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Re: Help to identify a train set !!
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 28 Feb 2000 05:53:07 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Steven Draves writes:
> I picked up 100LBS of Lego this weekend and have sorted through it. I
> found an early train set, black engine, separate black battery box, 18
> long curved track, 16 short curved track, and 8 straight track. Also
> eighteen wheel for the track, and five couplers with blue and red
> covered magnets on each couplers set. Many instructions were included,
> but none for this train. Any ideas on which train this is, or what else
> I should be looking for? I downloaded 116 and will look at it further,
> but was not able to find a download for 127.
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> Any help would be appreciated.
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> Steven Draves
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> srdraves@onlink.net
The best way to cut down the possibilities is to isolate what it isn't. It
isn't 9 Volt, since the track is multi-piece. There was no mention of
conductor rails, so that rules out 12V. For the 4.5 Volt, there are 107
entries in Pause. Many are easy to rule out.
These are good possibilities:
http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=180-1
http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=181-1
http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=182-1
Seeing those old train sets really does look weird. They are the same "scale"
as the current trains, albeit a bit shorter in length, but they look like they
are built to a smaller scale. Trains came out in 1966, when town doors were
1x2x3. Now that town doors are 1x4x5, the train size still hasn't changed. I
particularly like the 180 and 182, but to put a minifig next to them would
only work if the minifig was Andre The Giant.
Congratulations on a rare find, assuming you got one of the three trains above.
Mike
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| (...) Also the red and blue couplers were only used in the blue era. (...) 182 have their couples attached to the cars baseplate. In fact the wheelsets are fixed to the plate. If the wheels and couplers are attached, Mike is probably right. So if in (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| I picked up 100LBS of Lego this weekend and have sorted through it. I found an early train set, black engine, separate black battery box, 18 long curved track, 16 short curved track, and 8 straight track. Also eighteen wheel for the track, and five (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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