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Greetings: I realize this is a simplistic question but what is your favorite Lego Train set? I am mostly a Lego Castle and Pirate collector but I was looking to get into Lego Trains. I have noticed a few train sets that look good but I was not sure. (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) My favorite train (and probably many others will agree) is 4558 Metroliner. :) Not only does it looks good, but the pieces are very versatile too! It also depends on what kind of trains you like, as in passenger or freight trains. The (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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The best currently availably train set is the 4565 Freight and Crane Railway. The best ever, in nearly everyone's opionion(including mine), is the 4558 Metroliner, but get out about $500 for one MISB. I own one and like it. (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I've got to agree, the 4565 is probally the best train set on the shelves right now...I much prefer the 4559 Cargo Railway to the newer 4561 but 4559s are getting hard to find. If you want a ready to go passenger train your pretty much stuck with (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) My favorite is whatever I just finished designing myself. I'm a better designer (for the adult market) than LEGO are. But then I don't have the same constraints they do and I'm not nearly as constrained by piece count as they are... Currently (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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No, lately MISB 4558s have been going for $350-400. Luckily for me ;-) (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (24 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Sam Pusch <puschs@ameritech.net> schreef in berichtnieuws FpFr6s.Myw@lugnet.com... (...) Train (...) My alltime favorite is the 7740 (URL) Coupled with the 7815 sleeper car and the 7819 mail van this is a very nice train. The reason why I like this (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Ah, but I rounded it to the nearest multiple of $500.;) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) My favourite train set is 4551 (hey, I'm swiss) and I saw a few crocodile in Switzerland and they are sooo impressive. I like also 4563, 4564, 4565. There were "real" lego The 4561 is really not imaginative and good for kid --my son is 6 ;-) (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) It kind of reminds me of a GE Center Cab (or "44 tonner" (1) ) shortline engine. (URL) (corroborates my footnote, below, which shows that I don't just make this stuff up, you know...) (...) Really? Are you sure you weren't hopped up when you (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Sam Pusch wrote in message ... (...) Having come sort of late into the market, I don't have enough knowledge of the earlier sets to make a good determination. Of sets available at retail or through S@H in the past year, my favorite set which (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I like the bulkhead flat better also. Or at least my modified version that is capable of holding 3 4x8 containers (or other 4x8 combinations). This is not to say that I don't have a few Larry Hoppers also. Christopher Good (24 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) It is unusual for North America. I think, however, if you looked at pictures of narrow gauge european engines, that you would find a almost exact prototype for it (austria I think, on OBB) James P (24 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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My favorite: Unlike others' favorite (I guess) 7750 Great design, best electromotor ever (had to build place bricks under the outer curves to prevent the train from tipping over). Greetz, Arjen (24 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Especially with the 7740 vans, 7819 and 7815 it looks great! (24 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) ??!! Bulkhead flats don't hold containers in the prototype, they're typically used in lumber service. If you want a flat that holds containers and you don't want to go doublestack, you should probably make it a piggyback flat. Many of those (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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Seems to me, as if we people in good old Europe have a little different view on trains (exept from James Mathis of course). Like Arjen, most of my frieds like the trains from the early 80ies most. I'm of the opinion 1983 was the greatest year for (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Before getting more requests about the thing above: I was talking of the best Lego-Train-Year 1983. And at that time the 7750 was still in the shelfes..... Regards Ben (24 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) on (...) I lived for 1/2 year in England in 1981. I was 11 years old. At this time I got to see, touch, and experience the LEGO 12volt trains that LEGO USA was, and had been, denying availability in the USA. I was awestruck. I simply couldn't (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes: [with plenty of snippage...] (...) With this in mind, would you be interested/willing to sell the instructions w/o the huge (and ultimately pricey) collection of parts? Maybe a signed/numbered limited (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Sure... how much would you pay? (...) NOW how much would you pay? (...) But wait, there's more! What if I threw in printouts of the bulkhead flat and SWx instructions too? Now how much would you pay? But wait, I'm STILL not done. We'll add a (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Dunno for certain.. I'd hate to pay $20 (for example) for some cheapie B&W photocopies... On the other hand, having ripped your design :) as best I could from photos and one LD image, I can respect the time and effort that went into putting (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I'll just say this. I have an HP 2100. That's a 600 dpi REAL laser printer. So far I have printed all instructions fresh. No photocopies. They look good. Very good. Sometimes I go 2 up to get the paper count to 19 pages printed on 10 pieces of (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yes I realize that, but I haven't found a way to simulate lumber yet where my 4 year old can easily "play" with it. She likes cars where she can remove what they carry and switch them around. So the bulkhead was both sturdy enough for the play (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hmm, somehow I think this HP 2100 is a little more powerfull and usefull than the HP 2100 I learned to program on... (that HP 2100 was essentially a PDP-8 clone). This post just jumped out of the Lugnet summary listings and begged to be (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Most people don't get asked this question... (...) high school assignment, sorry.) I wish my teachers would have asked this type of thing...I just love my Union Pacific diesel switcher. It's tough, speedy and can pull just about anything I (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Send me an email. I could not decode your antispam, and I only have the web interface so am not sure how to see *all* message headers. For all people who bought a hopper before I made instructions part of the package I am offering a printed (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) How about for people who didn't buy a hopper but want a set of instructions to build one? Russell (24 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Well, that's what this subthread is about, after all. :-) 5 is too low IMHO and I told you it was to a close friend that I sold a set for 10 so you could derive that 10 is too low too to the general public. The question posed several posts (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I would pay $10-$12 for a good set of instructions. Russell Clark (URL) 39423705 (24 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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That's probably what I'd pay too, as a max. (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer (24 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Me too! Larry, I don't care if they are printed on ordinary paper or just electronic copies that I have to print out myself. I'd pay $8 for the information and license to use or $10 if they are printed out on ordinary paper. Am I right in (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Mulling this over I think 12, domestic first class postage included, printed on heavier stock paper (not fancy imitation lambskin but not the thin inexpensive stock I normally print on), if I can print it 2 up (2 pages per sheet of paper to (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.market.theory)
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