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Re: Pics: Life-size Thomas
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 2 May 2002 12:25:02 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, John Neal writes:
> Don't know all of the particulars about this Thomas, but he came to
> Minneapolis last weekend and the weekend before (snowed *both*
> weekends!) I do know that he is a dummy (a hard-working GP-7 pushed him
> around from the rear). Ross (my son) said that the boiler was hollow
> and that there was a folding chair in it! But he was faithfully
> reproduced to resemble the TV series Thomas very closely, and he looked
> really good.
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> Ross grew up on Thomas and his love of trains could probably be traced
> to this cheeky little engine. Though most of the kids in attendance
> were around the age of 4, I *had* to bring Ross:-) Here are some shots
> of him and Thomas together:
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=7051
He looks like the same Thomas that visits the Strasburg Railroad twice a
year (coming in June):
http://www.strasburgrailroad.com/event_junethomas.htm
The engine is functional.
-Rob.
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| (...) Well, I'd hope they'd look the same;-) (...) Cool! We were a little disappointed that ours was just for show. The guy says to me, "Eh, we hide the real engine in the back, the kids don't care if he's operational or not". Maybe so. It was (...) (23 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| Don't know all of the particulars about this Thomas, but he came to Minneapolis last weekend and the weekend before (snowed *both* weekends!) I do know that he is a dummy (a hard-working GP-7 pushed him around from the rear). Ross (my son) said that (...) (23 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.trains)
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