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(...) I like the steamers. The connecting rods will be a challenge. You could do with BBB blanks for the middle driving wheels. Having done quite a few British trains (pics at (URL) ), I'm branching out into American trains now, and plan to build a (...) (21 years ago, 18-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I think the robotics discussions are often a bit deep, especially about software details. Pneumatics are alive and well! Like you, I've not posted much here for long, just 12 postings last year. When I had just 15 minutes a day online before (...) (21 years ago, 18-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) later, James Mathis (21 years ago, 19-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains)
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Oops, forgot to x-post to others who may appreciate train things... rtlToronto Train Show April 17 - 18th (...) <snip> (...) <snip> (...) Dave K (21 years ago, 19-Apr-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Oh wow, I need to let the caffeine I'm having for breakfast start to work before I try to understand this... Very cool, very clever - and well disguised from the outside of the train. Great job! JohnG, GMLTC (21 years ago, 19-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains)
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hi this is a train with a sliding door: (URL) looking at the train we don't see the door because it looks like an ordinary window. This image shows the mechanism: (URL) uses two special plates to control the door movement. See the detail in this (...) (21 years ago, 19-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Is his system actually pumping water through the pistons, or is he using air pressure from them to push water through tubes? (21 years ago, 19-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) That's pretty neat! It will be interesting to see if there's any deterioration of the pneumatic pumps over time, especially the seals. ROSCO (added .technic) (21 years ago, 18-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) More other online places, if I just look at myself since my start at LUGNET there have been - 1000Steine.de - Lowlug.nl - For many people their own LUG So that IMHO would surely account for a drop in postings. And like we discussed last year, (...) (21 years ago, 18-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi! I have been building two steamers so far: (URL) and: (URL) Hope you like them! Henrik (21 years ago, 18-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi All, Though I've only been posting in .trains for about a year or so, in that time it seems to me that traffic in this group has dropped off somewhat. To confirm my suspicions I went into the archives and determined the number of posts for each (...) (21 years ago, 18-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains)
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Please contact me... I have something for you. (21 years ago, 18-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains)
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Check this one out! About 6 years ago, John Gerlach of the GMLTC had built a fountain that actually pumped water using the technic pneumatic system. Well, this captured the imagination of my then 8 year old son Ross, and he set his mind to building (...) (21 years ago, 17-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX) !
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Hi All, I have been wondering what people have been building with the BBB steam driver wheels... (maybe I missed 'em if they have been posted before) SteveB (21 years ago, 17-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) SNIP (...) First: welcome at Lowlug! THE discussion forum in the Netherlands. Now for the pics: lots of these are mine. So I think I should shed some light on them. A few weeks ago Legoland Billund had it's season-opening, and a group of Dutch (...) (21 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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"Bryan Kinkel" <helpdesk@loseyourmind.com> wrote in message news:Hw9K6J.4G6@lugnet.com... (...) The pictures of the shelves and shelves of LEGO boxes are definitely their vault. Steve Barile showed similar pictures after a visit to LEGO HQ. Frank (21 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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I found this link on the "Lego User Group of the Lowlands" site at (URL) appears that these are some shots from inside some sort of "Vault" or museum at Billund. Photo Albums: (URL) about some Pirates? (URL) like Trains? (URL) forget Town. (URL) (...) (21 years ago, 16-Apr-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Acually having FD in the begining of the abbreviation is rather rare. John you are correct, usually it is LAFD. I volunteer at an exception, FDLT--Fire Department of Liberty Township. And am working on getting my Fire Department of Lego (...) (21 years ago, 15-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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x-posted from .loc.au I would like to announce that the BLTG (Brisbane Lego Train Group) are just about to take part in their 5th Train Show in just over 2 weeks time. The annual Train and Hobby show is being held at the RNA showgrounds on the May (...) (21 years ago, 15-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Ah, yes. My error. (I wish I could say I was trying to be funny). I understand now. All makes sense. (...) Poor would be the operative word... (...) I'd love to see your version of a ladder truck at some point. I am hoping that TLG follows up (...) (21 years ago, 14-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Yes that it is John, you are correct! (...) TDA, Tractor Drawn Apparatus, Tiller, lol Josh (21 years ago, 14-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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Here's a look at a mountain created by Jeramy Spurgeon and me last September. mostly made of burps, plus it has a waterfall. Hope you like it. (URL) has a lot of the features that everyone has been talking about in these post. Brian D (21 years ago, 14-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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(...) lol To even have been confused with them is a high compliment indeed. Thanks! (...) You are either a card (who needs to be dealt with;-) or I was hopelessly inarticulate. What I meant is that the LEGO sticker uses the same acro form as the New (...) (21 years ago, 13-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) I was checking this out on Brickshelf. At first, I thought it was from one of the exceptional builders you mention, but then looked and thought "It's bigger than usual" :o) Very nice. You have some great detail there. Nice SNOT John. Stickers (...) (21 years ago, 13-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) I'd also suggest more trans-clear/blue brick as well. And just so you all know, it took me about 5+ times to get both of the pond fed watter falls the way that I liked them on both of mountains that I have done. It's not an easy thing to do, (...) (21 years ago, 13-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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"Rob Hendrix" <rhendrix@cei.net> wrote in message news:Hw49E2.1pwn@lugnet.com... (...) Bueller? Bueller? As I told Rob on IM last night, I recall discussion where someone in France actual received the source code from Matthew Bates a number of (...) (21 years ago, 13-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) of (...) I have (...) That was one thing I liked about my coastal cliff scene. The tunnels really do travel through something impassible. (...) mountain. (...) cleft (...) makes (...) of (...) Definitely. I like the use of trans light blue, (...) (21 years ago, 13-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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Track Designer source code??? Anyone??? (21 years ago, 13-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) I agree with other posters about the nice things about your mountain, as well as the not so nice things. Here's the biggie... shape and size Railroads avoid mountains like the plague as they are expensive to get over around or through. (for (...) (21 years ago, 13-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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(...) Thanks! And no bricks were harmed in the making :P Good to see you on the boards again! -- Thomas Main thomasmain@myrealbox.com (21 years ago, 13-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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(...) <snip> (...) <snip> (...) Thanks. This is what I liked best about it too!! (...) Yep. Where do creeks start from - a crack in a rock? (...) It's blue. (...) Space constraints - but you're right, it looks contrived that way. (...) Definately. (...) (21 years ago, 13-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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(...) You're alive!! How have you been? -Tim XFUT -> .people (21 years ago, 13-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.people)
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(...) Very nice, thanx for sharing! This shows a good use of Bionicle parts in the 'real lego world' ;-P Now you only have to collect some more of these knee-caps to create a respectable length coal train, and due to the microscale, you don't needs (...) (21 years ago, 13-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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(...) Nice job! Rich (21 years ago, 13-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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(...) I believe a full sized motor was used, and I believe it was MichLTC's own Steve Ringe at the meeting before last. There may have been others though. (21 years ago, 13-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Just another thought or two... I tried running a non-DCC locomotive (i.e. one with a regular train motor :-) by hooking the RC receiver's output directly to the track. You get 3 speeds forward and reverse: real slow, medium, and full speed. No doubt (...) (21 years ago, 13-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Having recently acquired the 8376 Hot Flame RC Car... [LEGOSet 8376] ...it didn't take too long before I got to thinking about how this bit of gadgetry might be useful in the train environment. :-) So, here's the idea: (URL) Yep, that's a micromotor (...) (21 years ago, 13-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Hi, This is my first venture into trains. When I saw the new Bionicles, I imidiately thought of the knee-caps as small coal waggons from the old Welsh coalmining trains. I've made a small attempt at making this into a micro-scale coal-train (1 wide (...) (21 years ago, 12-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic.bionicle) !
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"Thomas Main" <thomasmain@myrealbox.com> wrote in message news:Hw1E5M.10F@lugnet.com... (...) style for (...) so I (...) for that (...) more (...) Easy access to rear in case of a derailment. Well assembled. Great color mixing. Lots of detail. (...) (21 years ago, 12-Apr-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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There is a great new set out, (URL) 4857> that features an EMS vehicle with some wicked cool stickers bearing the acro FDLL, as the New York Fire Departments do (I thought it was so cool that I even printed some FDLL t-shirts, but more on those (...) (21 years ago, 12-Apr-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.town, FTX)
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