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(...) The link I sent is the program I used to work out the diagonal and other layout designs. I have not used the one LAR recommended but will try it out now. As far as other programs I could not say, but you can all ways search Lugnet's newgroups (...) (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Both seem to work only on Windows though. Pity it wasn't written in REALbasic; then I could just bug the author to click the "Mac OS" and "Linux" checkboxes. :) Does anyone happen to know of anything available for the Mac? Thanks, - Joe P.S. (...) (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Dear Thomas, I am quite sure that has to be a wheel from the "FALLER Hit Train", which has been quite popular in the past.... I own a handful of such wheels in black but have never used them, since they are too similar to real LEGO wheels. So (...) (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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I found this one wheel among my LEGO, some of it is quite old. The one on the left is the original large train wheel. What is the one on the right? Is it LEGO? (URL) Best regards Thomas (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) now. If you're a long time user, it works fine, although it's not extensible. New users would be well advised to look into TrackDraw instead... way more features, extensible menus, and the format is XML rather than obscure opaque object dumps (...) (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I'm pretty sure that the panels Pascal put both sides of the bogies are just to make the trucks look good in 8-studs size. (URL) there are no skirts or specific structure in the real engine. In my previous post, I wrote : "The motor is the 12V (...) (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I know alot of you have asked for the MlCad file for my 6-Wide tank car. So I played around with MlCad and whipped something up. I am still a bit of a novice when it comes to MlCad so bare with me if something isnt clear. Each section of the (...) (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Amazing stuff guys! A show on a canal takes the cake, especially with a cool Bombardier O-Train model too! And of course, the great BeaverTails shop! Calum (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) [snip] (...) Hey! Cool engine. I am intrigued by the trucks (bogies). Are those skirts around the trucks or are they some other kind of stucture? Thanks for sharing, Chris (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) There is something very wrong about a train display outdoors in winter in Canada! :-) Seriously, the snow effect is wonderful-- I totally buy it! Having it all out of doors is icicles on the cake;-) Great show, guys! JOHN (20 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) YAY ParLUGment!!! Way to pull out the stops and put on awesome display. The "snow" looks wonderful, and YAY!!! to you all for braving the elements. Pulling off an outdoor display I am sure is no easy feat, but anyone can do it with style, and (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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It has been too long past, and I haven't renamed all the photos, so I just went ahead and did the batch resize in order to get these posted. So, finally, without further ado, here are my photo's from ParLUGment's display on the Rideau Canal in (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX) !!
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(...) Joe, This is a liitle off this threads origianl topic but. I use Train Depot Track Designer (by Matthew Bates) and there are other programs to use. But I like this one. Here is the link (URL) Gallagher (20 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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OK, I'll add to an old thread too... Is there any software available for doing LEGO train layouts? I don't think this would have to be very complex -- just your several different kinds of track pieces, which you can drag around and arrange to see (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Please, Jeroen, don't tell'em they're lazy :-) More seriously, as you have maybe guess, these locomotives are only intended with local operations. The bikes allow drivers to rapidly move around on the railyards. Pascal will take some photos, I (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi Didier, It's pretty cool. Seen the FRET-version before and I wonder why it has a bike on board? (URL) Are the French drivers too lazy to walk to the front? ;-) Thanks for sharing, Jeroen "Didier Enjary" <d.enjary@wanadoo.fr> schreef in bericht (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thanks for that. I would like to point out that the Loco's wheelsets are not my design. The rear set (powered) were done by Christopher Masi while the front set were adapted from David Koudy's design. Chucko (20 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I now this is an old thread but I was doing a search on attaching curved track to base plates and had something to add to this thread. I have a Brickshelf folder that I have not updated with current studies and layouts recently. But I have (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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I'm not thunder-stealing, but I found this lovely dope at BS: (URL) think the loco emphasises John's point that 10-wide makes the wheels look too tiny, but the crummy is excellent. I don't think it looks half-bad at that scale. Side note: IIRC, The (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Ben, Have you (or any 1000steine folks) ever seen one of these? (URL) 1962-65 European catalogs show the 1:87 cars with a red garage and a white base (the base is incorrectly shown as gray in most catalogs, except for the British ones, which (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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