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Re: Received 9V old dark grey track from online PAB
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:55:52 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Rafe Donahue wrote:
> In lugnet.announce.lsahs, Jonathan Lopes wrote:
> > I don't know if anyone has ordered the track from online PAB, but I have and I
> > have recvd 9V, old dark grey, track today. I think it is a decent deal for
> > $1.50 per section. (I recvd 10 straights).
> >
> > The drag is that this time I actually wanted the plastic remote track in dark
> > bley. (as a gift for a friends son who recvd the remote freight train over the
> > holidays - I do realize the 9v track will work with it.) I called and suggested
> > they might want to clearly specify which version is in PAB so others don't have
> > the same issue.
> >
> > Happily, they offered to send me the plastic remote track that I had wanted.
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> I just visited the PaB online and ordered some track. I went to the PaB and
> searched by color: 'grey'. It listed 10 items in the 'grey family'. Ten items
> was too few so I told it to show me 500. Buried in the list was 'curved rail
> 22.5 degrees' and 'left switch' and 'right switch' and 'straight rail'. So I
> clicked 'straight rail' and it told me the color family was 'grey' but the
> *exact color* was 'dark grey'. Both of these were links. So, clicking on 'dark
> grey' showed me these four track types; ergo, all the 9v track types are
> (supposedly) in old dark grey! (I guess we'll see how long that lasts.)
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> Anyway, to confirm, I picked a different piece in the grey family, like the Arch
> 1x6x2. It came up in the grey family but as exact color of medium stone grey.
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> So, summary:
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> It is possible to find the exact color, in this case, dark grey. And, the four
> 9V track types are all in dark grey, at least for a while...
The part selection comes straight from the Digital Designer palette. LEGO have
put little notes in the Shop-at-Home catalogue (at least in the UK) promoting 9V
trains as 'Hobby Trains', where they explain that LDD still uses the 9V system
of motors and track.
Jason R
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| (...) I just visited the PaB online and ordered some track. I went to the PaB and searched by color: 'grey'. It listed 10 items in the 'grey family'. Ten items was too few so I told it to show me 500. Buried in the list was 'curved rail 22.5 (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-07, to lugnet.trains)
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