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(...) Insane. Amazing. Shock. Awe. (and Spotlight.) (16 years ago, 5-Aug-08, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) <snip> Great idea! Tempting to build something similar for our next show... The only disappointing part of the story is that it took a number of days of computing power to come up with a solution that doesn't use computing power ;-) (16 years ago, 5-Aug-08, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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