Too bad not more of these locos aren't put back in service, it's as bad as new cars, drive a few years---get a new one send the old clunker to the scrap yard. By the way, why don't people refer to this loco by the # C-39-8 ??? they use another description.
There is a business a few towns north of where I live that remakes out of production parts and rebuilds units for old EMD equipment. the owner told me most of the retired loco's like this oen are bought and shipped over seas and to South America big big money business.
I wonder how long it would take before the neighbors noticed it. Had a helicopter on a trailer in the drive way for two days when my neighbor was walking his dog and asked is that a helicopter? I said yup and he just went back to walking his dog.
Hum the family business still has property with an old siding on it I wonder ...... mabe we can make em a deal for that one and the RS3[quote user="tatans"]
I just realized that I could use something like what the original poster has posted. I live next to rail line that goes pretty close to where I go to school and work. I could purchase one of those locos and drive up and down the rails. Of course the RR wouldn't like it.
I could use one of those passenger cars and make it into a house. Think about it. Hook on a train and go. I would take the dome car. Plenty of seating for family and friends.
Will
~G4
19 Years old, modeling the Cowlitz, Chehalis, and Cascade Railroad of Western Washington in 1927 in 6X6 feet.
IVRWJamie, that 2nd car is actually mostly affordable at only 8,500. Hurry, make an offer!
That's another reason I like the fixer uppers, They're CHEAP!!!
I know it's ONLY $8500, but the shipping and handling is probably just as much. I wonder if it will fit in one of those new USPS flat rate boxes.
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I love this website. It's fun to dream isn't it?
On that note, I'd prefer one of these:
http://www.ozarkmountainrailcar.com/atsf_baggage_car_3430.htmhttp://www.ozarkmountainrailcar.com/cnbagrpo7822.htmhttp://www.ozarkmountainrailcar.com/up_dome_7009.htm
Why? Of course they all need work, but I see empty space. Empty space= Layout
Imagine having a layout in that dome car. Being a member of an operating crew and taking a brake in the crew lounge, the fully restored dome, before going back downstairs to run little trains...
What a wonderful dream
Jamie
..... Bob
Beam me up, Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here. (Captain Kirk)
I reject your reality and substitute my own. (Adam Savage)
Resistance is not futile--it is voltage divided by current.
Problem - how do you get it past SWMBO ? They have a habit of noticing these little things.
Dennis
Would I have to convert my layout to code 8700 rail?
Dave
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_ALEdDUB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqFS1GZL4s
http://s73.photobucket.com/user/steemtrayn/media/MovingcoalontheDCM.mp4.html?sort=3&o=27
Why not get a few passeneger cars, an F or an E-unit and put a model railroad in them?
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
GTW6401Hey if you have a spare hundred grand layin' around you can have yourself one of these beauties! Now if just gotta figure out how to get it into the basement....
I'm sure it's been done a number of times since, but I recall a MR article from either the late 1970s/early 1980s (can't look at the MR index right now) featuring a guy who purchased the nose/cab section of an F unit that was being scrapped, and installed it in his basement (chopped down to fit) - for some reason I'm remembering either KCS or MoPac passenger loco colors. I think he put the controls for his layout in the cab.
I wonder if UP would mind if I cut in a turnout and add the track needed to have it delivered and installed on my lawn. Then again, I wonder what then neighbors would think about me sounding the horn at 3 in the morning... heh heh.
Marlon
See pictures of the Clinton-Golden Valley RR
That's a neat website.
I agree, just get some "cold hard cash", and you can get your own line!!
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Are these 2-track or 3-track models? and if 3-track how easy might it be to convert them to 2-track 12 VDC? Are these DCC-equipped? or at least DCC-ready? Is there a ready-to-drop-in decoder available? And considering the price they must be one of them thar--that's Ozarkese--Limited Production models that they were talking about in a recent posting!
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nfmisso I'd rather have: http://www.ozarkmountainrailcar.com/alcomrs1-244.htm or http://www.ozarkmountainrailcar.com/alco_rs3u_977.htm or http://www.ozarkmountainrailcar.com/armyalcorsx4.htm
I'd rather have:
http://www.ozarkmountainrailcar.com/alcomrs1-244.htm or
http://www.ozarkmountainrailcar.com/alco_rs3u_977.htm or
http://www.ozarkmountainrailcar.com/armyalcorsx4.htm
I'm with Nigel, these are much more interesting and are within my era. I don't really even know what that other thing is, it's still 1954 here on the ATLANTIC CENTRAL.
Sheldon
I could use that to keep the neighbors from parking in my side yard. I was going to build a privacy fence, but this seems like a better idea.
That would be sooo much prettier then them silly pink flamingos on the front lawn
"If you need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm."
I bet if you walked in with 95 crisp Grover Clevelands they would prob say "DEAL!!"
fyi..Grovers are no longer in circulation
I wonder what the charge would be for USPS delivery?
Roy Onward into the fog http://s1014.photobucket.com/albums/af269/looseclu/
Hey if you have a spare hundred grand layin' around you can have yourself one of these beauties! Now if just gotta figure out how to get it into the basement....
http://www.ozarkmountainrailcar.com/c398_locomotives.htm
Don