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Re: AUSTRIAN RAIL CAR
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lugnet.trains
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Sun, 7 Feb 1999 16:14:56 GMT
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lpien@[Spamcake]iwantnospam.ctp.com
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Kevin Wilson wrote:
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> John Neal wrote
> > "you keep using that word...."
> > > seriously thinking of buying the Rail Car
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> Railcar (all one word) is used in Brit practice to refer to an
> engine-and-carriage (passenger car) all in one combination.
US practice as well. Other terms for such a beast are Doodlebug and RDC.
(Rail Diesel Car), both of which originally referred to the products of
a specific firm. The notion is that one of these units can take the
place of a whole train, although trailers are sometimes added for extra
capacity.
Contrast with a "power car" which is part of a larger train, has power
AND accomodations, but does not connote completeness. The 4558
metroliner, for example, has two power cars, one at each end (although
one is a dummy, or unpowered, model of a powered prototype).
Contrast also with Street Car or Trolley, both of which fit the
definition, but are terms for electric rolling stock, and were not used
in freight railroad service much.
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)
The 4551 model is a model of a locomotive. There is no accomodation for
paying passengers or freight.
Kurt should be forgiven for not knowing the parlance originally, but I
do wish that now that he has had the correct terminology pointed out,
several times, that he would begin using it.
Please, Kurt, be precise. Better communication will result and some of
us will respect you more for it.
++Lar
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Dummies (was Re: AUSTRIAN RAIL CAR
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| No, not what you think!!! I forgot something that interested readers may find interesting. And uninteresting (1) readers should feel free to push N now. (...) Note that "dummy" in model parlance means exactly the opposite of what it means in real (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: AUSTRIAN RAIL CAR
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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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| | Re: AUSTRIAN RAIL CAR
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| John Neal wrote (...) Railcar (all one word) is used in Brit practice to refer to an engine-and-carriage (passenger car) all in one combination. Usually diesel. They were in use quite early - before WWII I think - on the GWR (not a GWR buff myself, (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains)
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