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Re: Lego train article in Garden Railways magazine
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Sat, 1 Sep 2001 14:32:19 GMT
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My recollection of the trains at LEGOLAND California was that the gauge was larger than No. 1. I also remember the rail
looking like rectangular aluminum stock with much of it fastened in concrete, although some of the "country" scenes had
ties, as noted below. The wheels and trucks appeared to be custom for LEGO, and were quite spartan with no sideframes
on locomotives or cars. Some pics of my trip can be seen here:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=512
This pic shows the rails in concrete without ties. Much of the "industrial" area was like this:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=5290
This pic is over exposed, but you can see that there are ties:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=5259
The wheels and trucks with inside bearings (i.e., no sideframes) can be seen in this pic:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=5257
Also not the couplers, or lack of couplers. They cars were connected with simple drawbars.
"Katie Dokken" <krdokken@usinternet.com> wrote in message news:GIxtos.Iw4@lugnet.com...
> 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.
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