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Jason J Railton wrote:
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> Still, let's have a decent British steam locomotive next, eh?
Heck yeah, a whole line of them (read: Thomas)
-John
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> Jason J Railton
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In lugnet.trains, John Neal writes:
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> Jason J Railton wrote:
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> > Still, let's have a decent British steam locomotive next, eh?
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> Heck yeah, a whole line of them (read: Thomas)
He said "Decent" not "Cute"... every club should have a Thomas(tm) but that
doesn't mean I want LEGO(r) to dump effort into licensing it.
Na, give us an A4 Mallard(1) (think of the compound curved pieces for that
one!!!)
1 - check me on that, I think that's what it is. Big, Blue, Streamlined,
Fast, Between the Wars period...
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In lugnet.trains, Kevin Wilson writes:
> Larry Pieniazek wrote in message ...
> > Na, give us an A4 Mallard(1) (think of the compound curved pieces for that
> > one!!!)
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> > 1 - check me on that, I think that's what it is. Big, Blue, Streamlined,
> > Fast, Between the Wars period...
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> Yep, you got it. Class is A4, a Pacific (4-6-2) wheel arrangement, Mallard
> was the engine which took the world steam speed record of 126 mph in in 1938
> IIRC. Designed by Sir Nigel Gresley for the LNER.
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> Here she is:
> http://www.freefoto.com/pictures/transport_rail_steam/mainline/index.asp?i=4
> (running)
> http://www.freefoto.com/pictures/transport_rail_steam/nrm/index.asp?i=53
> (Now in rail museum)
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> And more info
> http://www.o-keating.com/hsr/mallard.htm
> http://www.wandleys.demon.co.uk/mallard.htm
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> Kevin
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Thanks for confirming my memory. Now for the real test: Someone built a
LEGO(r) model of it some time back? For 50 points, who can give the URL(s)
to the builder's pics???
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > > Na, give us an A4 Mallard(1) (think of the compound curved pieces for that
> > > one!!!)
> > > ...
> In lugnet.trains, Kevin Wilson writes:
> > Yep, you got it. Class is A4, a Pacific (4-6-2) wheel arrangement, Mallard
> > was the engine which took the world steam speed record of 126 mph in in 1938
> > IIRC. Designed by Sir Nigel Gresley for the LNER.
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> > Here she is:
> > http://www.freefoto.com/pictures/transport_rail_steam/mainline/index.asp?i=4
> > (running)
> > http://www.freefoto.com/pictures/transport_rail_steam/nrm/index.asp?i=53
> > (Now in rail museum)
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> > And more info
> > http://www.o-keating.com/hsr/mallard.htm
> > http://www.wandleys.demon.co.uk/mallard.htm
In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> Thanks for confirming my memory. Now for the real test: Someone built a
> LEGO(r) model of it some time back? For 50 points, who can give the URL(s)
> to the builder's pics???
[Slowly raises hand] It was a long time ago, okay? Over a year and a half.
I didn't have any track or 9V wheels either:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j.j.railton/mallard/index.html
And Larry knows this because he was there. Look on the link to Huw's
photos. All the effort went into the walking AT-AT at the time (see my
Space section).
But yes, I'd love to see Lego Direct do a nice big version of this. They
could leave the fairings off if they wanted to - many of these ran from
day-to-day without them. But, big train wheels, lots of curves. It would
be great.
Jason J Railton
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