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(...) It's also not hinged to another truck; it only has to rotate around its center point. Being attached to the motor truck, the 3-axle trucks in the GG1 are being pulled a little bit off center as the wheels go into the curve, and I think that's (...) (17 years ago, 18-May-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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(...) Yes, I caught the typo right after I posted... sigh. What I meant to say is that not all the parts came in grey, which is the original color for this locomotive (the original color was actually dark grey, but the 4x4 dome piece doesn't come in (...) (17 years ago, 18-May-07, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thanks, John! Coming from you I consider that high praise. With any luck you'll be able to see it with stickers at Brickworld*. But could the world survive the bringing together of two Polar Express on the same display table? Thanks for the (...) (17 years ago, 18-May-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LDD Model of GG-1 Electric Locomotive - Advice Requested
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(...) My (URL) breakdown crane> has 3 axle trucks using standard LEGO wheelsets, and traverses points just fine, although it does have 4 weight bricks holding it down. ROSCO (17 years ago, 18-May-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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| | Re: LDD Model of GG-1 Electric Locomotive - Advice Requested
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(...) A brief update ... I got it built a while ago but only today tried putting it on the tracks. Bad news, I'm afraid. To make it work on LEGO curves, you need to remove the 4x6 tile with technic peg from the 3-axle trucks and add some tiles (...) (17 years ago, 18-May-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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(...) [...] (...) Pretty nifty indeed. But yellow? I'll assume that this (...) was supposed to mean that all of the parts that you needed came in yellow, so that's the color you chose? Mmmm.... tequila.... Chris (17 years ago, 17-May-07, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) It's another Tequila sunrise! No, wait, this is the first one! Wow, that's as impressive a MOC as it is brightly colored, Tony! You've captured the streamlined twenties look very well-- nice and clean, and well-rounded. It looks fast just (...) (17 years ago, 17-May-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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In lugnet.trains, Benn Coifman wrote: <snippage> (...) Good work, Benn! I had wanted to do the same thing with my Huskey Stacks, but I was deterred by the cumbersome LEGO lighting. I think I'll just stick with my hidden light trick on my Bethgon:-) (...) (17 years ago, 17-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Who has made LDD truck/bogie designs?
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I know that people have come up with some creative truck/bogie designs for their rolling stock. So maybe we could collect a bunch of them so that builders could choose from a variety of designs. I thought of this because I was considering updating (...) (17 years ago, 17-May-07, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I like this idea - it adds a nice bit of realism to modern train consists! Too bad Lego lighting wasn't smaller, but for what you had to work with, vool job for sure! And I just saw a History Channel show on trains and they said that trainmen (...) (17 years ago, 17-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Thanks! I love Flickr, it's really helped the building process when it comes to things like these. There aren't too many shopes that carry the 4x4 dome piece I used around, but they are there. (URL) Thanks for the reply! --Tony (17 years ago, 17-May-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) Thanks! The stickers I intend to add won't do much to change the overall look, they'll mainly just be adding text too small to have been created through LEGO means. I had some reservations with the color scheme, but it was different so I went (...) (17 years ago, 17-May-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Thanks! It helps that I gave up and spent the money on a good camera and a good lighting set up, after years of trial and error trying to make what little I had on hand work. This locomotive was a fun build, but a real pain to photograph given (...) (17 years ago, 17-May-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(URL) FRED- Flashing Rear End Device (URL) Full Gallery> (once moderated) Inspired by one of John Neil's hopper cars with an integrated FRED, I set out to build my own for the double stacks. It took me a while to actually get one of the smaller (...) (17 years ago, 17-May-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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Nicely done Tony. I snuck in a few peeks on the Flickr page last week, and saw that it was really coming together. Turned out great. The cow-catcher came out very well using that method. I'm still dabbling with my Hudson streamline concepts... I (...) (17 years ago, 16-May-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Great! Creates this nice envious 'want THAT too...'-feeling inside :-) It is okay to add stickers, but already not necessary, since it actually looks fully developed. Also the colour scheme is ok, it reminds a little bit of a comic style. (...) (17 years ago, 16-May-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) ... Hi, I'm guilty of never finding time to post feedback. Be assured that, with or without stickers, I greatly appreciate the originality of your trains MOCs and the care you take to present them to us through photos of quality. Didier (17 years ago, 16-May-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | The Tequila Sunrise
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Here's my latest steam engine I've been working on. It's lacking stickers, but someday I'll find a printer that can print decent stickers from home. Till then I'll have to wait till I can find the time to borrow the use of my father's printer. (2 (...) (17 years ago, 16-May-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Kuranda Scenic Railway v2
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(...) It looks damn close to the original and I like the engine compartment detailing :) It looks to me like it is backwards but I'm used to some of the older UK stock that is controlled from the back. (17 years ago, 15-May-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Upcoming Train Show and LUG Meeting
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To all, ULUG will be having our monthly meeting at the Scout Jamborall where we will be displaying our train layout. The layout will run from Saturday May 19th at 9 am to 3 pm. The directions are as follow: Weber County Fairgrounds in Ogden, Utah. (...) (17 years ago, 15-May-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.ulug)
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| | Kuranda Scenic Railway v2
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(...) --snip-- (...) (2 URLs) BS> (URL) Flickr> I finally got the pieces together to build the loco in the parent post (and most of one wagon). Since I'm more experienced now than I was a year and a half ago I've made a number of small changes but (...) (17 years ago, 15-May-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | Re: NedTrain 700 class shunter
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(...) Hey, Tim. Great loco! The lime color scheme is very nice. My only complaint would be the lime slopes. It looks, to me, from the prototype, that the sides are flat. Would it be possible to use tiles instead? Or are you just trying to show off (...) (17 years ago, 12-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Thanks for the suggestion, Mat. I'm going to pic up some waterslide decals at the hobby shop later so I'll make sure to get some brass rod while I am there. I came up with a solution for the hand rails on the rear of the cab, (URL) here> it (...) (17 years ago, 12-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) I think you should have used dark green... I'm glad you got it built after I distracted you. I'm not 100% convinced by some of the details, but its still so much better than I could could do I'm not going to complain. The slopes to give detail (...) (17 years ago, 11-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) I can't believe you used bley on that one. It totally clashes with all the warm colors. Jeff (17 years ago, 11-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Thanks. (...) Definitely a 6 ;) I think its maximum width is probably a bit over 7 studs at the top of the siderails. Also... I forgot to link in the first post to the (URL) prototype>. Tim (17 years ago, 11-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Looks very good! ...for a train ; ) the angles and colours are both very well chosen and the overall effect is very pleasing on the eye! God Bless, Nathan Now is this a 6 wide or 8 wide... ; ) (URL) (17 years ago, 11-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(2 URLs) BS> (URL) Flickr> Hi guys, Decided to have a play with a NedTrain 700 class as I liked the colours and loved the device on the front. I took a little artistic license with the side doors to make them a bit more clear and also had to change (...) (17 years ago, 11-May-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | Re: Reply from Chris Di MasiRe: Hobby Train & 9V motor
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(...) Chris, Thanks for the reply explaining what has happened. That was very helpful. I think the Hobby Trains are great - it would be nice to see other designs/LDD files using the same parts. David (17 years ago, 10-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Ed, On a similar note, if you ever get requests for any upstate New York events that might need manpower, let me know. Though I'm a NELUGer (NELUGite?), I'm probably as close to New York as I am to most of the NELUG events (I'm in southwestern (...) (17 years ago, 8-May-07, to lugnet.loc.us.ny, lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I believe I was in contact with Jim before this event, and LUCNY couldn't get the manpower to staff it that weekend. The museum is a great venue, and I live only a half-hour or so away from it, but most of our members are over 2 hours away, (...) (17 years ago, 8-May-07, to lugnet.loc.us.ny, lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Reply from Chris Di MasiRe: Hobby Train & 9V motor
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(...) Paul, I don't think any of your posts have been too critical. Critically evaluating a set is great. Honestly, I feel badly that two of my designs that went out won't quite work with a motor. On the other hand, when I built my trolleycar the (...) (17 years ago, 6-May-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | GG1 10183 Alternate Found on Brickshelf
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Brickshelf user jmcollaco's (URL) gallery> has instructions for a GG1 made only with the parts from a single 10183 set. I built it today and can say it's a great model that adds even more value to the 10183 set. Here's a pic: (URL) I came up with a (...) (17 years ago, 6-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Reply from Chris Di MasiRe: Hobby Train & 9V motor
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(...) --snip-- Hi Tim and Chris, Thanks for the explanations, I suspected these were the type of complexities you guys had to deal with in bringing about this ultimately great set. In retrospect I hope my post didn't sound too critical. Really the (...) (17 years ago, 6-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Reply from Chris Di Masi Re: Hobby Train & 9V motor
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And that should be Chris Masi... not Chris Di Masi. Sorry, Chris. Tim (17 years ago, 5-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Reply from Chris Di MasiRe: Hobby Train & 9V motor
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--snip-- Chris has asked me to post the following as he's having troubles posting to lugnet at the moment Paul and David, Yes, the models were tweaked after they were submitted by the LEGO fans. Most of the tweaks involved removing unsupported (...) (17 years ago, 5-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) I don't think I'm giving anything away to say that it was the latter but not for that reason. The renders are from earlyish last year, the final models are from much more recently. (...) That is most likely an 'illegal build' technique that (...) (17 years ago, 5-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Haven't gotten to that model yet but, for a less drastic example, (URL) #05> (one of my favorites) does require a tweak to add a motor because the 2x6 plate on the base blocks the hole for the motor pin. Easy enough to fix with the left over (...) (17 years ago, 5-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Hobby Train & 9V motor
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I have tried to fit the 9V motor to the Hobby Train Tram. The tram has 2 bogies on 8 studs long, the other 9 studs long. The picture shows the motor, which is 10 studs long, replacing the 8 stud bogie. Therefore the "buffers" have to extend 1 stud (...) (17 years ago, 5-May-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: danish trains for the danish train museum
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In lugnet.trains, Tim David wrote: SNIP (...) Yeah, that IC3 should have been IR4.! sorry. Tim (17 years ago, 4-May-07, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) To quote the other Tim several times. "wow, wow, wow" I can't remember the last time I saw such an impressive collection of consistently great trains (and boat!) Somehow you have also managed to get a feeling of 'bulk' with them, I at first (...) (17 years ago, 4-May-07, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Wow. I like them a lot. (URL) This train> is a masterpiece of construction. I really can't remember seeing better SNOT imagery. The rest are all excellent. Please keep it up, Tim (17 years ago, 3-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | danish trains for the danish train museum
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Hello! After a break from building I have been working on some danish trains the last few months. I have them right now for exibition at the danish train museum together with my railferry. All the trains are danish from an old steamtrain to the (...) (17 years ago, 3-May-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 6-wide Canadian Pacific GE ES44AC
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(...) Chris, After building your Prime Mover from the PDF I started in on the loco. I just finished building the loco from the PDF. It was only a little harder than one of James' designs. I had to look up one part in peeron. Also with subassy F (...) (17 years ago, 3-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Northern Pacific SW1200
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(...) The build looks great, and big too. (...) I've used brass rod from a hobby shop. Mat (17 years ago, 3-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Penobscot Building NMRA 2007 preview
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(...) Jonathan, thanks for the comments. It means a lot comming from you. I more or less like how the Penobscot turned out but it is not as detailed as my previous skyscraper the David Stott building. Of course if you look at the real Penobscot vs (...) (17 years ago, 3-May-07, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Northern Pacific SW1200
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(...) Thanks, Benn. (URL) a picture of the rear>. I choose not to have the handrails at an angle since I felt that it couldn't be properly done. If you can't tell, the rear was inspired in part by Tim Gould's (URL) VO-660>. I've been trying to (...) (17 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | ULUG Train Show from <cough> <cough> March
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To all, Well, ULUG had a great train show in March. I am extremely late getting the pictures posted. I forgot my camera and had to use a family members and then we had a baby ... ULUG has made some really great strides from show-to-show. We have (...) (17 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.org.us.ulug, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Re: Northern Pacific SW1200
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(...) I cheated to flatten the top of the similar handrails on the VO660 buy putting a paperclip inside the flex tube. Tim (17 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Northern Pacific SW1200
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(...) Pretty slick! Very good detail all around and clever tricks abound. I like the spark arresters on the stacks. The rear of the cab looks well detailed, do you have a photo of the rear when it is all together too? The only suggestion I have is (...) (17 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LDD Model of GG-1 Electric Locomotive - Advice Requested
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(...) I wonder if it might be possible to pivot where the two trucks join together. We could have an opening for the pin on the motor trucks to move around in, like you have done with the 3-axle trucks. And instead of the half-pin currently used, (...) (17 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Penobscot Building NMRA 2007 preview
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(...) Excellent! Greatly looking forward to seeing this and the others in person! Just stunning. Best, Jonathan (17 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: LDD Model of GG-1 Electric Locomotive - Advice Requested
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(...) NOW you tell me :-) Actually I managed to get it built, but it wasn't easy. (...) That doesn't seem to help, as I did a fresh install of the program last night just for this - my wife's Mac didn't have it installed. (...) OK, I will do that (...) (17 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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| | Re: LDD Model of GG-1 Electric Locomotive - Advice Requested
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(...) Glad that you ordered the GG1! This isn't the first complaint about instructions generation in LDD, unfortunately. I would suggest trying the different instructions modes (there's one for vehicles, buildings, and Technic) to see if you have (...) (17 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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| | Re: Dutch Koploper
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(...) Hi, Paul. I remember seeing the pilot version at GTE and it was fantastic! Do you have any pictures of the entire train? I would love to see the whole thing. I hope that I can attend NMRA 2007 to see them in person. Or perhaps you could bring (...) (17 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Penobscot Building NMRA 2007 preview
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WOW She came out fantastic!Can't wait to see it on the layout!Chris MichLTC (...) (17 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: LDD Model of GG-1 Electric Locomotive - Advice Requested
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(...) Well it has arrived! I downloaded the instructions from legofactory.com and man do they stink! I don't think it is any reflection on the design - the software just isn't doing a very good job of coming up with the steps for creating this (...) (17 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Early 1900's electric tramway
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(URL) Hello, I'm currently working on a 1900's city model (no photo) and built a tramway for that set. But it's too large for the street size?! So I built a smaller one and now the big one is no more usefull. So I could just put it in my stock boxes (...) (17 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Northern Pacific SW1200
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(...) Neat! I really like the sideways-mounted black "car doors" along the sides. Nice details! -Paul D. (17 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | AMCP display at BRICKWORLD 2007
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(URL) Listen up Mecha heads, town folks, and all else. Debuting at <https://registratio...ckworld.us (URL) will the first of many AMCP –Apocalyptic Mecha City Projects. What is the AMCP? The AMCP is a large-scale modular city display with a war-torn (...) (17 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.build.military, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.trains, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Northern Pacific SW1200
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(...) Nice work, Matt. The front light is very clever. Tim (17 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Northern Pacific SW1200
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A while ago Benn Coifman posted a (URL) NP GP9> and I thought it would be cool to have another Northern Pacific loco running around the COLTC layout. I also made it in the NP livery because I had lots of leftover black bricks from my hopper cars (...) (17 years ago, 29-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Penobscot Building NMRA 2007 preview
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(...) Dang Jim, you fooled me again. I thought that was a picture of the real building! Spencer (17 years ago, 29-Apr-07, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Penobscot Building NMRA 2007 preview
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Here is a photo of my Penobscot Building which will make its debut at the NMRA National Train Show this July in Detroit, Michigan. (URL) The rest of the pictures (it is about 99% finished): (URL) Never heard of the Penobscot Building? Well it was (...) (17 years ago, 28-Apr-07, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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| | Re: LDD PRR T1 #6110
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(...) Very nice work. I had not seen that. Thanks for linking the pics. It definitely helps show the details of the PRR T1, and gives me more ideas for improvements to my Lego® version once I go to build it. (17 years ago, 28-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: LDD PRR T1 #6110
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(...) How about Ed Wooding's version? Although not in Lego, it is a absolute work of art... (URL) Powell (17 years ago, 28-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | LDD PRR T1 #6110
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For my next LDD MOC, I built a PRR T1 #6110 (4-4-4-4 duplex-drive steam locomotive). I've uploaded it to the Lego® Factory, so once it is approved you can take a closer look. My new BBB wheels arrived in the mail today, so this may be the one that I (...) (17 years ago, 27-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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| | German train. BR103.
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Please, have a look at the new version of BR103. (URL) (17 years ago, 25-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: JR C58-363 Paleo
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(...) A very nice piece of engineering! As usual, I love the details. As someone already noticed on Flickr, the two "shields" on the front seem to be a bit too thick, although I am aware this might be as best as it can get without ruining other (...) (17 years ago, 24-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: ILTCO email down?
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(...) It is fixed now. The ILTCO site had a e-mail change a while back where all of the addresses had to be specifically registered as opposed to using a catch all like we had done in the past. The change helped slow the amount of spam sent to ILTCO (...) (17 years ago, 24-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | ILTCO email down?
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I tried to email ILTCO from their main webpage, which sends emails to feedback@ but my email came back 'Delivery has failed:SMTP server has rejected address' and I have no idea what that means. Is their email not working?? I know this isn't really (...) (17 years ago, 24-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LDD slug models
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Just a follow-up to add my latest incarnation of the yard slug, this time in Canadian National colors. You see them working in tandem a lot with EMD GP road-switchers in CN'S larger sorting yards. (URL) I've added a version that is LEGO's standard (...) (17 years ago, 23-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: LDD - MOC Steam Engine inspired by Streamlined Hudson
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After some work this weekend, my LDD 'Streamlined Hudson' has improved quite a bit. I scrapped the first one and created another MOC's with two stylings; a Dreyfuss and the the Empire State Express. The Empire State Express is the one that I am most (...) (17 years ago, 22-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: monorail maintenance?
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(...) Monorail trains just run slow. Just how slow depends on your perspective. I just ran two sets of monorail at the NASM (National Air and Space Museum) yesterday. The new monorail set I just acquired last weekend seemed to move a bit faster than (...) (17 years ago, 22-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Controlling trains with NXT?
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(...) Indeed, Steve Hassenplug & I did exactly this at BrickFest 2005 with the GBC trains - we had two trains running around a single loops, but in this case used four isolated sections so that each side fo the loop was under the complete control of (...) (17 years ago, 22-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Dutch Koploper
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After a (too) long hiatus of train building, I am back. I build the Dutch "Koploper". (URL) I build 4 head (=engine) sections, and 4 passenger cars, I will take it to NMRA 2007 for its inaugural run. A pilot version ran at the GTE Columbus show, but (...) (17 years ago, 22-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | JR C58-363 Paleo
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(5 URLs) BS> (when modded) (URL) Flickr> Hi all, After reading Ben's article about building steam trains I decided to try out my new BBB wheels and build one in real life (thus making sure it could run around curves). I'd seen a few Japanese (...) (17 years ago, 22-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.loc.jp, FTX) !
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(...) Block control was fairly common on model train layouts before DCC and other digital solutions became available. If you do a google search for "block control" you should find a few references. Yours is a variant of that. It works, but as you (...) (17 years ago, 22-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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As some of you are probably aware, there are people who use DCC controls that allow them to operate two trains independantly on the same stretch of track. This system, however, requires that you hack open motor bogeys to install the DCC control (...) (17 years ago, 21-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Firstly, how heavy is your train? You've got a battery-powered, gear-driven drive system that doesn't run very fast under the best conditions, so unless you strip it down to the bare essentials (one sled, one motor, one battery box, and just (...) (17 years ago, 22-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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I'm coming into the monorail world late and have been acquiring track and parts on Bricklink. I have two motors and both seem to run very slowly. They really seem to labor going up-hill. I haven't run the engines enough to believe I might have burnt (...) (17 years ago, 22-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: LDD - MOC Steam Engine inspired by Streamlined Hudson
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--snip-- (...) --snip-- Hi Ted, Just a quick word of warning... I've never tested this one in real life so there's not guarantee the solution I have there works. It seemed to work out in CAD but real life is the ultimate decider. Tim (17 years ago, 20-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Tony - Thanks for all the great info! (...) That will be #1 on my to-do list... Very nice. (...) I had been digging around the internet, but had not come across Ben's presentation yet. Very, very helpful and great building strategies. Awesome MOC's (...) (17 years ago, 20-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Well, I'm no train expert, I only started building train MOCs a little over a year ago, but I'll be happy to share my opinions. And the number one thing you should do, in my opinion, is visit (URL). Ben Fleskes, a Lugnet member, sells custom (...) (17 years ago, 20-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Thank you. That is exactly what I was going for. Unfortunately, I noticed after I'd posted the pictures that the "bricked in" part should have gone one course higher. Oops! (...) Thanks. I find they really give it an industial look. (...) (...) (17 years ago, 20-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Not yet, but I suppose they should be. Basicly, track should be up one plate, ballasted, and 4 studs in from the edge of the base plates, with 8 studs of separation between tracks. We also have curved track clearance standards, but I'm not (...) (17 years ago, 20-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) I think you did a nice job with this. I really like the back of it where you have the rolling garage door. It makes it look like there was once a taller door for the engine but then they reconfigured it. You've really captured that look with (...) (17 years ago, 20-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Very nice. I have not taken my engine shed out of the box yet but I will keep your modifications in mind when I do. You mentioned club standards for layouts but I couldn't find any on the NOVALUG website. Are they online? (URL) VicLUG> is hoping to (...) (17 years ago, 20-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(URL) This is an (URL) updated version> of the Lego 10027 Engine Shed. I raised the track 1 plate to comform with (URL) our club> standards, which allowed space for a pit. I also raised the building by one brick. Those door arches used to snag (...) (17 years ago, 20-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) I think feedback on either would be helpful. I'm just starting up my parts collection again as AFOL, so my part availability outside is almost as limited as LDD. Any good recomendations though, and I could track it down in one of the brick (...) (17 years ago, 20-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Not bad, not bad at all. Considering you were working from a limited palette, I agree you were able to capture the feel of a streamlined steam engine. I especially like your solution to the cow catcher. I really can't comment on how to improve (...) (17 years ago, 20-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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I just finished my first MOC using LDD 2.0 of a steam engine inspired by a 'Streamlined Hudson'. I took some artistic liberties due to the limited part/color selection in LDD (especially on the blue side covers around the cab), but I think it still (...) (17 years ago, 20-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) I've just uploaded LDraw files for the cars to BS too. Benn (17 years ago, 19-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Blacksmith Shop details: (URL) carriages for the Santa Fe train were also an AFOL design, in this case James Mathis: (URL) they didn't list it as a 'My-Own-Creation'. The Blacksmith Shop was just one of several sets Dan put together himself (...) (17 years ago, 18-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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Hi all, After LEGO 'published' the Blacksmith set by Dan as the first in their MOC series, none have followed. Do you know why they only published one MOC in their series? Also, was it 2001 when they published this set? And was the price 39,99$? (...) (17 years ago, 18-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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In lugnet.trains, Matija Puzar wrote: <snip> (URL) it works>! I do apologise for the extremely bad quality, I will try to (...) That's fantastic!!! K, I'm sooooo doing this to my little shunter! Great job! Dave K (17 years ago, 17-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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I just wanted to share my experiences with this decoder, before someone goes out and buys a bunch of them and gets disappointed. So, I bought it as an additional decoder for my decoupler1 since it is small, simple, relatively cheap (8GBP), and can (...) (17 years ago, 17-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) It's definitely not Mac specific. I know someone using a PC who's had the problem too. Tim (17 years ago, 17-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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(...) Oh yeah, no problem about calling me Jason. It happens a lot in real life to me, too. I guess it could be a Mac-specific bug. If you know of any other Mac LDD users (or have a spare Mac box around), perhaps they could download this model and (...) (17 years ago, 17-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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Welcome aboard! I'm not a train..or even town fan...but it's always great to see new builders, especially when they enter with a very nice MOC! Keep up the great work and God Bless, Nathan (URL) (17 years ago, 17-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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