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Re: New trains and wagon bases
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lugnet.trains
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Date:
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Mon, 21 May 2001 15:18:14 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Jason J. Railton writes:
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> > 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).
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> Freight and crane uses three 28 stud reds for the locomotive and both long
> flat cars, I believe, or so I interpret the instructions.
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/4000/4565/
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> 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.
Those short plates are of no use for passenger cars. Too bad they don't
make them in 40 stud length.
KL
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| (...) Freight and crane uses three 28 stud reds for the locomotive and both long flat cars, I believe, or so I interpret the instructions. (URL) 24 stud wagon plate appears in blue in 4555. I can't recall off hand if it has the 2x4 ridge you refer (...) (23 years ago, 21-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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