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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 (...) (24 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | | | | Re: what makes a train set a set? —Todd Lehman
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | | | | | Re: what makes a train set a set? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | Let's get Joshua to comment, but for now.... I'll put my oar in anyway. (...) That definition ("has trainwheels") matches all three of the categories cars, locos, and train sets. So I don't think that's it. I believe 3225 is the only set across ALL (...) (24 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | | | | | (canceled) —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | Re: what makes a train set a set? —Frank Filz
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| | | | Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <38A72E70.4AD987FB@v...er.net>... (...) speculating (...) One difficulty is having only a single category. Ultimately, what is needed is to be able to have a set of keywords for each set. In this case, 3225 might (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | | | | | Re: what makes a train set a set? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) er, ah, yes. I forgot about those. 4533 is not worthy of being in the 9V line, and 4552 is misnamed, there's no cargo in the set anywhere, all that stuff is MOW related. (24 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | | | | | Re: what makes a train set a set? —Simon Denscombe
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| | | | In article <38A75F66.DD002A4@voyager.net>, lar@voyager.net says... (...) Other anomalies - set 5200 is Accessories - Train Shouldn't that be the other way around? Almost all the other 5xxx Train Accessories are in the wrong category. I now use (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | | | | | Re: what makes a train set a set? —Frank Filz
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| | | | (...) One thing we need to do is start combining these databases. So far, I am aware of three databases which I use on a regular basis: Pause Brickset Fibblesnork (24 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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