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Re: MOC Streamliner Observation Car
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 3 Jun 2003 22:47:24 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Stefan Garcia wrote:
> 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?
I heard it was due to cheap electricity in the NW part of the US. Bauxite
smelting can make good use of cheap electricity.
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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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