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Re: What is the most common color used in our train MOC's?
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Thu, 26 Jul 2001 16:59:51 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Ed McGlynn writes:
In lugnet.trains, Harvey Henkelman writes:
I've been doing a lot of LEGO® web surfing over the past week, and of all
the colors we use to create our trains- we seem to find red the most
agreeable. Can it be that red is an ominous color that gives our 'big'
engines size? Or is it a plainly acknowledged railway color in itself?
Perhaps our most influential LEGO® sets (i.e. 4551, 4563) has set the tone
for us. Anyway, this is just my observation-didn't mean to submit another
pointless topic for discussion. -Harvey

--Praise be to all the 'Big Red' engines out there, may they cruise the
rails for years to come...


That makes me think...LEGOLand CA has a Big Red on their layout...
http://www.geocities.com/ejmcglynn/photos/big_red.jpg

Diesel MOCs may be red, but steam's fav is black.
Ed

Yahoo says the page is unavailable...
Josh



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  Re: What is the most common color used in our train MOC's?
 
(...) As always with Yahoo/Geocities, they don't let you look at linked pictures, but you can "type" the URL in and it works. Just cut and paste the URL (or you may be able to do what I do at work - click on the URL, get Yahoo's "you can't do that (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)
  Re: What is the most common color used in our train MOC's?
 
(...) Click the link, then when it comes up saying unavailable, cut the filename off the end, and go to that page. Then paste the filename back on and you will be there, or just browse the directory directly from there. Play well. Tim Strutt 8^) (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)
  Re: What is the most common color used in our train MOC's?
 
(...) Geocities/yahoo is weird, or maybe it's netscape. Link doesn't work while using netscape...cut & paste link into IE, I can view the picture...cut & paste the link from IE into netscape and I can view the picture. I was very irratated with that (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)

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(...) That makes me think...LEGOLand CA has a Big Red on their layout... (URL) MOCs may be red, but steam's fav is black. Ed (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)

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