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(...) That's what I was thinking John, but I couldn't put the AT with it. To me it would be the Santa Fe Super Chief or SFSC! I hope someone else knows... Tom (22 years ago, 20-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) "Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe" The full name of the Sante Fe railway, but means the same as "Sante Fe". -John (22 years ago, 20-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) Please remember I (a train aficionado with a penchant for accuracy) was transcribing this. To me it's their "ATSF model" as it is wearing ATSF (Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, the corporate name of the Santa Fe predecessor component of BNSF) (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) Out of curiosity, what was the_most_common configuration of the SFSC? How many cars of each type? How many B-units, if more than one? Pedro (22 years ago, 21-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) One would rather this 'penchant for accuracy' led you to transcribe what was said at the time... Hey! What? He started it! :) Jason J Railton (22 years ago, 21-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) That's actually what was said. :-) Nice try though. (22 years ago, 21-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) Hey, you gotta take the shot when you can. JJ (22 years ago, 21-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) Pedro- It would depend on which time frame you wanted, and the fact that there were other routes besides the most famous Chicago to LA one that used different configs. Here is a helpful link somebody posted a while back about the Super Chief: (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Heck yeah, that helps a bunch! The whole thing just had me baffled and I was worried that I was just having a dumb spell! hehheh (Hey, it happens) I'm glad to know that I'm just not versed in "train" speak and not getting senile! Thanks Lar (22 years ago, 21-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) Huh. When I look up 10020 on shop.lego.com, it tells me that the set is named "Santa Fe Super Chief". So it seems it would be inaccurate to refer to 10020 as anything else. Steve [FUT lugnet.nitpick, if it existed] (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) Actually, technically I think a locomotive can be a train. Normally, anything running on the mainline is a train, whether it is a single locomotive, or a locomotive pulling a number of cars. On the other hand, the Super Chief is the name of a (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Asked and answered, see .trains where this topic has been discussed at length. You may call it the LEGO(r) "Santa Fe Super Chief" if you want, but you'd be just as wrong as they are on this minor point. I can start calling it TSINSFSC if you (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) Right On!!! That means "extra" pieces!!! Purchasing Mulitple copies = multiple clear macaroni pieces!!! extra grey Slopes, and other details... plus, this is an awesome addition to the MOC program, since this set is "lovingly" created by Lego (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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In lugnet.events.brickfest, Larry Pieniazek writes: [snipped unimportant stuff] (...) I totally agree. :) Maybe I'm in the minority, but this is the point that totally surprised me. I don't keep close tabs on lugnet.trains, or maybe I would have (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) You did not miss them being posted, nothing was posted about them prior to Saturday, except for the leaked spy catalog scans. These carried no model designer identification, nor does the new catalog... but the boxes themselves state clearly (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) Even though I no longer work fo the NS, they describe a Train as "an engine or more then one engine coupled with or without cars, displaying a marker." It also says see Rule 19 which basically says on single or multiple engine consists, the (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) You are correct, when viewed from the dispatcher/train order/CTC perspective. An engine "running light" is indeed a train from that perspective. However it's not a Super Chief, no matter the paint color. (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.trains)
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