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Re: New trains and wagon bases
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 22 May 2001 13:30:23 GMT
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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 waggon plate: <http://www.peeron.com/inv/parts/6584>.
Which has more information than has been reported here. ;)
Steve
In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > 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.
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/4000/4555/4555-10.html
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> > So, it did have a new piece in, after all...
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> 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.
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> ++Lar
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| (...) ya, ya, whatever, stop confusing me with facts. Seriously, Peeron is an excellent resource, and is getting better all the time as more stuff is inventoried. Should have thought to check there first. ++Lar (23 years ago, 22-May-01, to lugnet.trains)
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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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