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(URL) (22 years ago, 8-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)
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LOL! :-D Thank you Steve! Your houses looks good BTW! Pierre MonLUG #1 (...) (snip) (22 years ago, 7-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)
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OOPS! Well now you all know what I've been starring at wow! This (MonLUG)layout is fantastic. So here's a couple shots of my little town, not decorated yet. (URL) for all the pointers, it helped me get right to work. One slight inovation was the (...) (22 years ago, 7-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) (22 years ago, 7-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi Cary, I remember that i got also once a problem with a 9V motor (from a new Metroliner set). I could replace him for a new one after contacting LEGO abouth it. The train could run for abouth 10 rounds and then stopped, but the light in the (...) (22 years ago, 7-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)
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Hello You can see this original train in the web of sncf.fr (URL) regards Pascal BRUGIER FreeLUG (22 years ago, 7-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)
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I've rebuilt my SD40-2 from the ground up. It can be seen at (URL) to LEGO creations, then Locomotives. I had found it weak in a couple of places so that sparked the redesign. The base was pieced together from various plates and was prone to (...) (22 years ago, 7-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)
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In addition, there's Paul's previous under construction building: (URL) member of our club did one using yellow, so if you did't have all the tan lying around... This one looks remarkably close to NELUG's. - Thomas Michon Webmaster, SCLTC (...) (22 years ago, 5-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)
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Shaun, Thanks for the link, that's a great picture! FYI the SCLTC pic is of a two story town hall building, also a great pic! (URL) are just so cool! They remind me so much of the old Atlas (HO) models of "Houses Under Construction" SteveB (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hiya Steve, Tom Duggan made an excellent one. Here one pic I found: (URL) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) They work pretty well. I run my 12v "Grasshopper" Atlantic on 9v layouts. I have to keep it at a kind of high speed, or the motor jerks and sticks (but that may just be mine). I use the quick-and-dirty method to make it go. It's powered from (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi All, I'm planning on building, or should I say half building, a house under constuction for the next PNLTC train Show (April 17-19 in Portland). I know the SCLTC has one and I recall seeing others. If you don't mind me using some of your ideas (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)
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I would like to announce that on May 9-11 at the NMRA Southeastern Region 2003 Convention at the Chattanooga Choo Choo Holiday Inn Resort in Chattanooga Tennessee the North Georgia LEGO Train club will join forces with the MidSouth LEGO Train Club (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.fl, lugnet.loc.us.ga, lugnet.loc.us.tn, lugnet.loc.us.ar) !!
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(...) Although the 9v -> 12v conversion is very nice, as you said in another post, 9v is really the way to go. In fact, I don't have any 12V track, but I am planning on getting a 7745, or possibly some other 12V trains. Of course, you can simply (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) <snip> (...) Hey All, I'm cross-posting this as there are quite a few interesting building techniques I think the community as a whole would like to see, Once again, that link is: (URL) lugnet.town, lugnet.trains Followup: lugnet.org.us.lucny (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.us.lucny, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi Mike, it took maybe 3 hours to convert the first motor. Then I did 2 at a time and needed less than 2 hours to convert 2 motors. An that included all works: making the connecting bushes, opening the housing, drill the needed holes etc. That (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi Cary, that sounds not to good... :-( (...) I always swapped all 4 rubber bands (at maybe 33% of all my motors - especially those that have not too much ballast but shall pull longer trains). (...) Only on 9V nowadays. In the past a few (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Pictures from RichLUG Train Show: 3/22-33
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On March 22-23, RichLUG participated in the annual Wings ‘n’ Rails Show at the Aviation Museum of Virginia ((URL) here in Richmond, VA. Here’s a link to a folder in our BrickShelf gallery that contains some pictures I took with an elderly 35 mm (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.richlug, lugnet.animation, lugnet.loc.us.va, lugnet.town)
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes: ... (...) Last night I finally got around to filing down a few of my many defective wheel sets and successfully got a single Santa Fe engine (for the first time) to pull five stock Santa Fe cars around (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)
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Apart from the concern of running the motor built for 9v at 12v Ben's method requires breaking open the casing, building the 4 contact bushes and fitting them and connecting them internally. He also says "putting things together might be a bit (...) (22 years ago, 2-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)
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