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(...) It's too late for this particular motor to determine whether it ran slightly faster or slightly slower than the trailing motor. If the trailing motor was slightly faster than the leading motor, it would have pushed the leading motor harder (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains)
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So... through NELUG, I have been involved in the Millyard project in the SEE Science Center in Manchester, NH. The other day, we took one of the engines off the track, and removed it's dead motor. The motor had died because the springs had failed (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: M>ltc Shows Mount Freedom at Brickvention.
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(...) That gives a really good basis for seeing how the parts fit together. Even when someone takes an "overall" photo, I usually can't see what's going on. It also helps show the process of planning and coordination that went into the layout. The (...) (18 years ago, 17-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(Oct 2005) As this was the last show for the layout, it will all be dismantled to build next years layout, in fact a fair bit was dismantled last night. Our 2006 layout will have 3 loops on 2 different levels, 2 bridges, and lots of other goodies, (...) (18 years ago, 16-Jun-06, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org.mltc, FTX)
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For Immediate Release Contact: Russell Clark rclark@telis.org 408.605.5412 (cell) SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CA - The Bay Area LEGO Train Club (BayLTC) is pleased to announce that we will be displaying at "Transportation in the Valley" at the Museum on (...) (18 years ago, 15-Jun-06, to lugnet.org.us.baylug, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: Bloomin' 9V Track
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"Maggie Cambron" <mcambron@pacbell.net> wrote in message news:J0CzL5.1Asq@lugnet.com... (...) I have seen stuff like that on some of my personal track. I live in a high humidity area (North Carolina) and attributed it to that. Have you tried (...) (18 years ago, 14-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| | Save 9V Trains entry - how many more LDD hoppers do we need, anyway?
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You may have seen my dark grey hoppers before. They're a two-axle design. They are based on a real prototype, though I was inspired to do these after seeing some big ones at Legoland Windsor: (URL) Grey Hopper>> Anyway, I tried doing this in LDD and (...) (18 years ago, 13-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | Re: Latest track features and layout module developments
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(...) OK, very good information. Thanks. (...) That is very good indeed. (...) Thanks, Dave (...) (18 years ago, 13-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yes, it's 8mm:1ft scale. There aren't many people building to that scale with LEGO though, as 6-wide trains remain popular and require fewer bricks, with 8-wide attracting a reasonable following. My trains end up 8+ wide for British (...) (18 years ago, 12-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Very interesting. Thanks to the fact that for 4 or so years I've been studying a foreign language: "British model railway terminology", I actually understood your post! Ha ha! Anyway, I'm totally new to Lego 9V trains, but have been doing some (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains)
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Here are pictures of LEGO representations of the TPWS and AWS train protection systems used in the UK, which use equipment mounted between the rails: (2 URLs) both cases I've used translucent orange wands, in the absence of opaque ones, to represent (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: LDD How to use?
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(...) Hi Ludo, See (URL) here>. Tim (18 years ago, 10-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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Hi all, I'll see that some among you are able to create a train with LDD for upload and eventually order one. Now i'm also trying to create a model with LDD, witch i have allreddy build, but i can't mannage to build even a simple bogie! I miss the (...) (18 years ago, 10-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Two more Factory model... hoppers
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(...) [...] (...) I think I figured out the boxcar problem. I tried submitting my box car one more time, and this time I called it "Old Boxcar". It is now available in the gallery. I suspect that it got rejected because I named it "Millyard Boxcar". (...) (18 years ago, 9-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Train MOCs search at LEGO Factory-- Favourites
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(...) Hi Jason, I assume this is the same UR as (URL) like his stuff although it often seems to be unbuildable but he's got a lot of great ideas and models. Tim (18 years ago, 9-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Train MOCs search at LEGO Factory-- Favourites
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(...) I spoke too soon! Who is 'UR59'? (URL) at these: (URL) make my processor fan sing a bit, and they may be 8-wide too, but there's a lot gone into them! Jason R (18 years ago, 9-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Train MOCs search at LEGO Factory-- Favourites
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(...) I don't see a huge improvement. If you look, all the galleries have 12 pages. They each show the most recent 200 entries in the category. I don't know what the churn rate is, but it might be worth keeping an eye on your one that's just shown (...) (18 years ago, 8-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Two more Factory model... hoppers
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(...) Eric, Can you check with your LF contacts (or maybe you already know) what the shelf life is of something uploaded but not submitted to the gallery? For example, when I click on the check price button in LDD it uploads my model and brings me (...) (18 years ago, 8-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Train MOCs search at LEGO Factory-- Favourites
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I was able to go to the LEGO Factory web page and select the "Search Creations, By model category: Trains". This (URL) 12 pages of trains: 18 MOCs per page. I've found that clicking on the thumbnail image of the MOC brings up a pop-up window that (...) (18 years ago, 8-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Two more Factory model... hoppers
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(...) FYI, I heard back from my LF contact and it appears 1x1 black plates are available again. -Eric (18 years ago, 8-Jun-06, to lugnet.trains)
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