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Re: Lego layout from the seventies
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Date: 
Sat, 6 May 2000 03:05:02 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:

In lugnet.general, Gianluca Morelli writes:
Hi all,I've put this old pic (I'm very fond of it) on brickshelf
gallery.

www.brickshelf.com/gallery/gm/op/enciclopedia0.jpg

It is a lego train layout from the seventies,that was on an old
encyclopedia of mine (since its name) .

Note the bridge, it's made out of blue rails. We have seen several AFOL
creations that do that, but I had no idea there was a precedent for it. Cool

++Lar

There are other precedents for this sort of bridge.  See

http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/0000/0241/index.html

In particular, pages 79 and 86.

This is my favorite train idea book.

It also has a roller coaster on page 88.

/Eric McC/



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  Re: Lego layout from the seventies
 
Thanks for the pointer, that is a cool idea book. But I am left wondering, are those bridges really strong enough? The brigde on page 86 is pretty short, but the one on page 79 is fairly long (3 tracks). Just wondering out loud. Thanks, Chris P.S. I (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
  Re: Lego layout from the seventies
 
(...) Wonderfuuuuuuuul!!!! Many of the stuff in these pages is also in my picture... look on page 70: the station is very similar to the one in my picture ,and, what's running under it? A Santa fe f7 (quite primitive,but it's a f7). And look at the (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.trains)

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(...) Note the bridge, it's made out of blue rails. We have seen several AFOL creations that do that, but I had no idea there was a precedent for it. Cool ++Lar (25 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)

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