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This would be a great new gizmo for Lionel to produce. Make it like a tricycle. The single wheel would need a flange on both sides, but the rear wheels could be standard issue with flanges on the inside of the wheel only. Think about the possibilities. Put a gargantuan motor on the thing, give it a short wheelbase, and endow it with magne-traction. The mechanism would need a flint running against some type of rotating stone so sparks would come out the stack and maybe even from underneath. What a show in a dark room. And they could make a passenger car to go behind this contraption. It could have two wheels nearest the 0-1-2 and a single wheel on the rear. Talk about genuine late 50's Lionel. Maybe even stick a rotating clown on the top of the whole mess. Yes, oh balls, yes. And put a vibrating floor in the car so it can work like the automatic cattle car did, only this one will have miniature people going in and out of it. Joshua, why didn't you build this one? It would be a classic just like the rocket flatcar, the automatic milk car, the searchlite car, the aquarium car, ad nauseum. Tom
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