Mmm trains, delicious

of course we had the artic train earlier this year, but thats not enough
really need a train theme again- or at least a subtheme for city

thatd still be grand

We’re staying with 12V trains. Perfect!

Only one more week until 215 disappears from the sidebar forever!

Vaccine wagon vibes.

@Wallace_Brick_Designs said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
"Only one more week until 215 disappears from the sidebar forever!"

It will never be forgotten in the hearts of Bricksetters! Yielding only to My Dad, it stands alone with all sets, one that will never die. Having many more comments than all others before or since (yielding only to My Dad), it will be remembered for many fortnights to come. Its canoe shall roe forever and ever still, with our poor Indians trapped forever; no bisection allowed! Push onward my men, push onward!"

Huh. Forgot all about that one. Hey, it's been two months!

Looks more like an atom than a snowflake symbol. Though unfortunately for whoever had this idea of putting such materials in a refrigerated wagon, radioactive half-life is not affected by freezing.

It could also be a jack, though I think those strange metal toys were already out of vogue by '76.

I played hours with that spring loader shooting parts... Now is the spring loading shooter

Id love a proper minifigure scaled version of this with updated pieces.

Coolest Lego train car ever!

I’m looking at the slab figure in this set and the RMotD and asking myself which is more LEGO-like. I’m tempted to say the slabby.

@Brickchap said:
"Id love a proper minifigure scaled version of this with updated pieces."

7730 included an updated version of this wagon, scaled to its minifigures.

That's a pretty unique look. I don't know enough about trains and/or dairy, I guess, but is that raised tower-structure common to refrigerator-wagons?

To the untrained eye, it makes this thing look like a SW-vehicle. Which, I guess, also serves as proof that I don't know all that much about SW either.

@Crux said:
"That's a pretty unique look. I don't know enough about trains and/or dairy, I guess, but is that raised tower-structure common to refrigerator-wagons?"

Looks like a brakeman's cabin (remmershuisje) to me. Back in the old days the brakes of the wagons weren't yet coupled to those of the locomotive. And you can imagine, with longer, heavier trains you'll need some more stopping power. So every few cars would have a little cabin like this, with someone in it who would manually operate the brakes of the wagon when signaled from the locomotive.

By the time this set was released those were long obsolete, but it just looks a bit more interesting. On model trains you often also see way too many of these....

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremserplatz

@Norikins said:
"Looks more like an atom than a snowflake symbol. Though unfortunately for whoever had this idea of putting such materials in a refrigerated wagon, radioactive half-life is not affected by freezing.

It could also be a jack, though I think those strange metal toys were already out of vogue by '76."

Doesn't look like an atomic symbol to me, those are shaped completely differently. And as for jacks, my brother and I had some as a kid, but we never knew how to play them; we just used them as little tops.

@myth said:
"We’re staying with 12V trains. Perfect!"

It's actually from the 4.5V-era as the 12V trains didn't come out until 1980.

@TheOtherMike said:
" @Norikins said:
"Looks more like an atom than a snowflake symbol. Though unfortunately for whoever had this idea of putting such materials in a refrigerated wagon, radioactive half-life is not affected by freezing.

It could also be a jack, though I think those strange metal toys were already out of vogue by '76."

Doesn't look like an atomic symbol to me, those are shaped completely differently. And as for jacks, my brother and I had some as a kid, but we never knew how to play them; we just used them as little tops."

Not the radiation symbol. The atom symbol. You know, typically depicted as three electrons orbiting a nucleus in a design that looks like a hollow asterisk:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/388928117793249068/

The fact that this symbol is done in outline only does result in a very superficial resemblance. It certainly doesn't look much like a snowflake, given the circular knobs on the ends of the six arms. Most snowflake symbols I've seen go beyond even just putting hexagons at the ends of those arms, and instead put a five-pointed branching design there, with the sixth position taken up by the central arm.

@PurpleDave said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
" @Norikins said:
"Looks more like an atom than a snowflake symbol. Though unfortunately for whoever had this idea of putting such materials in a refrigerated wagon, radioactive half-life is not affected by freezing.

It could also be a jack, though I think those strange metal toys were already out of vogue by '76."

Doesn't look like an atomic symbol to me, those are shaped completely differently. And as for jacks, my brother and I had some as a kid, but we never knew how to play them; we just used them as little tops."

Not the radiation symbol. The atom symbol. You know, typically depicted as three electrons orbiting a nucleus in a design that looks like a hollow asterisk:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/388928117793249068/

The fact that this symbol is done in outline only does result in a very superficial resemblance. It certainly doesn't look much like a snowflake, given the circular knobs on the ends of the six arms. Most snowflake symbols I've seen go beyond even just putting hexagons at the ends of those arms, and instead put a five-pointed branching design there, with the sixth position taken up by the central arm."

I know he meant the atom symbol, but I just don't see any real resemblance, due to the circular knobs you mention. Although I do agree that it's not a very good description of a snowflake.

You guys are all a bunch of snowflakes! ;-)

@Murdoch17 said:
" @myth said:
"We’re staying with 12V trains. Perfect!"

It's actually from the 4.5V-era as the 12V trains didn't come out until 1980."

More like mixed era, considering the first 12V transformer 740-2 came in 1969, together with 12V conductive rails in blue, and 720-2 train set :-)

@Murdoch17 said:
" @myth said:
"We’re staying with 12V trains. Perfect!"

It's actually from the 4.5V-era as the 12V trains didn't come out until 1980."

Lego started making 12V trains in 1969 with the 720-2 set. This was the "blue" track era which ended in 1980 with the new "grey" track era. But yes, this set is classified as a 4.5V set.