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High Cube Plug Door Paper Box car: (URL) Gondola: (URL) Gallon "slope build" tank car: (URL) 4x4 Forest Fire truck (Forestry Engine 2): (URL) coming) (21 years ago, 4-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc)
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| | Re: Inspection Car MOC
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hey, thanks, I'm glad you like it. I'm always looking for smallish scale stuff to build. Inspection cars are so much fun, and they are typically so odd that I just love making them. There were two other things that I may build out of your photo set. (...) (21 years ago, 4-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Legoshow in Valga, Estonia
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Hi all! On August 16th I will show some Lego trains in Valga, as a part of the Eurobuss tour. The Eurobuss will drive around in Estonia and inform about the European Union. As a part of this there will be an addition to the local paper, which can be (...) (21 years ago, 4-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Question about the new trains
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(...) I have contacted LEGO regarding this issue as I was disappointed with the rolling status of the Sante-Fe wheels. LEGO said that if I wanted to they would exchange my wheels for new ones (one-to-one) and I would have to mail them in but that at (...) (21 years ago, 4-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Inspection Car MOC
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Cool inspection car! Definitely hits the original on the spot. Glad those photos were useful to someone. -Stefan- (21 years ago, 4-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Question about the new trains
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In lugnet.trains, Mark Riley wrote: snip I use (...) Please post some pictures. I'd much rather spend time cutting than filing. Brian (21 years ago, 4-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) In fixing my wheelsets, I've observed that the gray wheelsets are made of a softer (more butter-like) plastic. Instead of a file, I use a hobby knife to cut out a small portion of the frame where the rubbing occurs. It's easier to cut the gray (...) (21 years ago, 4-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Question about the new trains
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(...) ... (...) ... I don't think so. We've been running some of the same trains at NCLTC for nine shows (some shows for over a month), and the well-run trains still work. The undercarriage is well-worn where the bogies touch the plates, but the (...) (21 years ago, 4-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Yikes! Hadn't thought of that. I'll have to check this out on my wheel-sets. If this is true it means that over time I'll be back in the same mess again! From Cary Clark's reply to my post it sounds like this could be the case that perhaps the (...) (21 years ago, 4-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) ... (...) ... I also filed down enough wheels to make a six car Santa Fe successfully negotiate a 'dog-bone' torture track (all curves) on a low regulator speed, with one motor. Like Paul, I thought I had it all figured out. This weekend, I (...) (21 years ago, 4-Aug-03, to lugnet.trains)
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