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Re: 10170 TTX Intermodal Double-Stack Car Preview
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Tue, 3 May 2005 18:40:22 GMT
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AT@ wrote:
> One thing I find is that American trains generally look more consistent
> and "train"-like to me than European ones (the notable exception to this
> is the TGV). I don't think it helps that the trains differ from country to
> country so much either. Overall, I think if I was a newbie I would favour
> a train like 10020 over most rolling stock from Europe (TGV excepted
> again), likewise 10133.
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> What is distinctly European rolling stock anyway? I live here, I look at
> trains but I find it hard to see something really identifiable and "cool".
Some of Paul Arzens work is typical for Algiers, France, the Netherlands and
even Spain (and no doubt many more, he was the French company Alsthom's
main designer for several decades):
http://trainsdumonde.chez.tiscali.fr/CC7100.htm
And some of his later work
http://surlesrails.free.fr/references/livrees/elec/loc_nc.html
Typical are the striping, and in the second pic the nose shape, which was
supposed to mimic an athlete in action.
Typical German looks:
http://www.db141-133.de.vu/
Square, boxy and only LARGE series is how you could picture the WestGerman
Railways up to the unification
Russian/DDR style diesels:
http://locopage.50megs.com/db232.htm
Ugly, bulky, pure fuctional and of questionable quality ;)
--
Jan-Albert van Ree | http://www.vanree.net/brickpiles/
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| (...) Thanks to everyone who has answered. I think that these Paul Arzens trains are the closest thing to the real answer to my question. They do seem quite a distinctly European (as opposed to a single country) design and I have noted similar (...) (20 years ago, 4-May-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| As an Australian living in the UK I have to weigh in on this debate. (...) Nor do I. If I want realism I'll build it myself. If I want a nice Lego set, I don't care where it comes from (...) One thing I find is that American trains generally look (...) (20 years ago, 3-May-05, to lugnet.trains)
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