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I've been racking my brain trying to think of an easy way to get power from the track to a non motored car. For things like lights or movements etc. I think I have something that might work. If we take two standard wheels sets and replace one wheel (...) (21 years ago, 8-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Pictures of COLTC at Columbus GATS
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(...) Thanks for the great pics, Troy! So who in the club is the Weezer fan? (URL) (back side) (URL) (front side) I think one of my favorite scenes (which COLTC has done a few times now) is the "sand dune/beach house" scene: (URL) (seaside) (URL) (...) (21 years ago, 8-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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| | Re: Pictures of COLTC at Columbus GATS
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(...) Wow, what a great job! I love the Huntington building and especially the Leveque Tower (amazing job on the detail.) I grew up in Columbus, and it's bringing back memories... Doug (21 years ago, 8-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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| | Pictures of COLTC at Columbus GATS
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I've posted my pictures from today's GATS show in Columbus, OH. Central Ohio LEGO Train Club did an outstanding job on their display. (URL) of the subfolders have been moderated already and I suspect that the others will be soon as well. Troy (21 years ago, 8-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.oh) !!
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| | Re: ILTCO Article - Making heavy-duty powered LEGO® Track Connections for Public Display Layouts
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(...) From the article: "The longest power cable I've seen from LEGO is 1-meter in length." The longest I have is 3 meters. The LEGO dacta 9898 set has two such cables. Regards, Thomas (21 years ago, 7-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: ILTCO Article - Making heavy-duty powered LEGO® Track Connections for Public Display Layouts
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(...) I noticed in the above article there was the shameful hacking of a good LEGO connector cable. This is needless slaughter! I'm sure you guys have many 2x2 connectors just waiting to be harvested for a useful task! Inside each and every LEGO (...) (21 years ago, 7-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: ILTCO Article - Making heavy-duty powered LEGO® Track Connections for Public Display Layouts
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(...) IndyLUG did essentially the same thing a while back. The one problem we had was that we used the really short wires from ZNAP sets, so we ended up with non-Lego wires on the tables and these bulky connectors that needed to be concealed (I (...) (21 years ago, 7-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | My first use of BBB wheels
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If I understand the numbering terminology... Dave's 4-4-4 (URL) just received the wheels and kinda built this from memory. It works around the layout, but can't go too fast or falls off thru switches. Have a look and let me know what you think :) (...) (21 years ago, 7-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: ILTCO Article - Making heavy-duty powered LEGO® Track Connections for Public Display Layouts
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(...) a standard 9v LEGO wire underneath it. This serves 2 purposes: It allows connection of a controller to test the polarity before soldering, by setting the controller and touching the wires to the conductors you can quickly see if polarity is (...) (21 years ago, 6-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: ILTCO Article - Making heavy-duty powered LEGO® Track Connections for Public Display Layouts
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"Lewis Valentine" <lewis@nitorco.com> wrote in message news:Hso1E0.1wJE@lugnet.com... (...) Layouts (...) the (...) [ ... snipped ... ] This would make a good topic for an ILTCO article - care to write one? ILTCO Members can submit articles by (...) (21 years ago, 6-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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