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(...) Wow, I missed that one. Great idea with the Maerklin-like transformer as load! I would beg you to post your MOC designs more often here (even if you sell them...). Or have I just overread your announcement concerning that great waggon? Keep on (...) (22 years ago, 25-Sep-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) to drop center flats. You can see another approach here... (URL) had chosen to have end railings (simulating a car that has many more wheels than the car actually does) rather than extending the ends as far as Huw did. Huw needs a bigger load (...) (22 years ago, 25-Sep-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Wow, these models are cool! Huw has created some new waggons. This one rocks: very clever design for a heavy load flatbed! (URL) steel transport waggon is my second favorite looks so simple, but very realistic: (URL) all these open waggons look (...) (22 years ago, 25-Sep-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi Gianluca, thanks for sharing these pictures of the Itlug! I would like to know just a little bit more about the Itlug trainheads: - do you have this room as a permanent club room? (I think the room problem is one, lots of us suffer at...) - (...) (22 years ago, 25-Sep-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) So you're saying LEGO has approached you to purchase one of your designs? JohnG, GMLTC (22 years ago, 25-Sep-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Chances are he probably could not answer that under the terms of his non disclosure (...) but even if he could, he almost certainly can't answer that one. But his NDA could be different than mine, of course. (22 years ago, 24-Sep-02, to lugnet.trains)
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I like how you made a monorail out of the metroliner parts, it looks sharp! Michel Magnan (...) (22 years ago, 24-Sep-02, to lugnet.trains)
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"Paul Sinasohn" <singlow2@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:H2yo2L.Cso@lugnet.com... (...) That's my "Mad Max" train. I'm currently rebuilding the engine and adding two more wagons. It'll be ready (I hope) for Lego World 2002. (URL) has some more (...) (22 years ago, 24-Sep-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) James Mathis also created this: (URL) I believe looks even closer to the original post! James, has Lego approached you about buying anymore of your Lego creations/ideas? And if so, which ones??? Sincerely, John Musil (22 years ago, 24-Sep-02, to lugnet.trains)
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What is the black train in this last picture? any shots of that? Paul Sinasohn LUGNET #115 (...) (22 years ago, 24-Sep-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi guys, thanks to Alfio Scaletta's kind help,I could add 7 new pics to the layout folder: (URL) is a 3 by 3 meters (10 by 10 ft.) modular layout that ,here at ItLUG we began to build before summer (and these pics are from that period,the end of (...) (22 years ago, 24-Sep-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Hello All, I have built 2 of my favorite James Mathis creations, the White Pass & Yukon locomotive and his Double stack cars. (URL) had to make color changes to the WP&Y loc for obvious reasons and part substitutions due to availability but I (...) (22 years ago, 24-Sep-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi guys, I'm just posting the link to the pics from the latest PLUGfest, where I had the chance to take some snapshots of my bridge (mentioned earlier on .trains, about 4 months ago), and a couple other stuff. Since there is no text, I'll make a (...) (22 years ago, 24-Sep-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.castle)
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(...) Thanks so much for sharing this incredible poster with us. I love it. Now, to find somewhere to print it bigger than 8.5x11. :-) Play well. Tim Strutt 8^) (22 years ago, 24-Sep-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) ;-) ...grinning... No, I am not upset (sometimes I am just acting as if I was), but I think Lego should consist out of 'universal' parts, like molekules are made from atoms. I love the Santa Fe and the 7740 for that reason while even the much (...) (22 years ago, 24-Sep-02, to lugnet.trains)
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I took another look at the engine and realized it was very similar to the new locomotives that New Jersey Transit ((URL) recently purchased. A friend of mine (who works for NJT) sent me a picture of one last week, but he did not give me any details (...) (22 years ago, 24-Sep-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) What about the windshield piece used in this set?: (URL) Mathis has modeled a train using it, and it looks quite like the one in the original post (which I now realize I've deleted that part of the message!): (URL) course, James can use just (...) (22 years ago, 24-Sep-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Ben, You'll never need to us the Jack Stone Lego - I've personally seen what you can do with regular bricks! I do think train windscreens are one of the hardest parts to make though - particularly if like to stick to 6-wide. Most trains have complex (...) (22 years ago, 24-Sep-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yes you are right. But I promise: the day Lego makes an engine with these parts, I stop collecting train sets... I dislike the Jack stone special parts too much to use them anywhere. Leg Godt! Ben P.s.: In fact I have already put a new limit (...) (22 years ago, 24-Sep-02, to lugnet.trains)
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The front of that engine could easily be made out of a printed version of (...) [snip] (...) (22 years ago, 24-Sep-02, to lugnet.trains)
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