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RE: Non-Lego trains, anyone?
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.trains, lugnet.build
Date: 
Mon, 20 Mar 2000 21:07:09 GMT
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Then I pulled out some old HO track and had a brain wave....which
is often more dangerous than it sounds.

The track looks not too badly out of scale with a 4 stud
vehicle. What if someone was to take a standard HO locomotive
and dismember it, then reattach the guts to a Lego plate
or some such item. Wouldn't it be cool to have a "real" train
that everyone could afford space for, and still have Lego for
the rolling stock and buildings?

It could work, but then Gary Istok would have competition for classic
windows and doors since the 1x2x3 classic door is what is in scale with
HO.

Well, I have my own badly scratched up Classic doors. I even have some
slides of me 30 years ago with a Marklin HO train set (still have it)
and some neat LEGO buildings I made. I even had some of the old HO
scale LEGO trucks - if only I hadn't given them to my 3 year old
twins before coming out of the dark ages....

Anyways, I might grab a junky HO scale locomotive for parts at a local
discount store and see what happens...

Cheers,

Ralph Hempel - P.Eng

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  Re: Non-Lego trains, anyone?
 
(...) It could work, but then Gary Istok would have competition for classic windows and doors since the 1x2x3 classic door is what is in scale with HO. (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)

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