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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, March 15, 2004 10:39 PM
How about those old Marx and Hafner trains? THEY were electricity free!
Wind 'em up and watch 'em go! Still got mine and it still goes! Had a LOT
of fun running the wind-up during the two-week outage due to Hurricane
Isabel! :D
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Posted by Big_Boy_4005 on Monday, March 1, 2004 9:19 PM
I know some people who do some very fancy Lego modeling, and actually have a portable display.

Here are a couple of photos taken in my basement. The photographer is 11 years old.
Can you tell which one was designed by Lego and which one was done by my son?[:D]



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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, March 1, 2004 8:57 PM
yeah you can start with a basic motor and build your own locos. ive even seen lego-railroaders build detaled f3s and other such locos that ca be as big as g-scale!
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 27, 2004 11:51 PM
Apologies. I sped-read the site and thought otherwise.

Still, it's a fascinating bit of fun, don't you agree?
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Posted by Big_Boy_4005 on Friday, February 27, 2004 11:33 PM
Lego trains are not electricity free. The controller uses an AC adapter, and the trains run on 9v DC. We have quite a few sets, and my 11 year old son really likes them.
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Electricity Free Toy Trains
Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 27, 2004 6:13 PM

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