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Re: 20 (yes TWENTY) new trains at LEGO.com/Shop - Themes | Trains
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Tue, 24 Apr 2001 01:01:22 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> In lugnet.trains, Jason J. Railton writes:
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> > And, sorry Larry, but I reckon they look early American. The desert
> > background suggests that TLC think so too.
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> Feel free to provide a cite.
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> The two truck (larger) one looks a bit like a Shay (in which case the
> background ought to be a forest, with logging going on) but other than that, no.
Well, Shays, Heislers, and Climaxes have been used for mining also.
Certainly the bulk of Shays served in the woods, but I think at least
some served in the South West.
I must admit that "geared loco" jumped into my mind quickly when I saw
the two truck loco. But it still looks too European, and definitely
really doesn't look like a Shay or a Climax, it might almost pass as a
Heisler. One of these days I need to make my attempt at a Shay. I know
I've seen one or two, it will be interesting to see what I come up with.
Of course at some point I also need to get back to the project which
drove me initially to get 6 8250/8299s, which is a pneumatic Shay drive,
with sequencing cheated by having a motor drive a hidden set of 3
cylinders (if someone has a brilliant idea for how to sequence a 3
cylinder drive using pneumatics without a hidden motor driving 3 hidden
cylinders, I'd love to hear it).
--
Frank Filz
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