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(...) Welcome back Gary! (Willkommen zurück? Willkom wieder?) (20 years ago, 12-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.events.1000steine-land, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) My favorite German word is "SCHADENFREUDE", which translates to "showing happiness over other peoples misfortunes". A good example of schadenfreude is the feeling you get when you find out that greedy corporate executives go to jail for their (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.events.1000steine-land, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) When living there for a few years, "Biergarten", especially when used in a one word sentence ending in a questionmark was always music to my ears. (I was in my dark ages then). "Spielzeugausverkauf" would now be a close second. Paul (20 years ago, 11-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.events.1000steine-land)
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(...) hehe Good point, Tim! My other favorite German word: Ausgezeichnet! (It can only be fully appreciated heard out loud as spoken by a German, though) JOHN (20 years ago, 11-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.events.1000steine-land, FTX)
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(...) Mine was always Augenblick because it was easy to figure out what it meant in high school German class. :-) Maggie C (20 years ago, 11-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.events.1000steine-land, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Does the question even require asking here? -Tim (20 years ago, 11-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.events.1000steine-land)
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I was listening to National Public Radio All Things Considered when a segment was aired that had me laughing outloud. Apparently, in Germany they are holding a contest for the German's Language Most Pleasing Word. Here the story at: (URL) what is (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.events.1000steine-land)
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| | Re: The SPLTC Recreates the Old West
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Mikael, Thanks for your comments about the layout. I do remember seeing you and your family and friends admiring the layout, not once, but twice! Maybe next time we display, you can bring out some of your 8-wide trains to show us, We'd enjoy seeing (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: lime green
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(...) Mark Bellis is actually building one using lime green (see the other branch of the thread) American monstrosities? - yeah too big for their wheels :-P Mind you the loco I linked to is actually Swiss and they have had some pretty big loco's (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains)
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"Tim David" <talltim@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:HyzIDM.1GBL@lugnet.com... (...) green (...) Ah, but to REALLY put your lime green to good use, you need to build a beautiful British Railways Deltic in two tone green: (URL) locomotives, not (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I were fortunate to be able to go over and look at this display with my family and friends. I must say it was really impressive. It later occured to me --- Wow! Everything at or near one single theme! Awesome! My 9 year old boy along with his (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains)
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Bruce, Glad to hear your comments about our latest layout. As Paul has already mentioned, some of our MOCs were built using images of similar items from the internet, as well as real items some of us found in books or remember from having seen in (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Bruce thanks for your comments on the cattle car. I can't take full credit though. Like many MOC's, I built someone's design that i had seen on bricklink and then took it one step further. (...) Paul Thomas SPLTC (...) I will let someone else (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi Ray, This is really a wonderful display. I'm a big fan of the short-lived Western theme, so it's great to see a lot of creations in this vein. My favorite individual creations include: The fire engine: (URL) old hearse waiting for the (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains)
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Jonathan, Thanks for the comments. If memory serves me correct, the builder of this train wagon was modeling it after a whiskey wagon that would have served the local saloons, which we had two on the layout, with the preferred beverage of the old (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.western)
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Tim, Thanks for the comments! When we decided to build a layout for this theme, it did mean that a lot of new building would have to be done. Changing the terrain to tan baseplates in most areas meant not using green roadplates since they wouldn't (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: BF 2004 LTC Container Car Swap Call for Participation
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I am hoping that our club, ParLUGment, will be able to participate in the container swap. There are a couple of our members planning to attend, and I am trying to organize the creation of the containers, now that we've finally decided on a logo for (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)
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(...) On BrickLink lime green plates are available in 1x4 1x6 2x2 2x3 2x4 2x8 6x10 There is also Plate Modified 1x1 with Clip Light and Plate Modified 1 x 2 with Handle - Type 1 , you might be able to use these instead of a 1x2 if you can hide the (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Actually I have seen this before, in fact I travelled to work on one of these this morning! (The real one, not the Lego one!) Its a nice model. The strange thing was when I saw the pics I didn't think of the lime green as being the bright (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jun-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | CANCELLED: Re: LUCNY to display at Day Out With Thomas, Utica, NY June 18-27, 2004
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For various reasons mostly due to the venue, LUCNY will NOT be participating in this event this year. In Lieu of this event, we will be having a local meeting to have some fun and play with our trains. This will likely be a two-day event; details to (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jun-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.lucny, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.ny, lugnet.loc.us.ny.uti, FTX)
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