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(...) Hello Tim, How about a theme like "Inner City Transportation". Besides trains, planes and automobiles, people in cities tend to use other means of transportation to get around. I am thinking of the following types of sets: 1. A taxi or (...) (16 years ago, 7-Jul-08, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Maybe more like "Mass Transit"? That could be lumped in with the trains (trains, buses, and a streetcar could use train track, just have some additional plates to place between the tracks to cover the railroad ties.. Additionally, I'd love to (...) (16 years ago, 8-Jul-08, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Actually, for the 3d set I was more thinking along the lines of the monorail system lego sold in the early '90's (like the 6399 Airport Shuttle). Something like this takes up less space than a train layout and is different. I know there are (...) (16 years ago, 9-Jul-08, to lugnet.town)
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(...) The thing is, with the now somewhat more realistically sized cars, trucks, planes and so on the scale of the old monorail is even more off-scale than the 6wide trains always were. Thus, any kind of monorail would have to be in the range of (...) (16 years ago, 9-Jul-08, to lugnet.town)
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(...) I'd agree that kids are less likely to use railways nowadays, but that doesn't mean they have no interest. The thing I think needs to be stressed is that if you ask a group of kids to draw a train, they don't draw diesel haulage locos or (...) (16 years ago, 14-Jul-08, to lugnet.town)
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