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| Hello everyone! I hope this post goes through. Anyway, I only have one LEGO train set: Lego 4534-1 Express Deluxe that my wife got me for Christmas a few years back. I have been ogling all the trains that you all have built throughout the years. I (...) (15 years ago, 15-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Howdy Larry! The RAILBRICKS website (www.railbricks.com) has many sets of instructions, though I'm afraid they mostly (if not all) 6 wide designs. However, it wouldn't be too terribly difficult to augment them to be 8 wide. RAILBRICKS Magazine (...) (15 years ago, 15-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Hello Anthony - LOL - I've just started reading the RAILBRICKS back issues, I've just started issue 3. Thanks for the info you sent me and I'll start looking through it later tonight. For right now, what I'd really like to build is something (...) (15 years ago, 15-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) You need the help of John Neal!!! My suggestion would be to go through Lugnet's train group and look for post by him. At the start of the decade, the train's group was simmering with activity and John N. was (and still is!) a strong proponent (...) (15 years ago, 15-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Hello, Larry! Ahhh, one of my favorite topics: 8 wide! (URL) First, there is nothing really special about building 8 wide; it really is simply a difference of width by 2 studs. The reason one would consider building 8 wide instead of 6 wide is (...) (15 years ago, 16-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) YO, ADRIAN! ===...=== (sorry, couldn't resist-- I'm living in the metro Philly area now!) (URL) Thanks for the plug! Funny thing is that Larry was asking about steam 8 wides, and I never really got into building those-- that was Ross' (...) (15 years ago, 16-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) It's a myth, perpetrated by the 8 wide-haters! (URL) But seriously, no, not even close, but 8 wides look about twice as nice as 6 wides.... (URL) JOHN (15 years ago, 16-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) 8-wide gives you more breathing room for details, too. 10-wide even more so, but as John said official LEGO wheels don't match that scale. Also, the larger the scale, the more parts you'll use and the heavier it will be, so you need to worry (...) (15 years ago, 16-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| Before John jumps on my post, when I said, "The larger the scale, the more parts you'll use, and the heavier it will be," I meant that as "generally speaking." Simple boxcars aren't going to be much heavier at 8- or 10-wide than at 6-wide, for (...) (15 years ago, 16-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Well, I do recall you mentioning Ross' creations but that was waaaaaay back then. You were still the author of the post. Right now I'm working on a train bridge that will incorporate the smooth curve rail technique mentioned in RAILBRICKS (...) (15 years ago, 16-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) "Jump on your post?" Jordan, why, I would never...... (URL) JOHN (15 years ago, 17-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) Until you hit a curve (grin). Seriously though, going from 6 to 8 gives you an improvement in resolution of 33%, so you can get more detail in. But you'll be tempted to make it longer and the lego curves are too tight as it is. The (...) (15 years ago, 26-Dec-09, to lugnet.trains)
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