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Re: Santa Fe distribution pattern
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Thu, 28 Feb 2002 08:12:46 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Derek Raycraft writes:
> In lugnet.trains, William R. Ward writes:
> > Based on the way Brad Justus described the situation, I doubt that
> > there will be any pattern in the end.  He said they grabbed the first
> > five off the production line because that was the only way to be sure
> > they got the first five.  So I'm thinking that the rest of them are
> > all jumbled up together...
> 
> My guess is that when we have enough sets registered to see the final pattern
> it will tell us how many sets there are on a pallet.

The devisions between North-America and Europe are already closly converging
towards ...000 numbers, so I would say that number is 100.

> The sets will come off the line and be put in boxes, the boxes will be placed
> on a pallet.  A pallet would be the smallest shipping unit, so a certain >number of pallets will go to north america and a certain number will go to the
> distribution center for europe and any other distribution centers they have.
> 
> The pallets will probably get mixed up as they are put into the warehouse and
> removed from the warehouse prier to shipping to the distribution centers.

Or they made sure and preformed a small ballet with a few forklifttrucks.

With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen.



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  Re: Santa Fe distribution pattern
 
(...) My guess is that when we have enough sets registered to see the final pattern it will tell us how many sets there are on a pallet. The sets will come off the line and be put in boxes, the boxes will be placed on a pallet. A pallet would be the (...) (25 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)

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