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 | | Re: 9v Train status report.
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| (...) Everything I have read indicates that the "hobby train" IS Lego Train Factory. Lego is focusing in-house train set development on their "play train" line. "Hobby train" set development is being left to us, the fans, using Lego Train Factory. (...) (19 years ago, 31-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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9v, trains
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| | Re: 9V Train Motor Being Discontinued?
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| (...) Oh, and I was misled. I thought the trains were radio controlled. Apprently, they are Infra-RED controlled. I mistakenly put radio in my post. I revise my statement in the EE Degree. I will now need a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 9V Train Motor Being Discontinued?
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| (...) This is a good point which bears repeating in my mind. If TLG thinks that we as LEGO train AFOLs think this will somehow be a BETTER system, then they are (again) sorely mistaken. As Mark said, however, TLG is a toy company, so the point may (...) (19 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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9v, trains
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| | Re: 9v Train status report.
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| (...) This is perhaps the case for those of us that already have the essentials to make a LEGO train (track, controler, motor) but it certainly is not what is required to bring NEW people into the hobby. People at the shows and at the store all want (...) (19 years ago, 31-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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9v, trains
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| | Re: 9V Train Motor Being Discontinued?
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| (...) Speaking as part of Michiana-LTC, we would continue to do shows until our equipment gave out. We do about 3 or 4 shows per year. (...) Michiana-LTC will likely not widely adopt the new trains other than giving them a small loop of their own. (...) (19 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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9v, trains
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| | Re: Auotmated decouplers (Was: Who's the April fool now?)
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| (...) The receiver circuit fits inside a box shaped like this: (URL) Receiver>> Power is connected at one end, and the motor drive is taken from the other. You can see it in the rear section of the engine. The battery box is in the front, and (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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9v, trains
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| | Re: 9V Train Motor Being Discontinued?
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| (...) SCLTC (Southern California LEGO Train Club does about 6 display events covering 100 show days that attract about 150,000 visitors per year. The trend is upward. (...) We probably could not avoid having some members bring IR trains to our (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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9v, trains
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| | Re: 9V Being Discontinued?
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| (...) Particular products may be "no longer available", but the *system* is still available. Just because the friendly N-scalers at the next layout are running a locomotive that was last sold in 1985 doesn't change the fact that there are hundreds (...) (19 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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9v, trains
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| | Re: 9V Train Motor Being Discontinued?
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| (...) The more and more I think about the whole LEGO train deal, the more I think that we've set ourselves up for these let downs. Almost no other model railroad sub-hobby limits itself to a single companies products. The exceptions I am aware of (...) (19 years ago, 27-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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9v, trains
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| | Re: 9V Train Motor Being Discontinued?
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| That may all be true (but I would point out that last I heard, Lionel is alive and well, yet there are folks who only do vintage tinplate Lionel), but my main point is that by chosing to be 100% pure to a single manufacturer, we are totally at the (...) (19 years ago, 27-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | One good message (kind of) from LEGO at last...
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| Hi Train Fans! Some may have heard about the AFOL group which co-worked with LEGO on Mindstorms-NXT (at least as a kind of feedback group). Then there is the group of Ambassadors and who will wonder: there is a group of train fans organised to give (...) (18 years ago, 1-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains)
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9v, trains
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| | Re: 9V Track
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| (...) Thank you all for your replies...I'm going to play this one safe and buy some track. I'm sure this has all been said, but it seems a shame that just as the realease quality, collector level trains like the Santa Fe's, they are going to cut off (...) (19 years ago, 16-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Santa Fe Super Chief wheel question
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| In lugnet.trains, Anthony Sava wrote: Dear Anthony, you are asking a lot of questions and not all of them can be anwered, but I will try with some of the most important. (...) Definitely these had too high friction due to mismoulded parts done by a (...) (19 years ago, 24-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.color)
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9v, trains
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| | A brief reflexion on power sources
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| Hi all, When browsing Brickshelf's catalog database tonight, I came across this text from the 1969 belgian catalog: (URL) simple terms, it states something that appeared obvious back then: a child would first own a pushtrain, then a battery-operated (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jul-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Dawn of a New Era in LEGO Trains!
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| (...) Lol, Ben, glad to hear that you have spent some time on the dark side!:-) We are working on some more schleimy rolling stock, but as it is, somebody already has built a 1:38 scale Big Boy! Check it out: <https://www.flickr....623452005> (...) (5 years ago, 3-May-19, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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trains
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| | Re: Thoughts on Spy Photos of New Trains
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| (...) Only if the Super Chief was three times as expensive, which it wasn't. Real bricks mean more value for the dollar than molded super-pieces. (...) I have no idea what effect price per piece means for TLC's bottom line. They seem to go to either (...) (19 years ago, 7-Jan-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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save, trains
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