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Re: Non-Lego trains, anyone?
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.build
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Mon, 20 Mar 2000 21:01:35 GMT
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Ralph Hempel wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I figured I'd post this to both groups to get an idea of
> how people feel about this idea I just got.
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> I had spent a bit of time yesterday playing with my 3
> year old and I made him the rig you see here...
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> <http://www.hempeldesigngroup.com/lego/bigrig/>
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> Well, with all of the discussion lately about containers,
> I thought it might be fun to get a Lego train. Unfortunately
> they just don't look right with my small trucks.
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> Then I pulled out some old HO track and had a brain wave....which
> is often more dangerous than it sounds.
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> The track looks not too badly out of scale with a 4 stud
> vehicle. What if someone was to take a standard HO locomotive
> and dismember it, then reattach the guts to a Lego plate
> or some such item. Wouldn't it be cool to have a "real" train
> that everyone could afford space for, and still have Lego for
> the rolling stock and buildings?
It could work, but then Gary Istok would have competition for classic
windows and doors since the 1x2x3 classic door is what is in scale with
HO.
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Frank Filz
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| (...) Well, I have my own badly scratched up Classic doors. I even have some slides of me 30 years ago with a Marklin HO train set (still have it) and some neat LEGO buildings I made. I even had some of the old HO scale LEGO trucks - if only I (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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| | Non-Lego trains, anyone?
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| Hi all, I figured I'd post this to both groups to get an idea of how people feel about this idea I just got. I had spent a bit of time yesterday playing with my 3 year old and I made him the rig you see here... (URL) Well, with all of the discussion (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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