Re: Off-topic (Re: Sig?)

Ground Zero Games wrote:

> >	Maerkin IIRC is a German model train manufacture, so the wagon
is
> >a train car.  Also I think that the "little croncodile" is a specific
> >type of train engine.  Look at the sig again and you can see an
Electric
> >engine pulling a pair of train cars.
> >
> >Enjoy,
> >Tom Granvold 		  <thomas.granvold@eng.sun.com>
> 
> Maerklin is one of the oldest surviving German model railway
manufacturers,
> and Alan's Sig refers to their Z gauge range, which at 1:220 scale is
the
> smallest model gauge on general sale. The "Crocodile" (or Krokodil) is
the
> name used for the peculiar German/Swiss electric loco classes with
long
> articulated engine "bonnets" at both ends - giving them rather the
look of
> a double-ended "conventional" truck tractor.

A picture is at http://www.z-world.com/bin/master.cgi?entry=8852
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