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Re: New LEGO train realism?
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Date: 
Thu, 23 Mar 2000 00:35:14 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, James J. Trobaugh writes:
The nice thing is that they are very sturdy and can handle any 4 year olds
that break past our ropes.

jt

Ropes?  Huh??  ;-)

The GMLTC lets kids get right up to our layout.  Touching is discouraged, but
it still happens.  Yes, we get the occasional *crash*, but we can always
rebuild.  We had a great one this weekend, kid got his fingers in front of my
passenger train, the locomotive hit the floor and broke apart.  Mom was
yelling, we were laughing, kid wasn't sure if he was in trouble or not.  J-3
has a great digital picture of him, with the locomotive in pieces behind him.

(And, it seems that it's always one of my creations nose-diving to the
floor...  Doh!)

JohnG, GMLTC



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  Re: New LEGO train realism?
 
Wow John you are a brave man indeed. I have a hard enough time monitoring the trains, and keeping an eye out for run away toddlers (and if anyone has one they know that a couple of pieces of rope mean nothing), but having to keep an eye on the (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
  Re: New LEGO train realism?
 
Wow, I would love to see that picture. (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)

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The tables used by the NGLTC where built using the original standards published by the PNLTC. They are a bit narrower (to fit the mini van) but are the same height and use the same basic principle of connecting together. Only one table of the entire (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)

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