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Re: A real live working LEGO Shelf railway...
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Wed, 9 Aug 2000 17:13:51 GMT
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cmasi@cmasiIHATESPAM.chem.tulane.edu
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Maybe we will all see the first dust-busting train car from you?

Chris

Eric Kingsley wrote:

> In lugnet.trains, Sonnich Jensen writes:
> > Great peice of work!
> > 
> > I have myself been thinking of such a thing, mostly for storage and display.
> > Currectly my cars are stored away, but tought that this could be way for
> > storing them.
> > I tought of a 2 level layout with 4 points, so trains can drive from level 1
> > to level 2 an visa-versa.
> 
> This would be interesting.  I have already thought of ways to expand this by
> putting a hole (tunnel) through the wall into the next room to connect to a
> shelf in that room.  I doubt that will happen any time soon but its just a
> thought.
> 
> > 
> > Once I had some trains on a shelf for display, and faced the problem, that
> > it gets very fast dirty. My soultion was to use a cupboard with glass doors
> > on top (hard to reach anyway). Have you tought of putting some glass around
> > it?
> 
> I don't plan on any glass around the shelf.  Yes I expect it to get fairly
> dirty and require occasional cleaning but because it is so high up much of the
> dirt won't be visible so it will probably be an "out-of-site out-of-mind" type
> deal.  I would expect I will have to dust or even run a vacuum cleaner around
> the shelf every once in a while.
> 
> Eric Kingsley
> 
> The New England LEGO Users Group
> http://www.nelug.org/

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  Re: A real live working LEGO Shelf railway...
 
(...) This would be interesting. I have already thought of ways to expand this by putting a hole (tunnel) through the wall into the next room to connect to a shelf in that room. I doubt that will happen any time soon but its just a thought. (...) I (...) (26 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.trains)

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