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Re: what is the use of a caboose?
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Date: 
Tue, 24 Jul 2001 16:15:23 GMT
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Larry,
You mentioned in the Train Summit thread (
http://news.lugnet.com/trains/?n=9509 )
that the lead Lego Train Designer, Jorn Kristian Thomsen,  was in
attendance. Are the new My Own Trains his work?

Bryan

"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message
news:GGzFL7.xJ@lugnet.com...
In lugnet.trains, Robert Fay writes:
The caboose is a warm place to rest and heat up some beans and make a pot • of
coffee.

True (or was true back in the old days)

It also is a very good model.

False. It's a better model than recent TLC efforts but it's not "very • good".
Search the net and you'll find far better. Mike Walsh has one for sale • that
is way better, in part because it has the right number of axles to hit the
average (4 wheel bobbers were very rare in real life).



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(...) I'm not Larry (insert your own comment here!), but I'll toss out an answer anyway: I don't know if Jorn designed the all the MOT sets, but I'll bet he did. He has been pretty much the *only* train designer for several years. It was fun to (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)

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  Re: what is the use of a caboose?
 
(...) True (or was true back in the old days) (...) False. It's a better model than recent TLC efforts but it's not "very good". Search the net and you'll find far better. Mike Walsh has one for sale that is way better, in part because it has the (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)

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