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Re: Help needed on German trains
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 13 Oct 2005 13:30:46 GMT
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RHEMPEL@BMTS.COMavoidspam
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Also, this site is an invaluable reference:
<http://www.worldrailfans.org/Articles/Europe/Ger-EngDictionary.shtml>
I'm a native German speaker, and I have fond memories of my
Dad and I building a little Marklin train layout.
The German words are often hilarious in their pronunciation and
number of syllables, and I sometimes cruise through the list
for names for servers.
It beats using planets or characters from Lord of the Rings for
your servers. You get names like:
funkenfanger
bremserhaus
dampfdom
huckepackwagen
kolbenstange
saugluft
schlepptenderlok
I'll leave it to you to look them up :-)
Ralph
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| (...) Oh! Thank you. Really interesting. I hope I remember enough German pronounciation to do justice to them ;) I'll also add this link to BrickWiki's train terms and German trains articles. Tim (19 years ago, 13-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Help needed on German trains
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| (...) Commuter trains tend to be referred to as S-Bahn (...) As Didier has mentioned, the (URL) European Railway Server> is probably the best place to look, especially as a starting point to find out what to search for. (...) I think it is a (URL) (...) (19 years ago, 13-Oct-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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