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Roy

To me, the most realistic 3-rail steam is a 225E. I think it's too bad Lionel didn't make an O27 version of the 225, with the 1666 mechanism. The 224 and 225 drivers look too large, for my taste. The same drivers look OK, on the 226. My favorite from the time is the 1947 model 1666. The main reason...

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Vaccine development. About eight minutes.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/what-we-know-about-the-search-for-a-covid-19-vaccine-and-what-we-dont

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healey36 wrote:I have both an O-gauge 204 and an O-27 1684...always liked the proportions for these...

Yes, Lionel did a fine job, on this design. It's quite realistic. It suggests a selectively-compressed Mikado type. And, it looks great, with Lionel's 3/16-ish rolling stock.

Roy

MurphOnMillerAve wrote:...and still no reply from him, nor from anybody who knows...

I've googled his name twice, since you first asked. Nothing came up. Someone should call him, or contact the local authorities. He may be incapacitated.

Roy

This isn't necessarily about partisanship per se. The reporters from thirty to forty years ago were just plain better. They checked their facts and they actually were better at not letting the people they were interviewing off the hook. Now the people being interviewed are better prepared at dodgin...

Roy

The Lionel O gauge 204. Along with the O27 1684, this was the first version of the boiler casting that Lionelers call the Columbia. http://www.dakotapaul.com/pics1/P6240003.jpg Any steamer with a 2-4-2 wheel arrangement is a Columbia type, properly speaking. And Lionel made several 2-4-2 engines wit...

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Rufus T. Firefly wrote:We are not and cannot be entirely self-sufficient on all strategic goods.

Yeah, I know. We bought the titanium for our SR-71 spy plane, from the Soviets.

The Chinese have a lock on rare earth metals. What else, can't we provide ourselves?

Roy

robert. wrote:Most of the products they make. We don’t need

healey36 wrote:Much of our clothing, footwear, small appliances, phones, cookware, hand-tools, not to mention many of the components that go into our cars, large appliances, computers and computer peripherals, telecom equipment, etc...yeah a ton of our stuff comes from China. I'd advocate a six-month moratorium on buying stuff manufactured in China, but it'd be tough to go cold turkey for an extended period of time (especially in a country with an attention span measured in nano-seconds).

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:Japan tried something along those lines and lasted about 2 weeks.

Japan has few natural resources. They don't even have enough land to feed themselves. We do have those things. We should be as independent of China as possible, when it comes to strategic goods.

Roy

chuck wrote:...on the Trainz photo's below it looks like the you can see through the boiler when looking into the cab? Something's either not right with the pictures or the locomotive itself.

There's no boiler backhead in the 675. Do you have any postwar Lionel, Chuck?

Roy

healey36 wrote:Sarge flipped me a note. Sounds like the 2034 and an ad hoc set will be heading off to a local disabled kid...couldn't think of a better home for it.

Do kids today actually like these things, or do they just sell them to the local pawn shop?

Roy

Here's the O gauge version of the O27 1664. It's the 229:

Roy

Dr. Fauci on controlling the coronavirus. About twenty minutes.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-fauci-says-the-u-s-can-get-control-of-the-pandemic

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v8vega wrote:I have a prewar 1664 2-4-2 it has a metal motor, wire handrails, enclosed trailing truck and full valve gear. It must be one of the best 2-4-2's.

Those used the same boiler shells as the 224 and 1666. It should also have the swinging bell.

Roy

rogruth wrote:What is the lever on the bottom sticking out to the side for?

When the lever is activated by a trackside trip, the door opens, and a cow moves out. But I don't see the cow, in this car.

Roy

It was all about getting the cost down and preserve the margin, pure and simple. By 1960 it was a life-or-death struggle for the company. Yes, but the Scout motor was introduced in 1948. Cheap is one thing, but shit is something else. And, by calling it Lionel Scout, they were still associating the...

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