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Subject: 
Points (was: Re: How will Ben top last year? (summit talk?))
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Date: 
Mon, 26 Mar 2001 12:00:57 GMT
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The tooling for new points to replace the current ones would be hugely
expensive. I know we asked for new points with better geometry and with a
better mechanical linkage to make it easier to automate them, but I am not
expecting them for a while, if ever. A lot of other stuff has to happen to
make trains more valuable to TLC before I would see them investing the
tooling for such a huge part

Couldnt TLG go back to the less stiff points they used to use, i.e. undo
whatever change they made? Wouldnt that help those wishing to mechanise their
points?



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  Re: How will Ben top last year? (summit talk?)
 
(...) Except for kidding around, I've been fairly careful, because if one indeed says "no" to the no things and "no comment" to the yes things, one IS giving information. To be correct, one has to say "no comment" to everything, yes OR no. And I (...) (24 years ago, 26-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains)

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