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Re: Burlington Northern's shiny aluminum stream-liner was called?
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 20 Aug 2002 00:56:19 GMT
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In article <H13wt3.Ktv@lugnet.com>, "Dan" <outsailing86@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, Christopher Masi writes:
> > I am embarrassed to admit it. I forgot the name of the shiny aluminum
> > stream-liner that Burling Northern used to run years ago. It was
> > Burlington Northern, right?
> > Anyway, when I saw all the chrome on the new Naboo Fighter I found it
> > hard not to dream about a shiny Burlington Northern (insert train's name
> > here) running around my tracks. I though, "Heck, LEGO Direct (LD)
> > already has a working relationship with BNSF. LD did BNSF's Santa Fe
> > Super Cheif, why not go back and say, 'Hey, can we do a model of your
> > Burlington Northern (insert tain's name here)?'"
> > OK, I doubt it will happen, if it did the train would be *expensive*,
> > but heck it is fun to dream....
> >
> > Chris
> are you thinking of the pionneer zephyr in the 1930's?
> dan
Yep, that is the one. To make certain that we were talking about the
same thing I Googled it.
http://www.msichicago.org/exhibit/zephyr/
and there it is. Also, I was wrong. According to this page the Zephyr
was stainless steel, not aluminum.
Thanks for the reminder.
Chris
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