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Re: What are the most valuable Service Packs?
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Date: 
Fri, 13 Aug 1999 14:55:40 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Mark Harrison writes:
The 396 Thatcher Perkins engine is classed as a "carpet" train as it has a • guage
which is unsuitable for the standard lego train guage. It was designed to go
anywhere the child wanted to push it.

I _do_ have a firm grasp of the obvious :) (though the 396's gauge is
narrower than you'd expect from looking at the pictures)
- I was asking about the (apparently not) unique rod/piston parts.

BTW, where's the panic about the upcoming end of service packs?




Mark H.

"G. Benedikt Rochow" wrote:

But how *are* these different from the ones used in several period



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The 396 Thatcher Perkins engine is classed as a "carpet" train as it has a guage which is unsuitable for the standard lego train guage. It was designed to go anywhere the child wanted to push it. Mark H. (...) (25 years ago, 13-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

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