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Re: Brickish Railways newcomer
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Mon, 5 Nov 2001 12:11:36 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Holger Matthes writes:
> hi Larry,
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> nice to read, that the Desert Express still is in mind of some AFOLs on the
> web. I build the loco as close to the real picture which is also in the
> gallery. I have no idea, if it's an american loco. The Desert Express operates
> in Namibia, south west of Africa. No idea, if the build their own locos
> or were able to get some old americans?
They probably almost certainly did not build them. Building diesels is non
trivial. That loco just LOOKS North American to me, it well could be an
export model. I want to say it looked Alcoish but I could be wrong.
> The first pictures where published on brickshelf just a week before X-Mas, I
> started building it a year ago when I got back my LEGO from Dark Age storage.
And a great first project it was!
> BTW: The an exact copy for the Namibian train company is ready and I just need
> to sort out two weeks of holiday to deliver it **personally** lo Namibia.
> Transnamib invited my on a trip down to Namibia and on the real Desert >Express.
No WAY! They're giving you a trip? (Airfare and all??? Even just the train
part of the trip is cool though) That is SO COOL. Now where's the info on
the South African Blue Train I was thinking of modeling?? GRIN.
So they contacted you then, or you contacted them? I'm hoping Skyline will
do something neat with the kit I sent them... but that was me contacting
them of course.
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> Hopefully that will all happen in March 2002, and there WILL be a great website
> afterwards, I promise!
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> Regards,
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> HoMa
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| (...) All inclusive: flight, Hotel and of course the trip on the real Desert Express. (...) I contacted them after reading about the DX for the first time in the newspaper (Aug. 2000) and I asked for some colored pictures, because there was just an (...) (23 years ago, 5-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) hi Larry, nice to read, that the Desert Express still is in mind of some AFOLs on the web. I build the loco as close to the real picture which is also in the gallery. I have no idea, if it's an american loco. The Desert Express operates in (...) (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.trains)
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