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Just looked at these recent pictures of train set boxes on Brickshelf: (URL) Looking at the pictures for 7750: (URL) (both inset pictures) and (URL) (bottom left picture) These pictures appear to show a larger train wheel, presumably a prototype for (...) (20 years ago, 12-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Mark, Those train wheels were never released to the public, although they appear in lots of vintage photos. They have been mentioned before: (URL) that helps, Clark (20 years ago, 13-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) vintage photos, and discussed several times here. But I have never seen photos of these LARGE 12 spoked trainwheels before, as seen on the rear of the box from set 7750. (I never had a 7750, so I have never seen the box up close). It is known (...) (20 years ago, 13-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) (URL) to me they're in use here? (20 years ago, 14-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) These are (URL) which have no flanges. The parts in question are a slightly larger? version of the ones in 7750 with gaps between the spokes. Tim (20 years ago, 15-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I was referring to the ones at the very rear of the locomotive in the foreground of the picture. (20 years ago, 15-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Those look to me to be the ones that actually came in the 7750 set (not the ones that started this thread that are in the small pics on the 7750 box), they have no gap between the spokes (i.e. the spoke are just relief moulded on a disk (...) (20 years ago, 15-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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what about the front & rear ones on this train? (URL) (20 years ago, 18-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Bruce (20 years ago, 18-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) BBB. These wheels are awsome. The have the look and feel of the older LEGO train wheels, but the newer 9v wheel geometry for the tyre and flang. (URL) Mat (20 years ago, 18-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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