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Re: New trains and wagon bases
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 21 May 2001 16:32:05 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/
> <snip>
It's actually 2 and 2. 2 - 24's, and 2 - 28's.
> ++Lar
Rich
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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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