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On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Larry Pieniazek (<FyDE6y.IFo@lugnet.com>) wrote at 19:01:46 (...) I hate to be iconoclastic, but see James' other post. LNER 4472 'Flying Scotsman' (but it's a train as well :-) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Check out this updated US LTC Map... (URL) has all the URL's I know of at the moment. Eric Kingsley The New England LEGO Users Group (URL) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi, I'm looking for the URL's of all the American Train clubs, as there are GMLTC,PNLTC,.. Who can send me the URL's of those locations? You can send them to me at : ludo.soete@village.uunet.be Thanks a lot; Ludo (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I did... And MS didn't!!! The Flying Scotsman is a train (*!*), not an engine. (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) of (...) Scotsman... (...) Exactly my point, thanks for the confirmation. Although the MS flacks did qualify it by saying "arguably", they're no more entitled to claim what's famous than you or I are. And arguably less, since they're just (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Richard: (...) This turns out to be mostly not true. You can indeed date bricks, not precisely to the day they were molded but the more common elements have went through many variations. Ask Gary Istok, one of the experts in this area, or root (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, you can date bricks to some degree. I have some bricks that I know are from the 60s because they're CA. (...) The uniqueness factor certainly is a good point. I just hope the owners of the parts for three incomplete Guarded Inns (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) Hehehe...4472 (The Flying Scotsman) _is_ a individual loco, as well as describing a class (A1 Gresley Pacific), and the train. I would say it is as well known _around the world_ if not better than any other engine. It is one of 2 locos I know (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) OK, give me a _name_ or _number_ of a equally famous US _engine_, without looking it up. Not Class/Train name, but _engine_ name. (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Part of me would bet on The General. Reason? It's been featured in at least one movie, and as we know, US movies get circulated the world over (for good or bad). (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) <snip list of one UK, on German and 7 US steam locos> I doubt if any of us is qualified to even suggest what is the worlds most famous steam loco, if one goes by the number of people worldwide who have heard of it. Who knows which the millions (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Posted w/permission from: (URL) HIS WHISTLE This fellow who had spent his whole life in the desert comes to visit a friend. He'd never seen a train or the tracks they run on. While standing in the middle of the RR tracks one day, he hears this (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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[this should be FUT'ed to somewhere else, but I'm just briefly jumping in, someone else can take the ng-management lead] (...) Good point. There was a very nice discussion about 'what is the soul of a set?' some time ago. (...) Guarded Inn is (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) J2 is right again. While the train itself may be famous (but arguably, the Orient Express is more famous) the locomotive is no great shakes, and there were more than one of them, with nothing to make one particular instance stand out (it says (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I'm talking about trains, silly boy, not what you were thinking of. After all, although 8 wide is "morally wrong"(1), it feels good to you and you do it. What's neat about trains is that there are prototypes for a lot of really weird things, (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) in (...) Car - again these very difficult question, collecting or building :-) BTW, anyone has those windows (clear) and want to sell or trade :-) ??? grüßle a. (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Interesting that it takes that long to reset. When I was a kid, I had a train powerpack which used some kind of overload cutoff which reset fairly quickly. I think it was basically a bi-metal strip (which bends when the temperature gets too (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Ben, (...) other (...) 4559 (...) assembly mode! : ) Scott "Who will set up a train layout one year!!!!!" S. -- Systems Administrator-Affiliated Engineers -> (URL) Page -> (URL) LEGO Parts at Great Prices? Visit The Sanburn Systems Company! (URL) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Or much cheaper in level crossing 4532 (URL) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Hello, (...) windows - (...) sets (...) You can try this set, I don't know how available it is anymore. It is 4559 Cargo Railway. (URL) S. -- Systems Administrator-Affiliated Engineers -> (URL) Page -> (URL) LEGO Parts at Great Prices? Visit The (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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