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Re: Max's Motorhome
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Thu, 17 Feb 2000 03:39:08 GMT
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In the interest of brevity, this message has been subjected to various snippage
In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> Tom McDonald wrote:
> > Wow! Hey that does look like it was fun! I almost like the idea of a *real*
> > private railcar. (Wouldn't that cause headaches IRL :)
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> Not really. There are well over 100 privately owned railcars extant in
> the US.
Sweet...
> Pass a certain set of standards and you can have your private car tacked
> on the end of Amtrak trains for so much a mile. So it's fairly common
> procedure. There are lesser numbers of privately owned locomotoves...
> most of those are owned by preservation societies rather than
> individuals.
Yeah, that's actually what I meant by the above.. using the same tracks to
pull whole private trains and public.. scheduling conflicts causing
headaches.. that's all. (I really should learn to type more accurately what's
in my head instead of counting on readers to mind meld with my messages.)
> I've seen varnish advertised for as little as 20K and as much as 2M.
> There's usually one or two for sale in the back pages of TRAINS
> magazine.
> Wanna buy one?
Heh... that would be the bomb... a rolling Lego train layout in a real
traveling railcar! (right next to the dining car, y'kno :)
> they would have if you gave it, oh, say, 1/2 hour or so...
lol.. nah.. my browser gave them each an X fairly quickly.
> 1 - varnish is old railroad slang for fancyschmantzy cars.
Please try not to use overly technical terms in this 'family forum' ;-)
> Note: this is a family forum!
Yay! The notice is back! :) I copied the idea.
-Tom McD.
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| (...) I can see it now, one of the train clubs touring the country with a layout inside a railcar tacked onto the back of the same trains that they are trying to model. :) -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Not really. There are well over 100 privately owned railcars extant in the US. There is a club of "private varnish"(1) owners and there usually are a number of them that show up at national NMRA conventions, and they have their own club with (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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