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| Hello everyone, I am wanting to start collecting trains. I am looking for some advice. Which is the best? What are the pros & cons of each type? 4.5v, 9v, & 12v. ---...--- This is what I already have: 107 - 4.5v Motor & Battery Box (URL) - 12v (...) (24 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
| | | | | Re: Which to collect - 4.5v, 9v, 12v
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| (...) My thinking is collect all of them, 4.5, 9, and 12v. Buy the ones you like and skip the ones you don't. If you do collect different types of trains you may want to run them on the same track. If that is the case, and for me it is, then you may (...) (24 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
| | | | | Re: Which to collect - 4.5v, 9v, 12v
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| (...) Advice about collecting? Are you a collector or a builder or both? (...) Depends on personal preference. Some like 9V some 12, some 4.5 My advice is decide what you like and focus on that. Don't ask others for what you ought to like, that is (...) (24 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
| | | | | Re: Which to collect - 4.5v, 9v, 12v
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| (...) Mr. Watson, As you may well know, the 4.5 and 12V sets are no longer offered by LEGO. 9V sets are by far the most reliable, but LEGO could have been more imaginative in designing these sets (the popular notion is that LEGO 'juniorized' the 9V (...) (24 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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| (...) Aren't all the 9v sets discontinued also? KL (24 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
| | | | | Re: Which to collect - 4.5v, 9v, 12v
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| (...) You can still buy 4561 and 4565 in regular retail stores (for 4561 only I think), or through the Shop at Home catalog. Since you can still get them, and since LEGO has not publicly stated that they are no longer making 9v trains (or did I miss (...) (24 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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| Thanks for everybody's input. I have made a decision. I am going to buy as many of the 12V trains as I can afford. (I might even buy some to sell on eBay so I can afford more!) I can then always convert to 9V later on (if they are still available?). (...) (24 years ago, 12-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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| I think 9v is most useful and popular, so you can combine train sets with RCX or any new coming electric or electronic sets. Zhengrong (...) (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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