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Re: Strange rails
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Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:04:06 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Jordan Schwarz wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, Jason J Railton wrote:
> > In lugnet.trains, Beat Felber wrote:
> > > Hello Train Experts
> > >
> > > Just recently I bought some 70s bulk material containing homemaker figures,
> > > steered trucks and the like as well as some 4.5V and early 12V train stuff.
> > >
> > > Usually one expects to find blue rails with old 4.5V stuff. I did so but I also
> > > found 40 (forty) RED straight 16L rails of the type 3228a as well as a BLACK
> > > one.
> > >
> > > I immediately checked peeron to find out more about these parts but couldn't
> > > find any hints. On bricklink are none of them for sale. Therefore my question:
> > > Does anybody have any idea where these red and the black rails may come from?
> > >
> > > The parts are obviously molded in this color and not painted.
> > >
> > > Thanks for any hints and best regards from Switzerland where it just started to
> > > snow.
> > >
> > > Beat
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> > That's a novelty!
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> > They could be pre-production models. There have been some unusual parts in red
> > before (e.g. the minifig ghost shroud) - test mouldings made by Lego before a
> > part goes into mass production.
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> > Jason R
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> There's a pretty comprehensive article on the red test moldings at
> http://www.lucajuventino.altervista.org/lego/red_track.htm
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> As the article notes, test moldings are often done in red because it is the most
> difficult color to mold. Hence, Jason's theory makes a lot of sense. It is
> surprising that LEGO would do 40 test moldings of a rail, but that is a
> possibility, I guess.
Hi Beat!
LEGO makes test molding for each molding device, so it's clear that many proof
parts are molded. The rails you have, are like the one I own (with the only
difference that my one is for 9V). The black one is surprising because red is
the most used color, but not the only one. I've already seen proofs made out of
green granulate too.
Luca Giannitti
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| Thanks for the pics Luca! Interestingly enough this topic recently came up for discussion. I have a 1:87 scale car garage (first released November 1961) with a red door (Phil Traviss of UK also has one). Even though all catalogs of the early 1960's (...) (18 years ago, 25-Jan-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) There's a pretty comprehensive article on the red test moldings at (URL) the article notes, test moldings are often done in red because it is the most difficult color to mold. Hence, Jason's theory makes a lot of sense. It is surprising that (...) (18 years ago, 23-Jan-07, to lugnet.trains)
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