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During the second half of the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries, the 4-6-0 was constructed in large numbers for passenger and mixed traffic service. A natural extension of the 4-4-0 American wheel arrangement, the four-wheel leading bogie gave good stability at speed and allowed a longer boiler to be supported, while the lack of trailing wheels gave a high adhesive weight.
Lego Star Wars (stylized as LEGO Star Wars) is a Lego theme based on the Star Wars media franchise created by George Lucas.It includes over 928 Lego building toy sets, [1] 1389 Lego minifigures, [2] an eponymous video game series containing six games, and multiple animated short films and television series.
Lego Education, formerly known as Lego Dacta, is a specialized Lego theme created for educational purposes in schools. This theme, introduced in 1999, includes a variety of sets that cater to different educational needs. [2] These sets often focus on Duplo and Technic themes and typically contain a larger quantity of blocks.
Lego Modular Buildings (stylized as LEGO Modular Buildings) is a series of Lego building toy sets introduced in 2007, with new sets usually being released annually. Created in response to feedback and suggestions from the Adult Fans of Lego bricks (AFOL) and Teen Fans of Lego (TFOL) communities, the sets in this series are generally intended for more advanced builders.
Lego Games launched in 2009, was a series of Lego-themed board games designed by Cephas Howard and Reiner Knizia [116] [117] in which the players usually build the playing board out of Lego bricks and then play with Lego-style players. Examples of the games include "Minotaurus", in which players roll dice to move characters within a brick-build ...
[4] [5] Since 1963, Lego bricks have been made of the plastic acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene copolymer (ABS). [6] Transparent building elements are made of polycarbonate ("Makrolon") [7] and axles because of its higher rotational stiffness made of polyamide (PA). ABS has a low specific gravity with a density of 1.03 to 1.07 g-cm −3.
The Lego Foundation (25%) Number of employees. 24,484 [3] (March 2021) Website. lego.com. The Lego Group (formally Lego A/S) [5] is a Danish construction toy production company based in Billund, Denmark. [6] It manufactures Lego -branded toys, consisting mostly of interlocking plastic bricks.
L&YR: 1506-1525 (excl 1507/8, 1512/3, 1515), 1649–1683. LMS:10405–10474. Withdrawn. 1934–1951. Disposition. All scrapped. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) Class 8 was a four-cylinder 4-6-0 express passenger locomotive designed by George Hughes introduced in 1908.