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Re: Slightly OT - Microsoft Train Simulator
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lugnet.trains
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 :-) (26 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. (26 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)

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