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Matija, any updates on your train automation program? Keep us updated. Thanks. Brian (...) (16 years ago, 26-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: New Buffers appear in LDD.
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(...) That's a cool idea, Dean! I hadn't thought of that possibility. It seems like that sort of system would have backward-compatibility issues with the past generation of magnetic couplers, though. If you brought a new mag coupler in contact with (...) (16 years ago, 25-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New Buffers appear in LDD.
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(...) Could they have North on the left, and south on the right, thus when two come together, each pole would be up against its opposite? This is the only way I can see it working, but I'm not sure what their side on strength would be. (16 years ago, 25-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New Buffers appear in LDD.
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(...) At present, it looks like you can build models using these new buffers, but you cannot yet order them. Such models lead to an "out of stock" message on the LEGO Factory website. This isn't too surprising, given that these parts are not (...) (16 years ago, 23-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Work In Progress - #425 and my SNOTty boiler
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(...) Thanks much! I actually had considered your solution while I was working on designing my boiler, I used your similarly snotted boiler as inspiration. The problem I run into is that my boiler isn't all one color, so in order to use your (...) (16 years ago, 22-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | New Buffers appear in LDD.
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I have uploaded several images of the new Buffers as they appear in LDD on the Trains-n-Town web site along with a story and discussion thread. These are the same Buffers that briefly appeared in PAB. The nice thing about LDD is you can zoom in and (...) (16 years ago, 22-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Work In Progress - #425 and my SNOTty boiler
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(...) Thanks much! I think if I ever do a non-streamlined 8-wide steamer in the future, I'll have a hard time decided between this cheese slope technique and the curved half arch. I like the curved half arch look better, but last I checked they were (...) (16 years ago, 22-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | Re: Work In Progress - #425 and my SNOTty boiler
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(...) Thanks much! To be honest it didn't cost quite the fortune some may think. It was pricey, but it only cost me about $15 for all the cheese slopes I purchased, and I didn't use them all. I've used half cylinders before on my streamlined (...) (16 years ago, 22-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | Sneak Peek for the NMRA show
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(URL) This is part of a train I'm building for the NMRA show in SoCal this year (easy to guess which one). So far I have 4 cars completed (other then decals), and 4 that need the trucks completed. I better get started on the engine. The idea for (...) (16 years ago, 21-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Work In Progress - #425 and my SNOTty boiler
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(...) ... (...) ... (...) Very nice. I saw your comment on flickr about the running boards. You might want to try what I did on my similarly snotted boiler. I used white for the running boards, but then right above I used 1x2x1 panels instead of (...) (16 years ago, 21-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | Re: 9v Speed regulator
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(...) Today I've tried the one that comes with my Panasonic DECT home phone, and it works OK, it has the same voltage and jack than the original LEGO provides. (16 years ago, 20-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 9v Speed regulator
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(...) I stopped using the LEGO power supply a long time ago. I use one similar to that shown below: (URL) has numerous connection pins and you can change the voltage. I let children operate the trains and I turn the voltage down until the trains go (...) (16 years ago, 20-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) If I were to get the UK version, all I would need to get would be a pin converter to work with Australian sockets - is that correct? We have 240v, and if I understand correctly, that is all that is needed for it to work. (16 years ago, 20-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) The LEGO power supplies all produce AC current, while most interchangable power supplies that you'll find produce DC current. I know this can overload and burn out the bridge rectifiers on the RCX 1.0, but I don't know if it'll be problematic (...) (16 years ago, 19-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 9v Speed regulator
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(...) Well... maybe. By that I mean that the LEGO train transformer (as well as the RCX and NXT), are supposed to be supplied with 9-12 V *AC* current. Most little wal transformers you see supply *DC* voltage. Note that a lot of folks have used DC (...) (16 years ago, 19-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Double articulated locomotive
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(...) As promised I took more pictures of this locomotive in a curve and details of the articulation. Yes I know I used some parts that didn't exist back in the seventies... (2 URLs) Click for more pictures>. Niels (16 years ago, 19-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) You have to make sure that the plug matches. If it does, It will work. Regards. (16 years ago, 19-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains)
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| | wanted: defective 12v motors
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If you have a defective 12v train motor (modern kind, as in 7740 or 7750), I'd like to buy it. Send me an e-mail if you have one to offer. Thanks! (16 years ago, 19-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains)
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If I went to Radio Shack or the likes and picked up a 9v power supply, will this work with the speed regulator? (16 years ago, 19-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Work In Progress - #425 and my SNOTty boiler
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(...) I have to say that is really slick :) I think I'll have to use taht idea at some point. Thanks for sharing. (16 years ago, 18-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim)
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| | Re: Work In Progress - #425 and my SNOTty boiler
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(...) It is indeed! It's looking great. I used a very similar technique for a German BR-52 locomotive. Where you used 1-stud width of tile I used two, so my boiler came out to be 6-wide. Based on your design it looks like you might have discovered (...) (16 years ago, 19-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | Re: Work In Progress - #425 and my SNOTty boiler
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(...) Well, it has to be said, and I don't care who it offends. Altogether now... "What... ...a friend we have in chee-sers" Jason R (16 years ago, 18-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | Re: Work In Progress - #425 and my SNOTty boiler
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(...) Really nice work Anthony must have cost you a fortune in cheesebricks but the final effect is really good, I'm probably more inclined to use half cylinders and stay 6 wide but this look great,I must admit though I always admire Ben Beneke's 7 (...) (16 years ago, 18-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | Work In Progress - #425 and my SNOTty boiler
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I wasn't going to post this, but after John Neal complained (and accurately so) that it was too quiet in Lugnet.trains, I decided to go ahead. As some may remember from the thread concerning my ten wheeler steam engine "Lady", I was considering (...) (16 years ago, 17-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | Re: 12v train power
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(...) Frank, good info, thanks! would you kindly read the bottom of your 7864, does it specify 240V? Mine says 220V 50/60Hz. if you can confirm that I will acquire a UK one. thanks so much! (16 years ago, 17-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains)
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| | My rendition of the QR 2400 Class diesel engine
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(URL) is still a work in progress. Pretty much a prototype until I get more pieces. (16 years ago, 17-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 12v train power
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(...) Woa, bummer! I've used 740, 741, and 7864 transformers successfully in the US with two different step up transformers. My 7864s came from the UK so I wonder if that somehow factors in. Frank (16 years ago, 16-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains)
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I have the Lego 7864 transformer, which I brought to US from Holland. I use it in conjunction with a 110V->220V transformer. This seemed to be going well and my 7740 was still working after all these years. Then suddenly the motor broke. I decided (...) (16 years ago, 15-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains)
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| | NELUG to show at Hooksett, NH Lion's Club Train Show
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NELUG will be showing a small train layout at the Hooksett, NH Lion's Club Model Train Show this weekend, on Sunday, April 20 at the Hooksett Cawley Middle School in Hooksett, New Hampshire. Doors are open from 10am to 3pm. Admission is $4 or (...) (16 years ago, 15-Apr-08, to lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.ri, lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.loc.us.vt, lugnet.loc.us.me, lugnet.loc.us.nh, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: QR Class 2800 redux
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(...) Indeed you did, as credited in the original post. Fortunately with another two and a half years of public use the range of pictures of the 2800s available online is broad which allowed me to make up for the loss of the original prototype (...) (16 years ago, 14-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: QR Class 2800 redux
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(...) Great work Tim version 2 looks so much better can't wait to see the loco in brick, in particular the cab redesign makes a more realistic model, I always find it good to go back and tweek a model as you can add details that you may have missed (...) (16 years ago, 14-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: QR Class 2800 redux
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(...) Tim two and a half years ago I prototyped your original for real remember and I sent you the pictures of the new color scheme correct?? Well the old version runs on the track this version won’t guaranteed. You really should not have gone to (...) (16 years ago, 12-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: RichLug Display at VA Aviation Museum 2008
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(...) I loaded photos from the Aviation Museum show on brickshelf several days ago and am just getting around to posting. Here's a link to my favorite photo entitled: Virginia State Capitol in the year 2525. (URL) (16 years ago, 12-Apr-08, to lugnet.org.us.richlug, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.town, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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| | Re: Trains, DCC, and pbForth
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I realize this thread is kinda old but ...does anyone know if Chris Phillips ever made his TrainLab software available? I have tried a few times to contact Chris without any success. I have been looking into automating my train layouts and would (...) (16 years ago, 11-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, FTX)
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| | Shea on BrickShelf
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Hi All, I was trolling BrickShelf and found this image of a Shea. (URL) = (URL) recently built one and built the full articulation and operating piston etc... it was a huge undertaking that I was NOT 100% successful at (pics to come, if I can find (...) (16 years ago, 10-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Double articulated locomotive
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(...) Thanks (...) With 4x4 turntables (in red) and macaroni bricks (in yellow) The middle part hangs between the two motors on the two 4x4 turntables. If I have some time next week I'll make some pictures in a curve and of the articulation. Niels (16 years ago, 10-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Double articulated locomotive
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(...) Thanks Neils, it looks very nice and retro :) How did you do the articulation? (16 years ago, 10-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains)
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| | New LEGO store in Arizona
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LEGO Store Grand Opening Coming this summer to Chandler Fashion Center, Arizona's first LEGO store! The Chandler Fashion Center LEGO Store will feature: Monthly in-store building contests and events that are free and fun for the whole family! The (...) (16 years ago, 9-Apr-08, to lugnet.loc.us.az, lugnet.loc.us.az.phx, lugnet.trains)
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| | Double articulated locomotive
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I finaly found the time and bricks to build a double articulated locomotive I started to build about half a year ago. It's a sixteen wheeled beast with two engines. I haven't tried it running, but according to the first tests with the chassis it (...) (16 years ago, 9-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: San Diego Coaster train
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(...) Thanks John, I plan to bring it and a SD Sprinter (URL), along with a few other California specific trains to the NMRA show. They still need decals (17 years ago, 8-Apr-08, to lugnet.trains)
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