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Re: AUSTRIAN RAIL CAR
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Tue, 9 Feb 1999 13:44:42 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek (lar@voyager.net) wrote:

Lego has never done a model of a rail car, or a street car to my
knowledge, but has done lots of power cars (at least two of the 77xx
series passenger train primary models include power cars)

I know we can say many ugly things about 4559, but isn't it
a rail car?

Non-LEGO examples of rail cars are (if I understand the
terminology correctly):

- ER-IR4
   <URL:http://mercurio.iet.unipi.it/pix/dk/electric/ER-IR4/pix.html>
- "S-trains"
   <URL:http://mercurio.iet.unipi.it/pix/dk/electric/S-tog/pix.html>
- IC3
   <URL:http://mercurio.iet.unipi.it/pix/dk/diesel/dmu/MF-IC3/pix.html>

ER-IR4 and the "S-trains" are actually electric. Is it only
diesel powered rail cars that are called rail cars?


Play well,

Jacob

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  Re: AUSTRIAN RAIL CAR
 
(...) I would tend to say not, as to me, the defining characteristic of a railcar (or a street car, for that matter) is that it has two trucks (rather than articulated the way the 4559 lead unit is) and that it contains the entire "stuff" of a (...) (26 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)

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  Re: AUSTRIAN RAIL CAR
 
(...) US practice as well. Other terms for such a beast are Doodlebug and RDC. (Rail Diesel Car), both of which originally referred to the products of a specific firm. The notion is that one of these units can take the place of a whole train, (...) (26 years ago, 7-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)

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