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Re: All plastic track
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lugnet.trains
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Wed, 17 Aug 2005 04:50:39 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Ross Crawford wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Jake McKee wrote:
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2. After years
of waiting patiently for new track geometry and expansion and always being
told that it’s expensive and will take time, we get new track we don’t
want: All plastic.
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...and a committment to L Gauge (and I’m saying L Gauge rather than 9v). As
I mentioned at BF, we’re not replacing the current system (like we have in
the past when switching from 4.5 > 12v or 12v > 9v), we’re “stretching” it
to include additional components.
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Just to clarify Jake, will you be referring to both (Play and Hobby) as L
gauge? That would make sense to me as they are all the same gauge. But it
might confuse “real” train modellers - when we want to display at a train
show with our L gauge layout, they might think (when Play Trains are
launched) that we mean Play Trains, and turn up their noses (even more than
they do now).
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Actually, that’s a very good point. I was using L Gauge to refer to anything
that uses the track gauge (distance between rails, obviously) currently used for
both the Play and Hobby trains.
But I don’t pretend to think that I should be defining the usage of L Gauge -
I’d actually turn this question back on the community... what do y’all think?
Jake
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Jake McKee
Community Liaison
LEGO Community Team
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Message has 4 Replies:
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| (...) How about Finescale L and Coarsescale L gauges :) Seriously tho I think L-gauge would be suitable for both, it only refers the track gauge, not the scale, and as they are the same... Tim (19 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) For the public exhibitions with model railway clubs that I've done over the last four years I haven't referred to "L-gauge" because no-one outside the Lego community has heard of it! Instead I have used "8mm:1ft scale" because that is the (...) (19 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) Here's one idea... Origin'L' for metal tracked model trains and 'L'Cheapo for the plastic tracked play trains. -Patrick (19 years ago, 21-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) I'd say 'L-Gauge' defines the spacing of the track. If you want to distinguish between metal or plastic track then use some other terminology. Don't confuse the issue when some people have just started making headway into traditional model (...) (19 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: All plastic track
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| In lugnet.trains, Jake McKee wrote: snip snip (...) Just to clarify Jake, will you be referring to both (Play and Hobby) as L gauge? That would make sense to me as they are all the same gauge. But it might confuse "real" train modellers - when we (...) (19 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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