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Hello All , We have swaped a few LTC containers & stickers at Brickfest PDX . But,I'm not sure which ones at the moment as ROSCO has them. (please put list here) We have mainly stickers , and we need to know what colour the containers are for each (...) (21 years ago, 23-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Streamliner Dome Car Instructions Corrected and BF PDX 2004
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(...) Many Thanks James, For all of the great words ! But, my Lego train building skills would not be at this level if it wasn't for All of the other train builders posting pictures of their MOC's on brickshelf. To inspire me to build better and (...) (21 years ago, 23-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | End of the line for the Metroliner?
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I was looking at some Metroliner items on eBay this weekend and thought I'd check out shop at home to give me a guide price. Imagine the shock when it turned out that 10002 (the bi-level coach) is no longer available! 10001 (the metroliner) is still (...) (21 years ago, 23-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Three Jake McKee posters
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Hi all, You maybe know about the book Jake wrote. There are 3 posters of models featured in the book; a UP diesel locomotive, a container well car and a reefer. The posters are in the style of the book. Please go to www.digitalbricks.nl and have a (...) (21 years ago, 23-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Pictures from the second Great Western LEGO Train Show at the STEAM Museum, Swindon, UK
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We, the Brickish Association, put on our second display at the STEAM museum (www.steam-museum.co.uk) on Saturday 21/Feb/04. Seven of us contributed to a 3m x 12m (6' x 36') layout, and Mark Bellis bought a small layout and his 8mm:ft scale trains. (...) (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.uk) !!
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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(...) [snip] (...) Paul- Thank you! I know that you guys had a lot of great ideas, and I'll contact you via email to discuss some details! Jennifer Boger legofan.net (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains) !
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| | Re: Santa Fe B-Unit and Window Decal for stickers
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(...) Hello, (URL) Herr Zugschleimer>:-) Cool. Do they have adhesive on them, or are they the clingy type? (...) I have a nice vector image that I can easily colorize, but it appears to be a later version of the logo. I can easily replace the circle (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Santa Fe B-Unit and Window Decal for stickers
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I have found at Wal-Mart an (URL) Window Decal material> for making custom stickers. Quantity six 8.5x11-inch sheets in one package, US$7.93, by Hammermill. (URL) I've used it to make a (URL) Santa Fe logo sticker> for the sides of a (URL). (2 URLs) (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Two shades of purple?!
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If you look close at the picture, there appear to be two different shades of purple in the model. Is this because it's a prototype or close-to-finished final model of some kind? Or am I just seeing things? Also, the driver has a purple cap! Dave (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Taking LUGNET to the next level
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Chats with people at BrickFest PDX last weekend got me thinking a lot more about LUGNET and its role in the community. I've bounced some of my thoughts off of various people (including three people from LEGO) and responses varied from positive to (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.publish, lugnet.trains, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.lego.direct, FTX) !!
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| | Re: hogwarts
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Thanx for the help guys much appreciated, kinda new to this stuff. Still a lurker. (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Large and Small Purple Train Windows
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"Mike Walsh" <mike_walsh@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:Ht9Ezu.1r2v@lugnet.com... (...) as (...) Altered States Magazine has their coverage of the Toy Fair up and more details of the Knights Bus can bee seen. (URL) set will have 2 purple (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Nano trains
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Who is the owner of this (URL) ? I want to talk to him or her and I want ideas about nano trains, towns... Eduardo (21 years ago, 19-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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(...) why don't you guys just take over WorldLUG. I'll give you the whole architecture. Anybody can develop any module in any language, plus you can syndicate all the content out to people's sites using XML/SOAP/RSS etc. jus email me if you want, (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | COLTC at GATS Cincinnati Feb 21-22
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COLTC will participate at coming weekends' GATS show. The show hours are 11 AM to 5 PM, both days, and will be held at the Cincinnati Convention Center, 6th and Elm streets. We will have a 28 x 10 foot layout, with 3 train loops, and 2 monorail (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.town, lugnet.loc.us.oh) !
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| | 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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| | Re: Idea for a track power pickup for non motored trains...
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Thanks I'll take your advice. I want to use it with DCC, I have DZ143 for my locos but I havent decided which one I will use for cars. Gustav (21 years ago, 13-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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(...) why not just add a few new links/rearranging the front/homepage of LUGnet to make the central portal for the community? Jeff (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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| | Re: LEGOFan.net - central community run hub for all areas of the LEGO community.
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(...) <snip> What exactly does it mean to be "community owned"? Is the site going to be like a WIKI and anyone can change the content? Is there going to be a controlling body (say, for example, of 9 people) who are going to make all the decisions (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.publish, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Idea for a track power pickup for non motored trains...
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(...) With my CN engine I found it necessary to put a capacitor across the leads to smooth out the flicker. It worked quite well. I used the kind of cap that didn't have a pos or neg. it could be used both ways. (URL) This worked pretty good for (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Idea for a track power pickup for non motored trains...
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(...) Yes is a good idea, but I have two problems, one the schools are on vacation (now is summer in the south), and the seconds is a difficult to find a CNC lathe in our technical school here. But I will try Best Regards (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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