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Today the North Georgia LEGO Train club had our building session at the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. Here we had helpers of all ages building ornaments to go on our special LEGO decorated tree for this years Atlanta Festival of Trees. The (...) (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ga)
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| | Re: Steve Barile's article at Trains.com
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(...) show posted to Brickself. (...) Dean (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) Hi, I like your engine and box car, specially this one (URL) me a car that I had at Train2 in Toronto last summer, who seed that canadian can't make good MOC? ;-) They will be displayed next week-end at a train show in Montreal suburb. Can't (...) (23 years ago, 3-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) They are not ALL like that. It's just the ones that do stand out. I had that issue last week when I was in a hobby shop. This youth was being quite sarcastic... Oh well. (...) Very true. Our layout last time was 9x9 and now it's 18x13. It's (...) (23 years ago, 3-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) The 8-wide wars... heh heh. That's good. Dean (23 years ago, 3-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) instance, no mention of the 8-wide wars of recent years :-) Keep it up. Jason J Railton (23 years ago, 3-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) Like the CN engine...it looks strangely familiar... ;) (...) Here here! And so we must get the word out! Write some articles about your projects for Trains.com! (...) I actually used the very very few 1x windows that I had for my two color (...) (23 years ago, 3-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) <snip>> (...) I prefer the 3 windows across the front, the half stuff offset kind of looks like something is missing. I did find that if you used 3 framed windows it looked to crowded in the front. So I found that if you use two framed windows (...) (23 years ago, 2-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) Hmmm... We (NELUG) don't really have that problem. We actually get lots of comments from the other train guys when they come to check us out. Sure we lifted some eyebrows the first time we showed but we won most of them over pretty quickly. I (...) (23 years ago, 2-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: Steve Barile's article at Trains.com
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Thanks Larry. In fact in took the entire PNLTC to edit it into a readable form, then the trains.com editors had a shot at it! I actually can write if I concentrate ;) SteveB PNLTC P.S. Did you guys see "A brief history of “L” gauge trains". I (...) (23 years ago, 2-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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"Each show will have its own set of complications and the layout will hardly ever turn out like planned. But that's OK, because the sheer number of bricks will simply mesmerize the visitors. And they won’t be able to stop themselves from saying, “I (...) (23 years ago, 2-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Steve Barile's article at Trains.com
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Appy polly logies if this is a repost but I just found it. (URL) it's not there at that location (it may be dynamic, not sure) start at the main site, take Model Trains, then Lego, then Plans and take the article titled "Planning a LEGO train (...) (23 years ago, 2-Nov-01, to lugnet.org, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.publish, lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Gutter Talk
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Ben Fleskes designed this system for PNLTC and it works well with our tables as Mike mentioned earlier. We don't use corners. I think they will be a hassle making it necessary to have perfect dimensions... we use just the gutter ends. And BTW it (...) (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) Now not having done this myself I thing there are a few things to remember. 1. The Gutters don't need to remain water tight. 2. The Gutters need to have some ridgidity to support a limited amount of leaning/abuse by spectators. Now if you had (...) (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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(...) What NALUG did, and has worked fairly well for us, is we just hardmounted an oval of track to a 4x8 sheet of (pressboard? some varient of wood-but-not-wood). We tell show organizers that they'll need to provide a 4x8 table per oval they want. (...) (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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Thanks Mike!! (...) play area but not exactly the kind of detail on mounting we need. (...) Do you have a pic handy that shows underside or some mounting detail? (...) A wrinkle for us is that we are attaching to banquet tables supplied by GATS... (...) (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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"Scott E. Sanburn" <ssanburn@indalex.com> wrote in message news:GM4MvJ.CDJ@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) Here is a picture of our (NCLTC) gutters: (URL) are mounted with bolts that go through the gutter and then through the table (...) (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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To All, (Larry P suggested I post this here, originally in MLTC Yahoo Group) Like the title? : ) Anyway, I went to Lowe's last night, to get some ideas about the gutter's for the kids table, and I think I found a good solution. They had 10 foot (...) (23 years ago, 1-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| | When PNLTC was at LEGOLAND...
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This is slightly off topic, but... when PNLTC was at LEGOLAND this summer, I remember one of the members mentioning staying at a camp ground near Camp Pendleton. Can this person please contact me? I am trying to track down the information about this (...) (23 years ago, 30-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: Running multiple trains (was "GMLTC layout 'show' pictures")
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(...) Come on, Steve - I'm a computer programmer! What is the standard answer to every problem? "Write a program"!! <grin> I spent the last hour in a staff meeting trying to figure out how I can do this with RCXs... ;-) Don't know if I can make it (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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