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Re: What's your Favourite Train?
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Thu, 27 Mar 2003 14:29:30 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Calum Tsang writes:
> I don't like the step. The single curve is much nicer!
I dont know what you mean...?
> > Does anyone else love the Turbo as much as me?!
> You're on your own there... :) We love the Turbo Train because it's
> Canadian and the technologies it represented (sort of like the Avro Arrow),
> but not because of the nose. It looks like a frickin moose.
It's got a big red nose like a happy cartoon puppy. Love it! My dad told
me all about the Turbo when I was little because we saw an HO Scale one at
one of the train shows. He and my mom always used to see them flying up the
corridor when they were going back and forth to University.
When I ride the Turbo, I sit in the Turboluxe cafe.
Iain
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| (...) The first generation TGVs have a different angle for the windshield and the nose. This creates a "step" in the profile: (URL) new Duplex and PBKA Thalys have a single curve: (URL) no rationale there, I just like the new profile over the old (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) I know. So are the PBA Thalys as well. The new Duplex and PBKA Thalys have the new nose. (...) I don't like the step. The single curve is much nicer! (...) You're on your own there... :) We love the Turbo Train because it's Canadian and the (...) (22 years ago, 26-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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