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Re: Slightly OT - Microsoft Train Simulator
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Date: 
Thu, 27 Jul 2000 19:01:46 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, James Powell writes:

                          · 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.

"World's most famous steam loco"?!!!  Krike!  And I thought the Universe
stopped revolving around England about 200 years ago.  Give me a break!


OK, give me a _name_ or _number_ of a equally famous US _engine_, without
looking it up.  Not Class/Train name, but _engine_ name.

I did... And MS didn't!!! The Flying Scotsman is a train (*!*), not an engine.



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  Re: Slightly OT - Microsoft Train Simulator
 
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Larry Pieniazek (<FyDE6y.IFo@lugnet.com>) wrote at 19:01:46 (...) I hate to be iconoclastic, but see James' other post. LNER 4472 'Flying Scotsman' (but it's a train as well :-) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)

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(...) OK, give me a _name_ or _number_ of a equally famous US _engine_, without looking it up. Not Class/Train name, but _engine_ name. (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)

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