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Re: Nominations for a trainset poll
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Thu, 5 May 2005 15:17:36 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Tim David wrote:
   Following the long and rambling thread on the doublestack car one thing that came up (1) that inspired me was the idea of a ‘famous trains’ series.

Purely for the sake of entertainment I’m looking for people to suggest ideas for hypothetical sets. I’m suggesting two categories

• A standalone loco set to be followed later by a maximum of TWO suitable rolling stock sets (these can be build-able as different variations as per the Santa Fe coaches).


How about the Raymond Loewy Streamliner? (Sorry, not up to a lot of detail with my trains--I’d like to see more train structures (i.e. bridges, stations, water tower, etc....)

Scott Lyttle



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  Re: Nominations for a trainset poll
 
(...) Can you be more specific? Loewy was responsible for a LOT of great stuff... the E unit, the PA, the GG1, and many other things were either designed by him or strongly influenced... (20 years ago, 6-May-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)

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  Nominations for a trainset poll
 
Following the long and rambling thread on the doublestack car one thing that (URL) came up> (1) that inspired me was the idea of a 'famous trains' series. Purely for the sake of entertainment I'm looking for people to suggest ideas for hypothetical (...) (20 years ago, 5-May-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)  

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