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(...) -- Major Snippage! -- (...) Awesome MOC! It was interesting reading about the process you went through in developing this vehicle. Thank you for sharing this fantastic work with everyone here. Cheers, J.P. Manalo (16 years ago, 5-Aug-08, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Very impressive! I don't know what is the most amazing: the odometer itself or the extensive write-up ;o) Would you have more details (MLCad?) of the gearing/ratcheting between dials? And BTW, did you see this: (URL) (16 years ago, 5-Aug-08, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains)
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My NMRA 2008 pictures are now public. (URL) Clark President/Co-Founder, BayLTC/BayLUG (URL) Chief, PCFD There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness". (16 years ago, 5-Aug-08, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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As is my tendency, here’s an absurdly long treatise describing the development of a LEGO Train Odometer Car (a.k.a. the “LEGOdometer”). (URL) A Little Background. After religiously attending them for several years, I stopped going to LEGO train (...) (16 years ago, 4-Aug-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains, FTX) !!
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| | Re: NMRA 2008 report
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(...) Whoops, yeah.. MI... and that date posting did not post the way I wanted it to... scott (16 years ago, 31-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | GPLR Display at Fun In The Park Event (FUTs)...
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(...) I forgot to FUT... -jeremy proud gplr member since 1998 visit: (URL) gplr> (16 years ago, 2-Aug-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Hi All- Later today, Saturday August 2, 2008, (URL) GPLR> will be featuring a small but well detailed display at the 8th annual (URL) Fun In The Park> community festival in Wilsonville, Oregon. (URL) This is GPLR's 3rd year displaying here and we (...) (16 years ago, 2-Aug-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Yea, I've had the CZ for awhile now, And I didn't think to take pictures at the show. I'll see about doing so if I can ever get unchained to my desk at work. So Far I have a baggag car, two dome cars, a diner, a sleeper, a chair car and a dome (...) (16 years ago, 2-Aug-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Hey Mat, You completed the CZ??? Please share photos. I saw the D&RGW Alcos in the background, but no cars. (...) Wow, them were some impressive trains. I like the 2000 era show photos. Now jumping to your reply to Cale... (...) At least with (...) (16 years ago, 1-Aug-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Thanks for posting pics of these. I was lucky as I saw many of them at the recent NMRA show...my favorite, the Del Monte Packing Building...you captured the building from that era spot on! Great job. Ray Ray Silva socalray@cox.net -----Original (...) (16 years ago, 1-Aug-08, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi Kerry, Yeah dark blue might be a better choice although my eyes read it as about half way in between from the photos but I trust your real life memory. It's probably possible to do in dark blue but I've certainly not got the funds or (...) (16 years ago, 1-Aug-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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Having spent 3 days on the Indian Pacific last December, I'd probably argue for the use of dark blue rather than the normal blue and some kind of orange rather than the yellow, based on my memory and my happy snaps: (URL) obviously there's an issue (...) (16 years ago, 31-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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(...) Scott, I assume you mean Milwaukee WI. I hate to think that people might be going to the wrong state. (16 years ago, 31-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(URL) NR 28>> Hi all, It's been a long time since I built anything train related but I was in the mood last night and managed to build this baby. It's one of the locos of the Indian-Pacific ((URL)) which operates on the East-West trans-continental (...) (16 years ago, 31-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.loc.au, FTX) !
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(...) The Hopper looks sweet. Lots of great detail. The boxcar looks good too. Cale (URL) (16 years ago, 31-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Here is my latest round of buildings. Some of them were built specifically for the NMRA 2008 show. 7-Eleven (no interior yet) (URL) Books (URL) Boutique (URL) Packing House (URL) 1 (URL) (no interior yet) (URL) Stuff: bread & cheese vendor, turkey (...) (16 years ago, 30-Jul-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, lugnet.org.us.baylug)
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Hello, I just recently completed my new Rio Grande grain hopper and Santa Fe freight car MOCs. The grain hopper was easily my most challenging MOC, but after much head scraping and rebuilding, it finally came out as good as I could have hoped for. (...) (16 years ago, 30-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Thanks Ray, I really wanted to run this on the Bay Area/Southern Pacific combined layout, it seemed symbolic. Mat (16 years ago, 29-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thanks Benn, I had spotted the Daylight while researching long passenger train consists a few years ago, when working on my Caifornia Zephyr train. The DL was beutiful, but seemed impossible to do justice at the time, how would I get all that (...) (16 years ago, 29-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Thanks Dave, Yes, all of the articulation in my train is a riff of whats's shown at the ILTCO presentaion, although I originally found the ideas here on LUGNET first. The shared car articulation is based on work by Steve Barile (URL). The (...) (16 years ago, 29-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Thanks Cale. I agree the GP9 is wrong, but the only "correct" Deisels would be E7A, E8A, E9A or PA2, and E7Bs mix and matched in pairs. But the only PA I own is in Rio Grand colors, and I own no E units. My GP9 is modeled after SP5623, which (...) (16 years ago, 29-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) and I heard we were gonna get free ice cream (ok, it was really dipping dots)...with guys like us, I'm curious to see what the deal was with getting ice cream...we (as a group) could have potentially ate them out of their profit (...) (16 years ago, 28-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Here's my photos: (URL) I'm kicking myself for not getting more pictures of NMRA. --Mike (16 years ago, 28-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Ted: Thanks for the great wrap-up. Sounds like it was a hoot and that LEGO® Trains were well represented. I'm sorry I had to miss it. -Dave ToT-LUG (16 years ago, 28-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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As no one else has posted as of yet, here's a brief report on the NMRA's 2008 National Train Show held earlier this month: Location: Hall D, Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California Dates: Exhibition July 18-20, 2008 Space allocation: 65 x 70 (...) (16 years ago, 28-Jul-08, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX) !
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(...) Yeah. The blue pins bother me, but they don't stand out as much when the car is on a layout. I do think I might try finding a handful of the dark bley technic half pins that came with the Batboat set though. They'll still be seen, but they (...) (16 years ago, 28-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Looks Great ! Shame about those blue technic pins though... Steve (16 years ago, 28-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | RE: Some More NMRA 2008 Photos
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And there are some more here too... (URL) Hope you enjoy em! Ray Silva socalray@cox.net -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...ugnet.com] On Behalf Of Adrian Egli Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 7:53 PM To: (...) (16 years ago, 28-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains)
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I figured since Ted got the ball rolling posting event pics, might as well follow- (URL) One thing I did NOT do that I should have was a daily screening of photos taken and I wound up missing some great MOC photos in the process. Next time... What (...) (16 years ago, 28-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains)
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| | RE: Dalylight Train, Southern Pacific Coast
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I was able to see these in person at this year's NMRA show and they are as described, and then some. A real sight to see. Thanks for bringing them to the show Mat. Ray Silva socalray@cox.net -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com (...) (16 years ago, 28-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Okay, Cale, you simply must be stopped. You are making the rest of us look like hacks. Wouldn't a little dark ages feel good right now? Say for the next eight years so that we could catch up to you? Seriously though, very nice detailing, all (...) (16 years ago, 27-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) ... (...) Very nice, it is great to see the old consists alive again in Lego and the Daylights were just crying to be done. The lettering looks great and I can't wait to see how your GS4 turns out. So how did you manage to get the (...) (16 years ago, 27-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) This is an absolutely stunning passenger train. The articulation of the cars looks awesome and the engraved bricks work beautifully. The GP9 looks a little out of place and I'm a big fan of steam so I'm eagerly awaiting to see the steam engine (...) (16 years ago, 27-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | SCLTC photos from NMRA 2008
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(URL) from the Southern California LEGO Train Club's contribution to the 8-club ILTCO layout at the 2008 NMRA National Train Show in Anaheim, California on July 18-20, 2008 are now posted on the club's (URL) website>. (9 URLs) -Ted Michon SCLTC (16 years ago, 26-Jul-08, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.org.us.lugola, lugnet.build, FTX) !
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Hi all, Of late I've noticed a resurgence in the use of 'minifig scale' as a term. Being a mathematically inclined pedant I tend to take issue with this term as minifigs are so deformed it strikes me as impossible to define a single 'scale' to them. (...) (16 years ago, 25-Jul-08, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Dalylight train, Southern Pacific Coast
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(...) --snip-- (...) I'm terribly happy to see colourful passenger rakes make a comeback. I'm far too lazy to make them myself but they do look excellent when done as well as this one. Tim (16 years ago, 25-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Thanks. Hopefully next year we can get together at Brickworld and have a big steam up. Cale (URL) (16 years ago, 25-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) I have to say, that really makes the case for eight wide! It just looks 'right' Tim (16 years ago, 24-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Cale, you're my hero! I've struggled with 4 wheeled pony trucks, and this is the first one using the small BBB wheels I've seen that negotiates around the pistons in one piece. I'm not a big fan of attaching the rail guard to the pony truck, (...) (16 years ago, 24-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Dalylight train, Southern Pacific Coast
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(...) Fantastic work! I've always loved this train, the color scheme is just so striking. The solution you've used to get the cars so close together is something I very well may have to look into myself for my Tequila Sunrise. The idea of having the (...) (16 years ago, 24-Jul-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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