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Re: Caledonian OF-Class 0-4-0 for the hard of recognising...
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Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:21:32 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Jason J. Railton wrote:
   In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
   In lugnet.trains, Jason J. Railton wrote:
   As I said, if I’d meant the blasted thing to look like Thomas it would jolly well look like Thomas the flaming Tank Engine.

And it would have the right number of wheels.

The likes of Mr Reynolds can now amuse themselves with a quick game of spot the difference.

Thank you.

Small, blue, european, steam powered.

They both look like Thomas to me. :-) Now, what was the question?

Something about ILTCO recognising countries outside the United States, wasn’t it?

No, actually it was something about why NBLTC never signed up when the invites went out, if you must drag the topic in that direction... NBLTC certainly qualify under most all the metrics I checked.

But let’s not go there. Too serious. I’d rather talk about why you have such a Thomas fixation that you keep building variants on him.



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  Re: Caledonian OF-Class 0-4-0 for the hard of recognising...
 
(...) I don't know anything about that. I don't know how I ended up in the 'North British' anything - I live on the south coast. There's sea water at the end of my street. I meant your insistence on referring to pre-1960s British trains as (...) (21 years ago, 31-Jul-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
  Re: Caledonian OF-Class 0-4-0 for the hard of recognising...
 
(...) What's particularly galling is that the original blue engine has undergone about 10 seperate rebuilds for accuracy, shiny bits, glowing boiler etc. (notice the half-stud leaf springs on the side, too). The light blue one is my first, rushed (...) (21 years ago, 31-Jul-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)

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  Re: Caledonian OF-Class 0-4-0 for the hard of recognising...
 
(...) Something about ILTCO recognising countries outside the United States, wasn't it? Jason Railton (21 years ago, 30-Jul-03, to lugnet.trains, FTX)

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