Vintage set of the week: Steam Locomotive
Posted by Huwbot,
This week's vintage set is 721 Steam Locomotive, released during 1969. It's one of 25 Trains sets produced that year. It contains 126 pieces.
It's owned by 122 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
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Yet more false advertising. An electric powered steam locomotive? Oxymoron much!?
@MCLegoboy said:
"Yet more false advertising. An electric powered steam locomotive? Oxymoron much!?"
Probably safer for kids than a steam powered electric locomotive, though.
Steam locomotive? Looks like a 12v engine to me ;)
@MCLegoboy said:
"Yet more false advertising. An electric powered steam locomotive? Oxymoron much!?"
Maybe it's both- uses electricity to heat the water to steam.
Are you sure that’s a steam locomotive?
@560heliport said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"Yet more false advertising. An electric powered steam locomotive? Oxymoron much!?"
Maybe it's both- uses electricity to heat the water to steam."
Indeed! The Swiss had two of those during the Second World War:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric-steam_locomotive
@MCLegoboy said:
"Yet more false advertising. An electric powered steam locomotive? Oxymoron much!?"
How about "an electric powered, steam-style locomotive"?
I remember those rubber tires... like 'a lost relic of a bygone age.'
When I was a kid in mid 2000s, I had a friend who I played Lego with. He had a box of old Lego pieces and amongst them there was a magnet piece which I thought was really cool and wished Lego would still make those.
I made an 00-scale one of these too:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/EZMRmZ9ZUft66S6KA
Well, at least the Orient Express locomotive wasn't the first Lego steam locomotive with rather small wheels....
As for electric steam locomotives: https://youtu.be/glsgzBnoBNk?si=1_T4g-ystyGTKEM0&t=455
One of my dreams as a child!
@Arnoldos said:
"When I was a kid in mid 2000s, I had a friend who I played Lego with. He had a box of old Lego pieces and amongst them there was a magnet piece which I thought was really cool and wished Lego would still make those."
Did it look like the magnet on this set? If it looked a little di, it might have been from M-Tron or Rock Raiders. Rock Raiders wouldn't have counted as "older Lego" then, as the line ran from 1999-2000, but M-Tron was 1990-1991.
@MCLegoboy:
@TheOtherMike:
Both are possible. You use electricity to generate steam when you put a kettle on an electric stove. And nuclear power plants use steam turbines to generate electricity.
Push it! Pull it down!
Livin' la vida loco!
@TheOtherMike said:
" @Arnoldos said:
"When I was a kid in mid 2000s, I had a friend who I played Lego with. He had a box of old Lego pieces and amongst them there was a magnet piece which I thought was really cool and wished Lego would still make those."
Did it look like the magnet on this set? If it looked a little di, it might have been from M-Tron or Rock Raiders. Rock Raiders wouldn't have counted as "older Lego" then, as the line ran from 1999-2000, but M-Tron was 1990-1991."
It must have been from M-Tron, because there were some other M-Tron parts in the bin.
That was actually a nice set for 1969.
Back when shaping was dependent on slopes and round bricks.
@MeisterDad said:
"Back when shaping was dependent on slopes and round bricks."
Of course, nowadays it's sometimes dependent on round slopes.