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I've recently bought a 12V set on bricklink. I was a bit surprised when I got it, because the black 12V wheels are not entirely black; they have a red pin at their centre. Afterwards, I searched for 12V wheels on bricklink to find out if there are actually two types of 12V felts, but I just found one seller who sells them with a red pin. Click here for the picture: http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?pg=2&q=4180c01&viewFrom=sa&sz=25&searchSort=P

I was being ironic when I called my interest in H0 trains a sin. Since you don't think that LEGO is meant to be stacked, I can only repeat one thing: I don't have enough space to put the assembled sets somewhere. So for the time being, it's best to leave everything in the boxes.

Hello everyone! On April 17th I bought my last LEGO set on eBay. Since then I have lost two bids on LEGO sets on that auction website and I haven't bought any other LEGO stuff. Not a single brick! The problem is that I'm running out of space. There's a room in the basement which is filled with LEGO. There's also a pile of LEGO sets that hasn't reached the ceiling yet. There's still enough space left for a few more LEGO sets, but the ceiling is getting closer and closer. Since my brother hasn't played with his magnificent H0 model train layout for a long while, I decided to pack it away. Unnecessary to say that I also thought about creating new storage space for my beloved LEGO boxes and MISB sets that way. Quite a sinister plan, huh? When I had packed away half of it, my brother's heart nearly broke. Even though he hadn't touched the layout for a longer period of time, he liked it a lot. He feared that I was recklessly disassembling the whole layout, and he had no good argument to stop me from doing it. I could always have said, "Well, when was the last time you played with it? You can't even remember, can you?!" However, this most disturbing nightmare of his did not become true. After being the layout's nemesis for at least 50% of it, it gathered all its remaining forces and stroke back in a very sneaky way. While disassembling it, I was fascinated by the many different rails: curves with different radii, double slip switches, 15 and 10 degree switches. Fascination had got me!! A LEGO train hobbyist could only dream of so many different tracks! Of course, I always knew about them, but things became a lot more interesting to me when I had a closer look at them. So I decided to drop my plans of packing away the whole stuff and left half of it. It was quite hard to create a decent layout with just half of the space left, but I made the best of it. However, things didn't end that way. The fascination I've mentioned before has still not released its steely grip. Just this week I went to a model train shop and bought some metallic rail connectors - some of the old ones were crooked - special couplings and two passenger waggons. That was not my only purchase! At that time I had already bought some H0 tracks on eBay. I'm into model trains right at the moment! So, this is the sin I've committed. If you've also neglected your LEGO hobby in favour of another one, let me know! I'm curious to hear some of your stories.

I've got eighteen locomotives. I counted the Metroliner as one locomotive, of course. Edit: Nineteen if I add the Hobby Train Set and regard it as one locomotive... plus another engine - TWENTY in this case - that I built from instructions I had found on brickshelf.com.

Version a) is correct. Can you also say b)? a) I found it one day ago. b) I found it a day ago.

Well, not really open, I'd say. I've recently posted some questions on English Grammar in the Community thread. Just today I had a discussion with a teacher at my school. He's a workmate. I talked to him about a sentence I had posted here. I mentioned that I had got a good reply after posting that sentence in a forum. He asked me in which forum I had posted it. I said, "Can't remember. Its name has slipped my mind. I'm quite a new member there." I distracted him by starting to talk about another forum.

Thanks! Aren't there two possibilities of where you put "again", either where I placed it or where you placed it? Can another native speaker add their opinion on this matter? It'd be interesting.

What do you say to these sentences: Here the prison warden is law and order. => I'd say: ..is THE law and order. (Meaning: The prison warden sets up his own rules in his prison.) We will see us on Monday again. => I'd say: We will see EACH OTHER...

Agreed! This way it is pretty obvious that "being" is needed! Again, you've helped a lot, guys. Thanks! More questions might follow!

She said that trapeze artist was an exciting job. => OK this way without an article before "trapeze artist"? I think it is. She got the job by the circus. => I'd say: ...AT the circus. Somehow this sentence sounds strange: In the show she has the part which is the most exciting. => Correct or not? I'd either say "which is the most exciting one" or "which is most exciting". PS: Mr Man and Pandora, thanks for your previous replies!

In a circus you travel a lot. => Here the writer wants to say that as a circus artiste you move from one location to the next all the time, but is the preposition "in" correct or not? What about saying: With a circus you move a lot.

Quite interesting, your intros! I forgot one: Star Trek Enterprise:

Hello guys, I'd like to know which opening sequences you like best. Here are some of my favourites: The Legend of Prince Valiant: Angela's Eyes: Smallville: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iHU4JKNULM&feature=related Roswell: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBc95YDB6io By the way, this topic is just about the opening sequence. I'm not asking about your favourite TV series. That would be a different question.

Which LEGO set should I buy? => Object: LEGO set; that's why "which" must be used. What "no object" should I buy? => No object; that's why "what" must be used. Tell me whether I've understood. I think I have. I usually do it the correct way anyway. However, recently I've seen sentences with "what" plus object so often that I felt the need to ask. I actually signed up at an English forum for such questions, but I'm sometimes quite sceptical in regard to the replies I get there. Sometimes non-native speakers reply and I highly doubt I get an answer I can rely on. And even if a native speaker responds, the answer is often quite perfunctory and not really explained well. But it's different here. You guys know how to help. Thanks a bunch!

Which one's correct? A) They played soccer till the evening. B) They played soccer till evening. => I'd say it without the definite article "the". Is there a difference between saying: 1. On which continent does he live? 2. On what continent does he live? For me both are fine and mean the same. What do you think?

Would you say: We all can swim. Or: We can all swim. I'd tend to put "all" after the modal verb "can." Or can you say it either way? Edit: Oh, sorry for posting this here! I don't know how it happened, but I wanted to post it in the threat that I had startet: A native speaker of English needed from time to time. If a moderator could move it there, I'd be glad. Don't know why I was so inattentive as to post it in the wrong place! Sorry again!

Thanks a lot!

Dear native speakers of English, I need your opinion again! Some questions: He gave him a very good medicine. => Can you say this? Is medicine countable? I'd say: he gave him SOME very good medicine. She was at the beach. She walked along. => Can you use "walked along" without an object? If not, where would you insert the personal pronoun "it"? => She walked it along. OR She walked along it. (The first one sounds much better, the last one very strange.) She went on a beach. => I'd say: She went TO the beach. OR: She walked ON/ALONG the beach. We have a lot of visitors now. => OK or do you have to say "we are having..."? Or are both tenses possible?

You say that one pro of PF is that you can built more detailed steam engines with those components. Well, I think you can also build very accurate steam engines with a 9V motor. Just make it the base of the tender. As I child someone made me touch both contacts of a 9V battery with my tongue. I don't know who played this trick on me. I can't remember. The feeling isn't nice but it is far from being dangerous.

When I was a child, I was more into the castle theme than into anything else. Maybe this is also due to the fact that I knew that the trains of the 12V line were quite expensive (even back then when they were available). So I didn't think I'd ever get a 12V train set even if I put it on my Christmas wishlist. But my interest has changed since my childhood. Now I'm mainly into trains/town/city. The castle sets that are available nowadays don't appeal to me anyway.

Jennifer Lopez - On the Floor She took the melody of Kaoma's song "Lambada," which I also like.

My question was aimed at discussing the number of engines and nothing else. It's clear that there are far too few waggons for a realistic setup. By the way, thanks for all replies. I have found this discussion highly interesting and informative.

The BNSF engine 10133 was available separately without an additional locomotive being part of the same set. And now set 10219 is available and there's also only one engine in the set. However, the passionate train lover knows that American diesel engines are often used in pairs or in units of even more than two engines. So I sometimes ask myself if TLC does this on purpose: They release sets with only one American diesel engine to make the customer buy more than one of that set. And the follow-up question is: Is the fact that American diesel engines aren't normally used seperately responsible for making TLC produce them? This question comes up because TLC can be sure that real train lovers are going to buy more than one copy since they want to depict real life - i.e. waggons being pulled by more than one engine - on their layouts. In the recent past, three American engines have been produced: 10020, 10133, 10219.

Are those American diesel engines equally long in real life? If not, why should a BNSF engine look lost behind a Maersk engine? I'd be glad if I could see a picture of both LEGO engines in double heading. Then we could all see what it'd really look like if both engines were combined. I think it doesn't matter if the colours of one engine don't go well with the colours of the other. I think colour schemes are ignored in real life as well. Are there any pictures of real life American diesel engines that work in double heading and have different colours?

I bought the following things from a bricklink seller: 1x 7855 curved electric 12V rails, MISB 1x 7858 remote controlled 12V points right, MISB 1x 7864 12V transformer, MISB