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Dean, I am sure that is a very good system you have worked out there but for my part the need to do it all in Pure Lego somehow seemed less important once I had steeled myself to cut open those motors and install the decoders! Besides, I don't have (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | NGLTC Discover Mills store "Club House"
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I am proud to announce that the North Georgia LEGO Train Club (NGLTC) will be getting their own store front at the Discover Mills Outlet mall (same mall as the LEGO Outlet store) just outside of Atlanta. The mall has agreed to give NGLTC an empty (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.ga, lugnet.loc.us.ga.atl, lugnet.general) !
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| | Getting myself on solid ground (after 2 plane flights)
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Try & ship the lego in the picture below, its like $25 in a box, theres over $300 worth just sitting there, covering my bed! I'm happy to say I'll be able to show off more MOC's soon, as I ALSO have THREE packages of my own lego coming, over $50 in (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org.scltc)
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| | Re: Train buffers
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(...) I only have the single buffers, but from analyzing the dat file of 4022 and comparing with my buffers, the ruond shapes seem identical. I think I've made this part sometime long ago, but for some reason it was never submitted. It is probably (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: DCC reversing loops
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(...) Darn, I forgot to mention that to isolate the track take a sheet of paper. Standard photocopy paper works well. Cut it into quarter inch strips. Then place it between the track and you join it. Then use your nail and cut of the excess. Do this (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: DCC reversing loops
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(...) I did a dual reversing loop for our club layout. You don't need to cut anything. You can do it all lego pure. (URL) picture will show how to connect that unconnected inner rail to the proper power. Use a standard track connector and then use a (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 10128 Level Crossing on Shop-At-Home
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(...) Yep, that's correct. The photos I sent ILTCO were very prelim pics. Jake --- Jake McKee Community Development Manager - N. America LEGO Direct (21 years ago, 5-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Thing that happen when you are on holiday...
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Hi all, When I got home today (from a well deserved vacation in beautiful France) I recieved a message to congratulate me with the Lugnet Cool Site of the Week. Wow! Thanks for all who voted. Jeroen (21 years ago, 5-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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| | 10128 Level Crossing on Shop-At-Home
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10128 is now on Shop-At-Home: (URL) to be available in early September for North America and early August elsewhere. US $50 325 Pieces Looks like it comes with three straight tracks, not two. -PD (21 years ago, 5-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Pictures from VLC Surrey Museum Show
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(...) Wow. Doing a period layout is just too cool. We (MichLUG) have talked about it, but that conversation has never gone far. I also really like the track layout going all over the place. Neat. The fact that the layout was able to get away from (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jun-03, to lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.trains)
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| | Train buffers
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Does anyone have both the single train buffer from the seventies and the double train buffers (4022) ? Are the shapes of the round buffer identical ? Why am I asking this? I have just received a couple of single train buffers and I want to create (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jun-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.trains)
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| | DCC reversing loops
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I am sure I saw someone writing about reversing loops but now I can't find it! Anyway, this is what I did this evening in about 10 minutes. I cut both rails of a straight track section being careful to get the cuts aligned then did another cut (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Pictures from VLC Surrey Museum Show
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(...) Now that is really impressive. The pictures look great, but I would love to be able to set up an RCX controlled layout with reversing loops, etc. Now, if I could just afford those RCX's... :-( BTW, my compliments on the layout. Wonderful job. (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jun-03, to lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.trains)
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| | MOC: European old timer trucks from the fifties
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Hi all, after a visit (URL) of this cool site with hundreds of European oldtimer trucks> and building machinery, I got inspired to do my own Lego® truck in a similar style. (URL) Such kind of trucks have been used for any transport purposes over (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jun-03, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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| | a few more 'Challenger' pictures
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I uploaded four more pictures to my Challenger folder, but these are pictures of the real thing. The Challenger visited the Twin Cities last Summer, and I had to see it in person. As you can tell in the pictures, it was *pouring* rain that day, but (...) (21 years ago, 4-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Bad form I kow replying to my own message, and an old one at that but I thought I better correct myself if anyone was searching the archives Its actually a Graham Farish (now owned by Bachmann) N scale model, the coupling were the give-away (...) (21 years ago, 4-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: MOC Streamliner Observation Car
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(...) All that stainless steel (trains) aluminium (houses) and chrome (automobiles) must have made the the US citizens of the 50's "shiny happy people"!!! ... and these chrome bricks do it for me now! Lets have some more ..... (21 years ago, 4-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I heard it was due to cheap electricity in the NW part of the US. Bauxite smelting can make good use of cheap electricity. (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Even more Wow!! for your buck!!! was Re: Woo Hoo!!!!! (part deux...)
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(...) Brilliant! (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Thanks for the link. As for why aluminum became so cheap, not sure. Maybe there was a lot of scrap metal from WWII being recycled? -Stefan- (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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