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Re: AUSTRIAN RAIL CAR
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 9 Feb 1999 17:52:47 GMT
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Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
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> Larry Pieniazek (lar@voyager.net) wrote:
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> > Lego has never done a model of a rail car, or a street car to my
> > knowledge, but has done lots of power cars (at least two of the 77xx
> > series passenger train primary models include power cars)
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> I know we can say many ugly things about 4559, but isn't it
> a rail car?
I would tend to say not, as to me, the defining characteristic of a
railcar (or a street car, for that matter) is that it has two trucks
(rather than articulated the way the 4559 lead unit is) and that it
contains the entire "stuff" of a passenger train in one package.
> Non-LEGO examples of rail cars are (if I understand the
> terminology correctly):
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> - ER-IR4
> <URL:http://mercurio.iet.unipi.it/pix/dk/electric/ER-IR4/pix.html>
Hmm.. these have tested in the US, I think. That huge rubber front is
very distinctive, and would be fun to model. All the pictures show at
least two units, though. In the last picture, is the center (not the red
end) articulated? it's hard to tell) If one unit can't operate by itself
I would tend to say "not a rail car" in the US sense.
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| (...) The listed units can all operate on their own. It was the IC3 (three box diesel version of the IR4) that were tested in the US. There are pictures from the test runs at <URL:(URL). Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) I know we can say many ugly things about 4559, but isn't it a rail car? Non-LEGO examples of rail cars are (if I understand the terminology correctly): - ER-IR4 <URL:(URL) - "S-trains" <URL:(URL) - IC3 <URL:(URL) ER-IR4 and the "S-trains" are (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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