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| (...) My example was hypothetical. I figured it was a pretty good bet the patents had expired. It was just an example of something where I strongly suspect that there were patents which would have been applicable to models. (24 years ago, 15-Feb-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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| (...) The reason why I knew about that one is that Willimette built rip offs of Shay's (called the West Coast Shay) starting in 22. Most anything to do with steam has passed the 50 year mark on the patents, and a lot of it has passed the 70 year (...) (24 years ago, 15-Feb-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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