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(...) ... oh OK, don't get much chance to see Lionel stuff overe here!!! (...) Thanks for the prototype info ... Its cool to learn stuff like this ...I always thought it was aluminium ... but I guess the fad for all thing aluminium came later in the (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yeah, I hadn't thought about that. And I made a slight error in my observation; I kept thinking your observation was closed-end, not open end. In which case the manufacturer would be K-Line for O gauge. They have the same effect though. (...) (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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What's "The Tin Men" about? Never heard of it. Tin Men (URL) a train movie but very funny all the same ... why did aluminium become cheap in the US at that time? In the 1950s. Steve (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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Thanks for the link. As for why aluminum became so cheap, not sure. Maybe there was a lot of scrap metal from WWII being recycled? -Stefan- (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I heard it was due to cheap electricity in the NW part of the US. Bauxite smelting can make good use of cheap electricity. (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) All that stainless steel (trains) aluminium (houses) and chrome (automobiles) must have made the the US citizens of the 50's "shiny happy people"!!! ... and these chrome bricks do it for me now! Lets have some more ..... (21 years ago, 4-Jun-03, to lugnet.trains)
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