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| (...) I hear they'll be moving their headquarters to Florida. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| Speaking of which, we *desperately* need a larger radius curve piece. I'm seriously considering building my own curves, but GAD, the work involved! (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains)
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| Yes RIS 1.5 costs $20 MORE than RIS1.0. It's a good thing I bought 9 RIS 1.0 and the 1.5 upgrade ;-) (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| Seriously, what are you going to do when TLC introduces their new line of 8 wides trains? It's inevitable. Evolution and all that jazz... I mean, if TLC would get serious about producing model train sets, would you want them 6 wide and toylike? Why (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains)
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| Even if it was $0.20 by the time it is productized it is maybe $1.00. Multiply this by the quantity sold and you just save ~$500,000 (whatever the quantity is). When designing computer mother boards there will be large debates over $0.05 BOM (bill (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| (...) savings (...) Well, lets think, a rectification bridge, a voltage regulator, and an external power connector. In 'trade' quantities, you are talking well under 50 cents (probably more like 20 cents). If Lego are paying much more than this for (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| I think the standard UP colors debuted in the mid/late 30s. I have a brochure from (19)36 that shows those colors, although it doesn't actually have a picture of a train to verify that they were painting the trains those colors that early. -- Have (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) In other words, they're not overweight, they're undertall! ;) Jeff (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.fl, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) My forte' is more along the lines of green engines :) Ones with Castle, Saint, Hall type names :) That or LMS stuff (Black 5's, Princesses and so on) I'd have to dig through what little I have left on US railways ( I gave away my MR collection (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| Not quite...it is CN and BNSF. :( although, I can see why. The Canadian railways have always had some US feeder lines (CN owned CV and GTW (CN used to be GT :) ). It makes sense, since the 2 railways in Canada compete with each other, and then the (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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