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Re: New trains and wagon bases
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Mon, 21 May 2001 12:19:59 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Jason J. Railton writes:
> I thought that the base plate of the new long trains looked like a different
> moulding - the underside has a 2x4 ridge outlined in the centre, unlike the
> older version which just had a large cluster of rings.
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> But mainly, it's 4 studs shorter than the service pack wagon base - only 24
> studs, not 28. (I gather that some of the red wagon plates are even longer,
> at 30 studs - can anyone tell me if these are from the current freight &
> crane railway (4565), or the old service pack).
Freight and crane uses three 28 stud reds for the locomotive and both long
flat cars, I believe, or so I interpret the instructions.
http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/4000/4565/
A 24 stud wagon plate appears in blue in 4555. I can't recall off hand if it
has the 2x4 ridge you refer to but would bet it is the same part.
http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/4000/4555/4555-10.html
> So, it did have a new piece in, after all...
Maybe. But I doubt it. New color for an existing piece, perhaps. But that
volume and price point is hard to hit if tooling costs for that large a
piece have to be amortized. Or so I speculate.
++Lar
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| "Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:GDoq9B.Hnv@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) it (...) The black 6x24 wagon plate also appeared in 2126 ((URL) Walsh - mike_walsh at mindspring dot com (URL) - North (...) (24 years ago, 21-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) It's actually 2 and 2. 2 - 24's, and 2 - 28's. (...) Rich -- Have Fun! C-Ya! Legoman34 ***** Legoman34 (Richard W. Schamus)... (My views do not necessarily express the views of my employer...) BRICKFEST 2001 IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER... START (...) (24 years ago, 21-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: New trains and wagon bases
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| Now that y'all are done hashing this out, I just thought I'd ask: did anyone bother to check Peeron.com? Starting with a search for any of the sets mentioned in this thread (2126, 4555, 4565), you can get a link to the cross-index page for the 6x24 (...) (24 years ago, 22-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| I don't know if anyone else has spotted this yet - maybe you all have, and no-one's bothered to mention it, or maybe no-one's taken their MOT apart yet... I thought that the base plate of the new long trains looked like a different moulding - the (...) (24 years ago, 21-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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