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    Re: Not Kirk, Cook, Cagney or either of the Saints... —John Porter
   <snip> (...) <snip> Hmmm.. You had better not say TOY trains, it is a "Model Railway", not a toy (According to them, anyway, we don't want to get them off-side) Same rule goes for describing the model as a "train set" John (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
   
        Re: Not Kirk, Cook, Cagney or either of the Saints... —Santosh Bhat
   (...) Yeah I've known that they get uptight about such things. But to me a toy is something you have fun with and enjoy. I hope they do have fun with their Model Trains, or why else would they do it? There's real railways out there that need fixing (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
   
        Re: Not Kirk, Cook, Cagney or either of the Saints... —Peter White
   (...) Sadly for them, that is how toy trains came into being, as...TOYS. At least AFOLs don't seem to have that problem. Even in the Lego catalogue, the age range on the top of the page for Mindstorms is 12-99 (a bit sad for all those century (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
 

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