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Re: 3225 Classic Train engine
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 23 May 2000 00:37:58 GMT
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Thanks for the info Jon. I never put the stickers on, so I don't have to
look at them!
> Hello Ryan.
>
> The 3225 Locomotive has generated a lot of derision on LUGNET but I • actually
> like it partly beause it is Lego's only recent attempt at a steam engine.
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> I think it is supposed to represent a typical European shunter • (US=Switcher)
> used to push freight cars around a yard or possibly head small trains.
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> As it is a tank engine (ie pulls no seperate tender for water and coal) it
> should have a bunker at the rear of the cab as well as some semblance of
> straight sided water tanks built into the area in front of it. The Lego • model
> only suggests at these items but generally carries off the overall effect
> quite well, given the constraints of size etc.
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> You may also have noticed that it does not ride too well on the track, • this is
> due to the short wheelbase and light weight which tends to lift the front
> under acceleration (this is quite entertaining and should be encouraged of
> course).
>
> The lever at the front is 'realistic', if not in proportion, as real locos
> have access hatches at the front of their smokeboxes which are opened
> with......a lever.
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> For European prototypes it is more usual to have 2 seperate lights • (sometimes
> more) on the buffer beam and sometimes one at the top of the smokebox • door,
> although there are variants. The pictures I have of US locomotives • generally
> have a large single headlight mounted on the smokebox door and maybe some
> smaller lights on the buffer beam.
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> Hope this helps
>
> Jon
>
> ps - I hate those stickers, don't you?
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| (...) Hello Ryan. The 3225 Locomotive has generated a lot of derision on LUGNET but I actually like it partly beause it is Lego's only recent attempt at a steam engine. I think it is supposed to represent a typical European shunter (US=Switcher) (...) (25 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.trains)
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