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Subject:	Re: Rare parts: Small switch yard engine
Newsgroups:	lugnet.trains
Date:	Wed, 2 Jul 2003 11:15:07 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Niels Karsdorp wrote: > > <http://library.brickshelf.com/scans/0000/0241/0241-33.html> > > What kind of rare parts are used to hold the magnets of the > red engine on this page? > > Niels this has puzzled me since i was a kid. at first glance i thought it was the motorplate from this set: http://guide.lugnet.com/set/720_2 http://library.brickshelf.com/scans/0000/0720-1969/0720-02.html http://library.brickshelf.com/scans/0000/0720-1969/0720-05.html but on a second glance it is a 6x16 plate with two 6x3 sections attached at each end. i presumed these were never released officially. the only grey couplings of that period seem to belong to the 720. i know that was sold in at least 2 versions though (or better i believe to remember) so maybe they differed in some parts. similar to the two versions of the 723 (hm i ought to check the suplementary part sets of that period) i cheated when i built this version: www.tu-bs.de/~y0007612/Pages/Lego-m/render/ib241b3.gif i've just put up the dat files here: www.tu-bs.de/~y0007612/Pages/lego/ltrax/zips/ib240loc.zip notice the motor alignment might be different to the older files. these two presume the motor is at 0 0 0. see the 4ltrax file at the same location for more dats (and stuff for tore's ltrax015). bye/tschuess thomas

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		Re: Rare parts: Small switch yard engine
(...) Hi Thomas, I am convinced you are right. The pictures in the 241 idea book show us definitely pre-production pictures. Therefor they might have used some homebrewd parts for the upcoming 720 baseplate.... I asked for the "view-through" train (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jul-03, to lugnet.trains)

		Re: Rare parts: Small switch yard engine
Sorry for bringing up an old topic again, (...) The rare trainbase seems to be the prototype for the trainbase, which is listed as x902c01 on peeron. Recently I received two of these parts and I have just finished an LDraw part, posted in message (...) (21 years ago, 13-Dec-03, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad)

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		Rare parts: Small switch yard engine
(...) What kind of rare parts are used to hold the magnets of the red engine on this page? Niels (21 years ago, 2-Jul-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)

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