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Re: 10170 TTX Intermodal Double-Stack Car Preview
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 3 May 2005 22:28:28 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Mark Bellis wrote:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/mbellis/Trains/Scenery/maersk_container_ba_agm_2004.jpg
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if I can find a suitable British prototype low-loader container wagon I might
buy a few sets. I guess few people would buy more than 5 sets though, as two
consists of 5 is enough for most layouts!
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Doing a halfway decent intermodal terminal (portside or just a flatyard like the
ones around Chicago) will chew up a LOT of copies of this set even after you
selectively compress down from 50 tracks of 100 car trains to 5 tracks of 20 car
trains, I suspect.
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It’s different for the tanker and
hopper wagons, since they tend to run in long trains.
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In the UK perhaps. Hoppers run in long trains here (or coal gons) but tankers?
hardly ever. Plus the LEGO tanker is out of scale for the rest of the line.
++Lar
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| (...) I think what he means (and what I'd also like to know) is: Are there enough spare parts in the set to turn the two end bogies into another middle bogie, so that one set can be re-arranged to extend a consist by two pockets. Then two sets could (...) (20 years ago, 3-May-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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