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  1. Scheemdalegotrain
    Okay Andy, great video, great layout - love the way you integrated 9v en 12v into one layout! One thought on the station though - I agree with those (including yourself?) who don't particularly fancy your station, especially the station building. I think the main problem with it is that it's simply too large for the rest of the landscape - it sort of looks like a beached, yellow whale... might downsizing it help?
  2. Scheemdalegotrain
    Hi there Helos, I saw your Railjet (again) today and it is simply amazing. One of the best renditions of this fine train built so far! This is a set I could truly imagine as a creator set one day (next year? Maybe too much to hope for...) Do you have building instructions?
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    This is starting to look lie a really interesting lay out! I like your main station area and the connecting track on the inner loop, a very clever way to allow you to change the direction of your trains.... What scenery are you planning? I'd put a eye-catching row of buildings in the spaece between the two track of your main line in the upper part of the lay out. Keep us posted on your progress and brick on, Exa!
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    Ah, that's a pity... My girlfriend and I lived in an apartment to, and I couldn't build a permanent lay out there, too... We moved to Scheemda last year and now I have a legroom with a (semi)permanent lay out in progress... I sympathise! I hope you can move soon and be able to actually use this fantastic station for your trains!
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    In real life it looks even better than in LDD. A very, very cool looking station that I'd love to have, to be honest... And it works very well with the cut switches! Now, of course you will have to show us how it looks in your layout... Ha!
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    Your modular lay outs (and especially this last one) show one of the great advantages of working modular (I say this although I haven't ever tried my own hand at it!): the amount of detail possible. It would be virtually impossible to reach such a level of detail on a full-scale lay out. What you do in modular is wonderful, (the cables in the ground, for example!), but don't you ever miss the 'play value' of operating your trains on a bigger track system?
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    Cool city - and the way you have changed it over time are IMHO mostly improvements... I especially like the way in which the beach is combined with a road, turning this into a kind of 'seaside boulevard'. One thing you consistently keep doing I don't quite understand, though: why are the train tracks mostly 'separated' from the rest of the layout? This gives the feeling that they do not form an integral part of your layout and that the trains are riding around it. Why not put them on baseplates?
  8. Scheemdalegotrain
    Since I was bitten by the train bug two years ago, I have collected the following trains, all RC/PF: assembled: - the 7938 red passenger train; - the 7939 yellow cargo train; - the 3677 red cargo train; - the 60051 ICE passenger train; - the 60052 blue cargo train. Still to be assembled: - another 7938 red passenger train; - the 7997ICE passenger train; - the 7998 green cargo train.
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    Hi Duq! I stand corrected.... I had completely forgotten that the mat. 64 were (are?) indeed called Apekoppen and not Hondekoppen... I also like the use of this piece, but I still think that it's a little bit 'off the mark" to really capture the feel of a mat. 64.
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    Last year, I was suffering from a summer flu and i was browsing the internet a bit - and i stumbled on the website of a toy dealer here in the Netherlands who offered the 3677 red cargo train for only 105 euros - with free delivery... I bought it immediately!
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    I think, looking at it, that is supposed to be an NS (Dutch national railways "Mat 64 Hondekop" (lit. "Dog's head") passenger train of the 1960/70s era (althouigh some still drive on presently!). It works fairly well, although the nose it a bit of... Nice layout!
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    This is, indeed an amazing town square! I might have missed it, but: is thee an actiaul underground under your city? Or are you plannig to build and operate one? A working metro system under such a city... Oh yes!
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    Great pictures! I like the way in which you combine 12v en 9v (or is it PF? I'm not sure) and the mountain with the rail construction on top... Brick on!
  14. Scheemdalegotrain
    Yes you should open at least one! (Hell, you should open both and build them!) This too is a great set. It is inspired by the 6400-series cargo locomotive of the Dutch railways NS. It was introduced in the late 1980s and it is still doing its job in the Netherlands... |This set is perhaps the one Lego designed that is closest to an actual real-life locomotive. Build it! Let it drive!
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    Great video! I have bought and built this set some two weeks ago and I like this cargo train almost as much as the 7939. almost, because being from the Netherlands, we don't have this kind of locomotives around... But when I watched runaway train on one of our commercial channels yesterday night, I appreciated again how much like an american freight locomotive this one looks... It is happily clucking along my lay out!
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    Great idea! When I was a kid, I had two big lego-loves: classic space and trains. On the train field, I never got much further then a few push along trains Ii still own one of them), but I would have loved to got this one (or, better yet, the 7740) back in '81, when I was 11 years old... Oh you betcha... Please take pictures of your progress!
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    I agree with Legosjaak and Nezz and you seem to have already decided: go for the three tier version, it looks great (and in my humble opinion) also rather 'realist'. Please post pictures when you finished building it!
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    Hi everybody, thanks for all the (further) tips I've received. I could imagine it is a bad connection, but up to now, it's all still functioning... I'm crossing my fingers it remains that way! Since I live in the north (the Arriva Groningen/Friesland concession) I would of course have to build a red one - and you're right of course,Dr Spock, there is some overlap between the 7938 and the GTW, especially the ones in the 'northern' colour scheme.. Although I have always assumed that the 7938 was mostly modeled after the (Alsthom?) LINT platform. I might give it a shot, someday, when my building skills have improved...
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    It has always seemed like a great idea to me, too. I have a small forested area in one of the corners of my city/railway lay out, but that one is none too big - lack of space. However, once I can move to our attic (only a year or two... Patience, patience...) i will have the space to make a bigger 'country' area, with forest and farmland. And yes, the Camper Van will travel there!
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    I have noticed this as well: two switches works, three gets more complicated. In my current lay out, I don't use three switches in a row (apart from the problem you mentioned, it costs a lot of space anyway!), but I tried it last year. If you use unballasted track, the solution can probably be found in 'stretching' the flexibility of your track a bit or use a piece of flex track somewhere along the way. But since you use fully ballasted track.... Still try to use a piece of flex track further along, perhaps?
  21. Scheemdalegotrain
    First of all, thank you for the replies! Jopie K,thank you for your warm welcome. I would love to come to Steenwijk this Saturday (it is not THAT far from East-Groningen, after all), but we have guests on Saturday and I have to be in Amsterdam on Sunday.Some other time, hopefully! Ashi, thanks for posting, I love what you do with Hungarian trains, especially your Stadlers. I travel to work in a GTW from Arriva every day, planning on building that one any time? The problem is definitely not in the RC-frequencies: I checked that. However, it seems to have miraculously disappeared: without me doing that much apart from blowing of some dust from the axles, she started working again last night and ran rather smoothly this morning. So it might just have been dusty drive axles, who knows... If the problem returns, however, I will follow the other suggestions you have given. Thanks again! Scheemdalegotrain
  22. Scheemdalegotrain
    Hi everybody! I'm Scheemdalegotrain, from Scheemda in the North of the Netherlands. I have been an AFOL for two years now, coming out of a dark age that lasted 25 years... Since then I have been into trains mostly, having bought the 7938 and the 3677 and recently the 60051 en 60052. I have been an avid reader of Eurobricks (and especially the train tech section) for months now and a am still blown away by the creativity and beauty of some of the MOC's I see here. I am very far removed from that stage (yet), and I am still very happy slowly building up my own town which is called, in honor of my girlfriend's nickname, Petoffeltown. I might post a few pictures of the work in progress sometime soon... the reason I registered today as a member, however, has mostly to do with problems I experience with the 7939 locomotive. It is part of a bunch of lego I bought last year and has always performed smoothly. Yesterday, however, it stopped moving. Changing the batteries does not work, the green light is on and as far as I can see, everything is connected as it should be. But the motor seems to be unresponsive to the RC- not even the well known whining sound appears.... Any of you any ideas? Cheers, Scheemdalegotrain
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