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(...) Hi Larry, thanks for the link! Nice John Deere tractors, that remind me on the old tractor used as load here... (sorry for bringing this link once more.) ;-) (URL) this site: (URL) you may know, most of my models are somewhat related to rural (...) (22 years ago, 7-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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Cary Clark wrote in message ... (...) 15 (...) Interesting - Jeremy Rear brought his Santa Fe ABA set to NWBrickcon this weekend and it kept slowing down to a crawl at certain places on the track for no discernible reason. Good old Thomas the Tank (...) (22 years ago, 7-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) it (...) the (...) Slit the tape on a 4534 box at Target yesterday. White boxes within, not anything special. The number for the blue passenger car is the same as the green. I would have hoped they'd change it. I'm not shelling out the $140 my (...) (22 years ago, 7-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: MOC - small train engine shed
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My 40 class would look great sitting inside that shed! Great job Bob... -Harvey (22 years ago, 7-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hey Tim, it looks like the Exclusive Train Set is available from Target.Com for $160 US. A little pricey overall, but if you were really interested, I am sure that an AFOL south of the border could offer some assistance. A blue passenger coach (...) (22 years ago, 7-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Best Train to Purchase for a Newbie? (Poll)
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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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"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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(...) 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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(...) 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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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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(...) 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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(...) *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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