for scale). My 14 wides utilized G (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Will, Looks Great! I would like to see more large scale trains on lugnet. Gary Simas My brickshelf pictures (no trains yet) (URL) (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.modelteam)
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(...) Oooh.. nice. Very nice. Highlighted! J2 should like this lots and lots. I bet one of his 14 wide cars would not look too bad behind it at all. (22 years ago, 28-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi folks, I delurked on .space a while ago, but I'll say a quick hello to everyone else! I've been thinking about building large scale Lego trains for a while, but I've only recently sorted my sets and been able to start building. Here's the first, (...) (22 years ago, 28-Jul-02, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.modelteam) !!
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I was looking at the new train catalog and noticed that Santa Fe Super Chief locomotive pictured in two places was built with the dark grey bars that were incorrectly shipped with the first batch of 10020 sets. The picture of the train on the cover (...) (22 years ago, 28-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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