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Re: 10170 TTX Intermodal Double-Stack Car Preview
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Wed, 4 May 2005 12:10:39 GMT
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> I find this interesting, can you quantify or elaborate on what makes a train
> 'train-like' For example what makes a TGV more train like than for example ICE3
> http://www.heinzalbers.org/images/ice3.jpg or Pendolino
> http://www.icrs.org.uk/images/Photogallery/Emmington/Pendolino.jpg
I focussed on the TGV because I think it is more famous than either the ICE3 or
Pendolino. Certainly I had heard of the Shinkansen and TGV long before I'd heard
of the ICE. I can't really qualify beyond that though: succesful design just
seems to work in an intrinsic way. That however may just be me!
> B: European stock is becoming more harmogenised. The class 66 (an EMD product
> btw http://www.deakmodellsport.hu/n/d11761_n.jpg) is spreading across Europe as
> a favorite of the private freight hauliers, the Germans, Swiss and Austrians all
> have varieties of the same electric locos (DB class 152
> http://www.finnmoller.dk/rail-de/db152033.jpg)
The Class 66 would definitely make a good model. Its a nice train and I'd love
to see one 'in the flesh'.
> Living in the UK with the preesent state of the railways I'm not suprised!
I'm in Manchester so it's not too bad but that is a fair point ;-)
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> > NB. This is not an attack on anyone, merely my own experience but I figure that
> > as a non-USA, non-European I can offer a slightly unbiased view.
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> As an Australian presumably you're more used to US style motive power but with
> European (specifically British) 'ways of doing things' in railway terms. (not
> disparaging your unbiasedness ;-) )
I think we get a lot of both worlds really. Freight tends to be the sort of
slow, high-powered US type (for covering large distances I guess) while most of
our electric trains are European (a lot of British but, for example, the Qld
Tilt Train
<http://www.railpage.org.au/pix/electric/Tilt-train_Roma-St_10-9-98.jpg> is a
modified TGV if I remember correctly and the trains in Brisbane are Danish
design). Nothing is quite so simple since we run on our own unique guages
though-narrow gauge in Qld would not be the simplest to model in Lego.
Thanks for the comments (again to everyone) and especially for the history and
pictures.
Tim
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| (...) I can satisfy the first part :-) (URL) The real ones run every day along the line south from Derby, probably 2 an hour, along with probably another 2 goods trains with other locos and several DMUs and HSTs. Mark (19 years ago, 4-May-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) I find this interesting, can you quantify or elaborate on what makes a train 'train-like' For example what makes a TGV more train like than for example ICE3 (URL) or Pendolino (URL) I don't think it helps that the trains differ from country to (...) (19 years ago, 4-May-05, to lugnet.trains)
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