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Re: MOC Streamliner Observation Car
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Date: 
Tue, 3 Jun 2003 06:44:05 GMT
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  What's "The Tin Men" about?  Never heard of it.

Tin Men

http://us.imdb.com/Details?0094155

Not a train movie but very funny all the same ... why did aluminium become cheap
in the US at that time? In the 1950s.

Steve



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  Re: MOC Streamliner Observation Car
 
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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  Re: MOC Streamliner Observation Car
 
(...) 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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