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Nominations for a trainset poll
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Following the long and rambling thread on the doublestack car one thing that
came up (1) that inspired me was the
idea of a ‘famous trains’ series.
Purely for the sake of entertainment I’m looking for people to suggest ideas for
hypothetical sets. I’m suggesting two categories
• A standalone loco set to be followed later by a maximum of TWO suitable
rolling stock sets (these can be build-able as different variations as per the
Santa Fe coaches).
• A complete train set consisting of no more than FOUR vehicles.
As we are speaking hypothetically you can assume that Lego produce a wheel
suitable for steam locomotives (2) along the lines of the
BBB wheels. Although you are not being asked to
actually design the sets you should assume that they would be 6 wide to the
standard Lego style so that may influence your decision.
As well as suggesting
your favourites try to think of things that would make good sets with widespread
appeal. What famous trains from other countries do you know of? Links to images
of the real thing would be good too.
Once people have made their suggestions I’ll make a couple of polls.
Tim
(1) Well actually, I said it!
(2) Or old skool electrics
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| (...) The French Capitole (URL) 1200 class (URL) then in it's old berlin-blue livery, with some plan E coaches (URL) • A complete train set consisting of no more than FOUR vehicles. TGV Sud-Est in original livery (URL) Hondekop, either a 2- or (...) (20 years ago, 5-May-05, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Nominations for a trainset poll
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| ----- Original Message ----- From: Tim David Newsgroups: lugnet.trains Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 6:09 AM Subject: Nominations for a trainset poll Following the long and rambling thread on the doublestack car one thing that (URL) came up> (1) (...) (20 years ago, 5-May-05, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Nominations for a trainset poll
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| (...) Only Eurotrash need apply?? WELL... if we assume US proto are welcome, and there are no restrictions on new parts, here are my suggestions (...) BNSF are overweighted lately, time for some eastern roads choice 1: Loco: NS late model GE road (...) (20 years ago, 5-May-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) I would like to nominate the orginal Type 0 shinkansen. This has the hemispherical front which is so recognisable. I have tried to model it with standard pieces but I cannot get the front to look right. One new piece which would blend from a (...) (20 years ago, 5-May-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | Re: Nominations for a trainset poll
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| (...) How about the Raymond Loewy Streamliner? (Sorry, not up to a lot of detail with my trains--I'd like to see more train structures (i.e. bridges, stations, water tower, etc....) Scott Lyttle (20 years ago, 5-May-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) Since the designers at TLC have so much more time than we do, and since I managed to build an LMS Garratt (2-6-0+0-6-2), I'm sure they can do a Big-Boy, assuming the current trend of North America being the biggest trains market. And yes, it (...) (20 years ago, 5-May-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | Re: Nominations for a trainset poll
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| (...) Well, It just has to be the Mallard. World famous, fast, impressive streamilned shape and well-represented with standard Lego colours. Will need BBB wheels but could get away without the rods as the skirts cover a large proportion of the (...) (20 years ago, 5-May-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | Re: Nominations for a trainset poll
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| (...) OK, I say the (URL) Mallard> too. (URL) Fastest> steam engine and a lovely design. Do it in blue. To go with it, an LNER (URL) teak carriage, done in dark orange and white. To come as one set that can build either a (URL) 1st class coach> or a (...) (20 years ago, 6-May-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | Re: Nominations for a trainset poll
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| Right, its been a long time but I've finally got myself into gear to create the content for the poll so I can create the actual poll itself quite quickly Most of my ideas for entries already seems to have been done by James Mathis so here are a (...) (19 years ago, 17-Jun-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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