 | | Streamliner Dome Car Instructions Corrected and BF PDX 2004
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Issues with the image formatting in the Streamliner Dome Car instruction book have now been corrected. Also, Santa Fe has officially permitted me to reference to the Santa Fe and Super Chief names in the book, such that the book now features a (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: hogwarts
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(...) This question pops up from time to time in this newsgroup. A quick search on keywords "motorize hogwarts express" reveals two previous treads where you'll find some more detailed and additional information on the subject: (URL) The Lego (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: hogwarts
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Shona, I believe the Hogwarts Express instructions have a page showing you how to attach the motor and conventional train wheels. You can find scans here: (URL) by Theme and jump to the Harry Potter section. Bryan "Shona Brodley" (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | hogwarts
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I have a hogwarts express, and I wan to know how to motorize it. Is it hard? (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Large and Small Purple Train Windows
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Looks like the Knights Bus will also have a purple 1x2x3 train window in addition to the pile (19?) of purple 1x4x3 train windows. (URL) looks like the best 2004 set IMHO. I really hope the purple is the same shade which appeared in the blue TRU (...) (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Designing Train Layouts for Realistic Operation - updated notes, track layout, pictures, timetables etc
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I have updated the info page for my presentation with the detailed notes from the session, which are more detailed and better organised, and with more links, than the presentation on the CD. They are available in HTML or Word DOC format. I've also (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Digitrax DZ123
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(...) [snip] (...) Hi All, I'm following up on my earlier post (above). I purchased some of these DZ123 decoders and finally got around to installing a couple of them. Street price for me ended up being about $16 (US) each. Installation went (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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| | Re: Operation notes (was: ILTCO Article - Making heavy-duty...)
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(...) Darn. That'll teach me to to post from memory when I've just got home from a trip! Correct link is: (URL)PDX attendees got a copy of a (...) some for (...) The notes which will be at that link later today are more detailed and better organised (...) (21 years ago, 17-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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(...) very detailed presentation on their event CD, though. Kevin cut it down some for what he actually presented. (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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(...) I'm a professional Software Engineer with 3 years of PHP and mysql experience, were I to log in and discover poorly commented, badly structured, inefficent code I don't think I'd laugh, I think I'd fix it. As a community, I think you are (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: ILTCO Article - Making heavy-duty powered LEGO® Track Connections for Public Display Layouts
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James Powell wrote in message ... (...) W or (...) I still have to post the final detailed presentation notes, but the page related to my BF PDX presentation on Operation is here: (URL) kit: (URL) TOWN PLANNING information: (URL) Lego parts store: (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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(...) Icky. What about when amatures come in and write code that is... laughable... at best. Then you have a website made of mangled, chaotic code that definetly does not help the community at all. Poor commenting, bad structure, inefficent (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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(...) 1) That the site software will be published under an Open Source license. 2) That the content (or at least as much as possible of it) will be available as a whole under an Open Source license. 3) Probably also that we will set up a formal (...) (21 years ago, 15-Feb-04, to lugnet.org, lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: ILTCO Article - Making heavy-duty powered LEGO® Track Connections for Public Display Layouts
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(...) What I did for the Train Operating Weekend last year was to make 12 gauge wire connectors, run into screw type connectors. These each had a 2x2 plate connector wired to it (not the lego original ones, but ones made from plates, with 18 ga (...) (21 years ago, 14-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Idea for a track power pickup for non motored trains...
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(...) I've used a 27 mHz hobby setup powering a 4.5V motor before. It worked quite well, for about 1 hour at a time. However, it required 10 N cell batteries to power it. It fit into a battery car that had the guts cut out of it (I have a spare...). (...) (21 years ago, 14-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Train poster
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(...) Yes, they are handbrakes. (...) It doesn't particularly matter- the way that brakes are dealt with on trains now is that they are a fail on device. I think that the hand brake wheel is to take the brakes OFF rather than put them on- I don't do (...) (21 years ago, 14-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Idea for a track power pickup for non motored trains...
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(...) Last year I built a tram and the power came from a 9V battery box (heavy, the battery are quickly out...), and it is not very recommended to make circulate a tram without control (just on/off) on a circuit with other trains. I realized a (...) (21 years ago, 14-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Steam train
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Hello! I am back for a short remark:-) I have tried to make a steam engine based on the Danish E-Type using BBB´s wheels and I have to say I am very happy to be able to use these wheels! Tell me what you think as this is my first ever atempt to (...) (21 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | potentiometer
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Hi im going to be using a potentiometer to control a train, it will be connected to the sensor input, just wondering when i program it do i define it as a rotation sensor? thanks steven (21 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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Hello! (...) Well, most AFOLs already have been LEGO fans as kids and - after a periode of neglecting the brick, the so called 'dark ages' - found back to their old love. That means: For the purpose of growing hard core LEGO fans it's necassary to (...) (21 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains) !
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