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Subject: 
Re: All plastic track
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.trains
Date: 
Mon, 22 Aug 2005 01:15:41 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Ondrew Hartigan wrote:
Also just for the record. I do not believe that making the track plastic instead
of metal makes it cheap looking.

I agree with you, and I think it will look more "classic". The vast majority of
my track is already plastic for the old battery train and this is the only one I
run at my house. Electrified track is for the girls who like to see how much
juice it takes to wreck Grandpa's trains. Also we like to see how fast a rocket
ship can go on electric rails before it takes out innocent bystanders.

Lesson:

Plastic track = Quiet, Healthful Play.
Electric track =  Messy, Violent Play.

So, I greet the new track.

-Erik



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  Re: All plastic track
 
(...) My thoughts are since both the metal rail and plastic rail are nearly identical other than the conducting rails that they are both deserving of being called L-gauge. However since there could be some confusion I would suggest adding the words (...) (19 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains)

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