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Steve -
LOL - I love it!
:^)
Ed
In lugnet.trains.org, Steven Barile writes:
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> If I ever have to run my LEGO trains at scale speeds according to pseudo
> time tables I will shoot my self and have my collection ground up and
> sprinkled over the nearest train yard!
> SteveB
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>
> In lugnet.trains.org, Aaron West writes:
> > In lugnet.trains.org, James J. Trobaugh writes:
> > > I was reading this months NMRA (Nation Model Railroad Assoc.) magazine
> > > and it featured garden railroads. What caught my attention was some
> > > comments from the editor. He mentioned that many in the NMRA didn't
> > > consider garden railroads "real" model railroads, they were viewed more
> > > as a novelty. But lately the garden railroad community has proven itself
> > > as a legitimate form of model railroading and that it can be just as
> > > detailed and elaborate as a HO layout.
> > >
> > > This got me thinking, so day maybe LEGO railroading will earn the same
> > > respect and be featured as well by the NMRA. I don't see this happening
> > > in the next year or so, but as the LTCs grow and refine the skill of
> > > LEGO railroading I do think it could happen in the future. I think as
> > > more prototyping of trains and rolling stocks come about, and layouts
> > > follow the paths of HO (and other scales) layouts, with real time tables
> > > and schedules, that some day LEGO and the LTCs will be seen as a nice
> > > alternative to the other scales. I know that LEGO can't really capture
> > > the detail of the model trains that other scales have, but that's what
> > > gives them that certain "flare" and "style" and makes them so much fun.
> > >
> > > Well that was just some thoughts I had and I figured I'd share them.
> > >
> > > jt
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------
> > > James J. Trobaugh
> > > North Georgia LEGO Train Club
> > > http://www.ngltc.org
> >
> > And besides, LEGOs are just toys! And you have to put them together • yourself!
> > When will they ever learn?
> > Aaron
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| If I ever have to run my LEGO trains at scale speeds according to pseudo time tables I will shoot my self and have my collection ground up and sprinkled over the nearest train yard! SteveB (...) (25 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains)
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