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Re: Favorite Lego Train?
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Mon, 7 Feb 2000 03:06:00 GMT
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lpieniazek@NOMORESPAMnovera.com
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Frank Filz wrote:
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> Sam Pusch wrote in message ...
> > Please let me know what is your favorite set and why? (Sounds like a high
> > school assignment, sorry.)
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> 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 includes a locomotive
> and cars would be 4565. The locomotive is decent (though of somewhat unusual
> design)
It kind of reminds me of a GE Center Cab (or "44 tonner" (1) ) shortline
engine.
http://paintshop.railfan.net/images/belanger/ge44t2a.html
http://espee.railfan.net/spge44t.html
http://espee.railfan.net/jpgs/bob_dengler/bd_sp1902.jpg
http://www.scrm.org/rosters/locos/33.html (corroborates my footnote,
below, which shows that I don't just make this stuff up, you know...)
> Larry's Hopper: this would be my favorite freight car
Really? Are you sure you weren't hopped up when you said that? I'm
"flat"tered! Thanks! I actually like my bulkhead "flat" (ouch)...
http://www.lugnet.com/cad/dat/models/?n=731
a little better. But the parts for that are harder to come by.
1 - They were called 44 tonners, because that's what they weighed. Why
did they weigh 44 tons? Seems the BLE(2) which also covered firemen,
early in the age of the diesel, negotiated a labor agreement that all
diesels of 45 tons or more would have to have firemen. So, GE jumped out
with an engine that just barely didn't need one based on weight, and
industrial lines and shortlines bought them by the bushel.
2 - Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. A diesel needs a fireman the
same way a fish needs a bicycle. In my opinion, anyway.
--
Larry Pieniazek - larryp@novera.com - http://my.voyager.net/lar
http://www.mercator.com. Mercator, the e-business transformation company
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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 (25 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 (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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