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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Jason J. Railton writes:
> > In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Calum Tsang writes:
> > > I've never really liked the My Own Train cars. They're far too American for
> > > my tastes
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> In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > That's really weird! A lot of US proto modelers find them rather more
> > european than they care for. Must be they're actually somewhere in the
> > middle, in the zone where they don't look 100% right to either camp.
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> Larry - we said the same about the engines when they came out. I think TLC
> have aimed for the middle-ground and missed! Let's face it, no-one's going
> to own up to having these engines in their country. They're pretty good
> sets, nevertheless.
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> I think the green carriage, caboose and engines could just about pass
> themselves off as early American (though maybe only in cowboy movies rather
> than any genuine period of history) or early European. For Europe, the
> carriage seems to have the style you'd expect of a railway in some mountain
> region. The stoves in the caboose and carriage are typical of long
> _duration_ journeys, rather than the quicker mainline services that most
> people would be familiar with. Hauling up some Swiss mountain pass maybe,
> rather than trying to break a record for London to Derby.
Just to prolong the issue for no good reason (apart from perhaps stopping
newbies asking the same question again ;-) my Dad reckons that the MOT train
set/bundle from Shop@Home looks like the sort of thing you get chugging
around Africa. So, there's a whole continent we missed.
Jason J Railton
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| (...) Yea, they do bear some resemblance to a Beyer-Garrat, but if we look for weird things they might look like, they actually look most like a Shay, Heisler, or Climax (or a few other less well known geared locomotives). Of course without the (...) (22 years ago, 21-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Larry - we said the same about the engines when they came out. I think TLC have aimed for the middle-ground and missed! Let's face it, no-one's going to own up to having these engines in their country. They're pretty good sets, nevertheless. I (...) (22 years ago, 18-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.trains)
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