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Subject:	Re: 20 (yes TWENTY) new trains at LEGO.com/Shop - Themes \| Trains
Newsgroups:	lugnet.trains
Date:	Tue, 24 Apr 2001 08:59:51 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes: > In lugnet.trains, Jason J. Railton writes: > > > And, sorry Larry, but I reckon they look early American. The desert > > background suggests that TLC think so too. > > Feel free to provide a cite. > > ++Lar It's not so much the design as the colour scheme. The configuration of the ones without tenders is pretty European, but the large cabs on the tender engines and the panelled style is typically American - European engines tended to be more uniform in colour and have smaller cabs compared to the rest of the engine - shorter journeys after all. Jason J Railton

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		Re: 20 (yes TWENTY) new trains at LEGO.com/Shop - Themes \| Trains
(...) We're not arguing about anything important. They are what they are. I think we could agree that they're not representative of anything in particular. That said, you're wrong. :-) Let's put it this way. To this American, they don't look (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)

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		Re: 20 (yes TWENTY) new trains at LEGO.com/Shop - Themes \| Trains
(...) Feel free to provide a cite. The two truck (larger) one looks a bit like a Shay (in which case the background ought to be a forest, with logging going on) but other than that, no. ++Lar (24 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains)

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