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(...) Yep. While WE probably all can (and will) fix the problems with the ATSF rolling stock, it may not be the best set for a newbie, who won't know what to do (or have the big collection of parts to do it with) and thus might get frustrated. (...) (22 years ago, 7-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Best Train to Purchase for a Newbie? (Poll)
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"Aaron J. Muhl" <aaron_muhl@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:H3Kqo1.7rq@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) Metroliner (...) I submitted my opinion to your poll but also thought I would comment on it here as well. Two weeks ago I probably (...) (22 years ago, 7-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: MOC - small train engine shed
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(...) The canonical thing to do seems to be use 12V track rails and tinypeg train wheels to ride on top of them to hold the traveling gantry... If that wasn't what you were asking, oops! (22 years ago, 7-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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Here's just a small train engine shed I made with room for one small engine inside. (URL) frame on the right is supposed to be a gantry for an overhead crane hoist but I can't decide how to design that part. Suggestions gladly accepted!!!! - Bob (22 years ago, 6-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Classic Toy Trains Magazine taking its queues from NGLTC (or so it seems)
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In the recent flier for the up coming Atlanta Greenberg Toy & Train show I found this little event listed: "Celebrate Classic Toy Trains Magazine's 15th Anniversary at the Classic Toy Train Races! Three side by side tracks, each 24 feet long; (...) (22 years ago, 6-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: new waggons by Huw Millington
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(...) Well, since you begged... :-) Here's an announcement of a new design... (URL) have some variants and doodles (for lots of other equipment) which I need to get some pics of. I was lucky enough to be in Portland OR earlier this week and visited (...) (22 years ago, 6-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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Greetings all, I've been a huge Lego fan for most of my life, largely because of my father. While he has never owned any sets himself, he always participated in building when I was young, and he always drooled over all of the train sets. Well, this (...) (22 years ago, 6-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Find my train
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Hello, I will try to answer some of your questions. I bought a box with about 15-20 kg of lego so it is hard to exactly telle which part are from the trainset. (...) 8 but I thins some are from the snow remover, as I found some bricks which looked (...) (22 years ago, 5-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Super Chief set not ready for prime-time
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In lugnet.trains, Mike Case writes: ... (...) The Super Chief locomotive and cars are absolutely beautiful. I've bought 15 sets so far, and I could see buying more. But, it is the poorest running train since the inception of 9V. As Jeroen de Haan (...) (22 years ago, 5-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Trains arrive at Target in SoCal
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(...) As a Canadian, with no Target available, I am VERY disappointed. Jake, will any other stores outside the US be getting 4535? Or will LEGO Direct be making blue passenger coaches available in the future? Thanks. Tim Strutt (22 years ago, 5-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: The story is like this...
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(...) *bangs head* Do you really think that with TLC's big push for LEGO Train clubs, the support they're giving, and now selling My Own Train at retail, they would do this? It makes zero sense. Here they are trying to build momentum for LEGO (...) (22 years ago, 5-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: I heard a rumour that lego were going to ditch 9v track...
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(...) I suppose it depends on your definition of long term but I'm fairly comfortable with the medium to long term (5-10 years) direction for LEGO(r) trains. I wouldn't read too much into them not having new parts. LD originated sets tend not to (...) (22 years ago, 5-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Is this really true though? After all, 3 of the 2001 train cars are available at retail. Probably more significantly, there are 2 different retail starter sets that are built around the 2001 series of trains. Does anyone else suspect that by (...) (22 years ago, 5-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Always true, but I doubt that they would leave the current system behind just as they're on the brink of getting trains to become readily-available to the mass market (at least where there's a Target) and thus having their popularity shoot up. (...) (22 years ago, 5-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) That sounds a bit of a pain. The motor would be bigger, making it hard to use existing sets. But perhaps it is what the [mass] market wants? Scott A (...) (22 years ago, 5-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Can we be sure trains are a "money-making theme" in the longer-term? The fact that much of the newer offerings can only really be had via S@H and that these sets contain no real new parts makes me wonder what the long term plans for trains (...) (22 years ago, 5-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: I heard a rumour that lego were going to ditch 9v track...
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(...) And that is your opinion. The rumor was a change to the track, not the discontinuation of the entire line. It could happen. Suppose LEGO came out with a 9V multi-channel IR controlled train motor (Manas? Spybotics?) that didn't require powered (...) (22 years ago, 5-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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I don't think LEGO® would leave a money-making theme such as trains hang high and dry, it would be foolish...especially after almost 40 years of continuous train production. This is nothing more than a vicious, nasty rumour. -Harvey (22 years ago, 5-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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A friend of mine that has a wholesale account with lego heard from some person inside lego that they were going to scrap the current 9v track and go for a non powered track setup, more like duplo trains (the person at lego didnt say why but I think (...) (22 years ago, 5-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: More Virtual Trains: Blue Angle, Norway, TGV Duplex, 12x Loc
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(...) Small miss-print here, the native Dutch name of this nice early example of a streamlined diesel-electric is "Blauwe Engel" wich translates as "Blue Angel". Only a small difference in spelling, but big difference in meaning. Thank you very much (...) (22 years ago, 4-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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