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Subject:	Re: 20 (yes TWENTY) new trains at LEGO.com/Shop - Themes \| Trains
Newsgroups:	lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct
Date:	Mon, 23 Apr 2001 18:03:25 GMT
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What's all the fuss about? They don't look great to me. They look like those kiddy rides you find in theme parks to me. A steam train should have cilinders, pushrods etcetera. These are on bogey's from a Diesel. Also, they lack detail; half the piping is on stickers.... The engine in 7730 looks more like a steam engine to me, and that's 20 years ago! Maybe it's childhood memories, maybe it's because I'm just after buying the old Thatcher Perkins, but it looks like trains have only gone downhill since the early eighties.... Duq, the grumpy one...

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		Re: 20 (yes TWENTY) new trains at LEGO.com/Shop - Themes \| Trains
(...) I'm sorry you feel that way. To me, anything new in the train line is worth a fuss. JMHO Katie (23 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)

		Re: 20 (yes TWENTY) new trains at LEGO.com/Shop - Themes \| Trains
(...) But the Thatcher Perkins is, like, more than twice as large as today's trains. And it still doesn't implement the correct kind of pushrod/cylinder movement. If a LEGO set was perfect to the degree that there wasn't any room to improve it, (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)

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		Re: 20 (yes TWENTY) new trains at LEGO.com/Shop - Themes \| Trains
Now that the pictures can be seen, one can notice a difference between the small engine with tender and the small engine without tender. If you notice, the small engine without tender does NOT have the numer 317 on the side. Instead of the 317 (...) (23 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)

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