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Re: Slightly OT - Microsoft Train Simulator
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Thu, 27 Jul 2000 15:44:41 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, John Neal writes:
> Looks like you have a choice of 9 trains. Here's a blurb from one:
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> · The Flying Scotsman Railways. Enthusiasts chug
> along some of England's most beautiful countryside in the late 1920s in
> what is arguably the world's most famous steam
> locomotive.
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> "World's most famous steam loco"?!!! Krike! And I thought the Universe
> stopped revolving around England about 200 years ago. Give me a break!
J2 is right again. While the train itself may be famous (but arguably, the
Orient Express is more famous) the locomotive is no great shakes, and there
were more than one of them, with nothing to make one particular instance stand
out (it says "locomotive" not "locomotive class").
Were I picking out the world's most famous individual locomotive, a number of
candidates spring to mind that have nothing to do with the Flying Scotsman...
Stephenson's Rocket (Stockton and Darlington Time Trials winner)
Der Adler (first german loco)
The DeWitt Clinton (first loco in NY although not the first US)
Tom Thumb (winner of B&O loco design competition)
The General (famous civil war loco)
Jupiter (golden spike at the transcon completion)
NYC 999 (land speed record holder)
the IC loco that Casey Jones recklessly piloted to his death
UP 8444 (most famous US steamer still operating)
The thing about programmers is that they hate to write anything other than
code... so the marketers write the ad copy.
And the thing about marketers is... they're clueless.
Those are both stereotypes and not exactly true, but you get the idea.
++Lar
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| (...) <snip list of one UK, on German and 7 US steam locos> I doubt if any of us is qualified to even suggest what is the worlds most famous steam loco, if one goes by the number of people worldwide who have heard of it. Who knows which the millions (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Slightly OT - Microsoft Train Simulator
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| (...) Hehehe...4472 (The Flying Scotsman) _is_ a individual loco, as well as describing a class (A1 Gresley Pacific), and the train. I would say it is as well known _around the world_ if not better than any other engine. It is one of 2 locos I know (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Looks like you have a choice of 9 trains. Here's a blurb from one: · The Flying Scotsman Railways. Enthusiasts chug along some of England's most beautiful countryside in the late 1920s in what is arguably the world's most famous steam (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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