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what makes a train set a set?
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lugnet.admin.database
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Sun, 13 Feb 2000 06:45:12 GMT
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LPIENIAZEK@NOVERA.spamlessCOM
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To me, and to many other Model Railroaders, a train set by definition
has to have a locomotive and at least one car. Track and powerpack are
optional. That's a canonical MR definition. Most sets DO come with track
and or a power pack but don't have to, per se. 4558 doesn't come with a
power pack, nor does 4565.
Therefore, I feel:
http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=3225-1
is miscategorized. Assuming no new categories get created the analysis
goes as follows:
It's under "train cars" but it has a locomotive. A locomotive is not a
car. It doesn't belong under locomotives the way 4551 does, because it
has cars. So it, by elimination can't be in cars, or in locomotives. It
certainly doesn't belong in buildings or accesssories or accessory
elements or accessory track. Therefore by elimination, it's a set.
However, my opening para carries the day even without the analysis.
IMNSHO.
While we're harping on categorizations, what is up with
http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=5308-1
vs.
http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=5310-1
One is in "accessories" and the other is in "accessory elements" These
two service packs differ by one part. What is the difference between
accessories and accessory elements? I looked at a number of the other
ones and wasn't able to discern a scheme. I would merge these two
categories together. Or better yet, call this subcat "service packs"
because that's what they are. (although for 12V some of the accessory
elements didn't come in service packs)
Finally, (given that I can't win 4549 not being a car because it has
more than just a car, and that I can't get a MOW category created for
4525, which is NOT a car, ditto 4541, but I digress...) I would rename
Accessory Track to Track. What is Accessory telling you that you didn't
already know in this instance?
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| (...) I didn't lay out the sub-categories for the train stuff so I'm speculating here, but I'm thinkin' that prolly what Joshua meant by "train cars" was "sets where the main model has wheels that go on train tracks"...? (As opposed to sets which (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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