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Re: Lego train article in Garden Railways magazine
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Fri, 31 Aug 2001 15:57:06 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Katie Dokken writes:
> I apologize if this has been posted before but I just got my October 2001
> issue of Garden Railways magazine (for G scale/Gauge 1 trains) in the mail
> last night. Right on the front page is a reference to an article called
> "Miniature Gardening at Legoland." The point of the article is more about
> the miniature landscaping done at Legoland but there are quite a few really
> nice pictures of Legoland, with the emphasis on the Legoland trains and some
> details about the trains as well. While it didn't say..... from the
> pictures I'm assuming that the Legoland trains are built to one of the
> various G scales (or are they O scale?)? Can anybody give me more
> information about this? And what kind of trucks are used on the
> engines/rolling stock? And what kind of track is being used? It looked
> like it was handlaid vs. a major manufacturer such as Aristocraft or LGB.
The only thing I remember from my visit a few years ago to Billund was that
the width of the cars was 18 studs.
Steve Martin
IndyLUG
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| (...) Sadly, the Legoland (at least California) train framework (track and trucks) is pretty lame. The track is strips of metal set vertcally in concrete (no ties, nowhere near the shape of real rail) and doesn't have working turnouts (points). The (...) (23 years ago, 31-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| I apologize if this has been posted before but I just got my October 2001 issue of Garden Railways magazine (for G scale/Gauge 1 trains) in the mail last night. Right on the front page is a reference to an article called "Miniature Gardening at (...) (23 years ago, 31-Aug-01, to lugnet.trains)
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