Wanna REAL train to play with??

[Anonymous]

http://www.govdeals.com/eas/itmDisplay.cfm?itemID=70&acctID=685

Check out this site......

 

dan

 

[CandCRR]

I got the following message when going to that web site:

This item is no longer available.
It has either sold or has been withdrawn.

Is there another URL we could go to or is really gone?

Jaime

[Anonymous]

The government was selling off some old locomotives and rolling stock. The highest bidder yesterday was set at $28,000 for all of it.

 

Heck the metal alone is worth that, the only problem, once purchased it had to be moved within 30 days.......

 

How can you move a real train in less than 30 days?

 

dan

 

[FJ and G]

Moving big stuff is ALWAYS the problem. Not trains, but at Fort Belvoir Va. recently, there were these 1940s or 50s one-of-a-kind metal constructed houses that were going cheap; forgot the price, but REALLY cheap. In fact they may have been giving them away.

Trouble is, there was a clause they had to be moved. Moving alone would have cost more than a new house. So the houses are still sitting there and will likely need to be demolished in place.

[CandCRR]

Moving big things can be challenging. A bunch of years ago they had the bright idea of making a museum out of the Albacore Submarine.  It had to be moved. All went well till:  "On May 4, 1985 . Albacore moved reluctantly into her cradle in the new museum just outside the city. The ship had to be moved sideways as well and the tail got stuck in the mud at a critical juncture, but by blowing the ballast tanks the sub reached its destination for the winching to begin with only minutes to spare in the Pisctaqua high tides. But the marine railway system failed and the sub sat in the mud just below its cradle like a beached whale for six ignominious months." from NH Seacoast.com http://seacoastnh.com/Maritime_History/The_Shipyard/Hauling_Out_the_USS_Albacore/

It is a nice little museum, I've been there a couple times.

 

Also here is a precedence for having a Sub near your railroad.

Jaime

 

[Ray Dunakin]

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Heck, that's easy! Just use a full-scale "0-5-0". ;)

[Puckdropper]

You mean like some of the Star Trek Original Series episodes?  A big (big!) green hand has the Enterprise in its grip, a red shirt is sure to die... I want to watch more...

[markperr]

About a year ago I was at a family birthday party and a close friend of my in-laws who owns a scrap business told me tales of all the steam locomotives that his scrap yard dismantled during the sixties and seventies.  He said he made tons of money on the steel, iron, brass, and copper.  He said that during a few peak years in the early seventies, that Grand Trunk actually had a spur running into the back of his scrap yard, because there was so much that was being shipped there on a weekly basis.

This whole conversation happened because he remembered that I had a garden railroad.

It's amazing how much you can learn from  an 85 year old man.  Senior citizens: Our greatest historical treasures.

Mark