They Came!

[Texas Zepher]

QUOTE: Originally posted by MisterBeasley

Great! Now remember, you owe her a nice dinner out to make up for that hospital food. Which one's the dining car on that Super Chief?

I know you are joking but FYI the dining car is always immediately behind the dome. It is always run with the kitchen end forward. That way the kitchen could also easily service the Turquoise Room in the short end of the dome. This is also why the dome was run long end first

[MisterBeasley]

Great! Now remember, you owe her a nice dinner out to make up for that hospital food. Which one's the dining car on that Super Chief?

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by MisterBeasley

Yeah, I felt the same when I opened up my subway train. Just last night I popped the lid off the powered unit and installed a decoder. Couldn't run it around much, though, because there's wet ballast glue on the tracks.

So, how's her knee doing?

Mister Beasley;

She is doing great, goes in on the 28th to have a follow up x-ray and have her staples out and then will be able to bend her knee to 90 degrees. She has been a real champ during her PT but is chomping at the bit to able to drive herself again; she doesnt enjoy being house bound even if she is mobile. [;)]

Peace.

Coyote

[MisterBeasley]

Yeah, I felt the same when I opened up my subway train. Just last night I popped the lid off the powered unit and installed a decoder. Couldn't run it around much, though, because there's wet ballast glue on the tracks.

So, how's her knee doing?

[Virginian]

Beautiful set. Enjoy it buddy.

[Anonymous]

Even when washed in many photo there was still some grime and dirt that just didnt come off. Metal has this little thing called tarnish! Please dont exile me for my apparent mistake to mention the thought of touching the icon of americana.

[Darth Santa Fe]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Texas Zepher

QUOTE: Originally posted by polizi
And think just how nice those will look when they have painstakingly been weathered by the grace of your own 2 hands.

Now that is a silly statement [:D]. This is the train of Hollywood and the Movie Stars. This isn't just any railroad this is the Santa Fe. To the very end they didn't let their crack passenger trains especially the Super Chief get dirty or "weathered". They would even wash it off in route if it got a little grime on it. And they didn't let Amtrak keep the name when Amtrak didn't hold up to those same standards.

It looks like it has chrome plating. Why weather it when it's chrome plated? I'd think he'd want to keep it *shiny*.[:)]

[Texas Zepher]

QUOTE: Originally posted by polizi
And think just how nice those will look when they have painstakingly been weathered by the grace of your own 2 hands.

Now that is a silly statement . This is the train of Hollywood and the Movie Stars. This isn't just any railroad this is the Santa Fe. To the very end they didn't let their crack passenger trains especially the Super Chief get dirty or "weathered". They would even wash it off in route if it got a little grime on it. And they didn't let Amtrak keep the name when Amtrak didn't hold up to those same standards.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by traintownofcowee

NICE!!
Although I'm a Southern Pacific fan.
The Santa Fe Chiefs were amazing!
But that is nice!
How much did that set cost anyways????

C U All L8TER!!!
[8D][:D][:)][:P][{(-_-)}][(-D][swg][8D]

The set of eight cars, engine, and dummy and 8 lighting sets cost me 619.30 with shipping.

Peace.

Coyote

[ChessieFan13]

WOW!!!!!!!![:D][8D][:O][;)] Sitting here reading your post I too got the feeling that you described..........Very insperational..to see other people have the innerchild have the controls for a while........Hope you and your OL have much fun and enjoyment as yall can handle

[rexhea]

Wow! What a beautiful set. [:p]
You must have been a good boy. Who said there wasn't a Santa Claus? [;)]

Have loads of fun.
REX

[twhite]

Although as a Rio Grande modeler I'm supposed to think of Santa Fe as 'the enemy', I've got to say that I've always thought that the Super Chief was one of the most beautiful trains that God ever imagined. I can just imagine how turned on you are with that set--I'd be jumping up and down and wetting my pants like a two-year old! Congratulations. Now on to Route 66, the Santa Fe mainline and years of wonderful model railroading. CHEERS!!
Tom [bow][bow]

[loathar]

SWEEEEEET!!!!!!! I used to have that train,but I sold it to help buy my first auto. Still kick myself to this day.
SCOTT- People on roller skates with swords. Now that's a sport I'd pay money to see!!

[traintownofcowee]

NICE!!
Although I'm a Southern Pacific fan.
The Santa Fe Chiefs were amazing!
But that is nice!
How much did that set cost anyways????

C U All L8TER!!!
[8D][:D][:)][:P][{(-_-)}][(-D][swg][8D]

[cheese3]

Nice!!!!

[Darth Santa Fe]

QUOTE: Originally posted by TrainFreak409

Woooooah, <drools> They are absolutely beautiful.

<Drools some more>

~[8]~ TrainFreak409 ~[8]~

[#ditto] I think my room is flooded with drool. I wish I could afford a Walthers/Athearn Super Chief.[:D]

[Anonymous]

I hope that the wife being in the hospital isn't serious.

[Anonymous]

now if they'd only do that with a CNW 400 train[;)]

[Trainnut484]

From one Santa Fe fan to another, I salute you [4:-)]

Take care,

Russell

[selector]

Congratulations! May they bring you many hours of pleasure...not that they haven't already, you know?

[TrainFreak409]

Woooooah, <drools> They are absolutely beautiful.

<Drools some more>

~[8]~ TrainFreak409 ~[8]~

[jimrice4449]

Nothing like starting w/ the best and most people would concede that the Super Chief was one if not THE best.

[Anonymous]

You Sir are Hooked straight thru the gills, I my self am like that everytime I get a new Train, or structure for my as yet to be built Railroad. Revell in its newness and bask in the wonder of what is yet to come as you dive into the possibilities of you new pastime, And think just how nice those will look when they have painstakingly been weathered by the grace of your own 2 hands. You sir are truly smitten with the Rail Road Bug. Enjoy

[Anonymous]

So sitting here thinking about the OL being in the hospital still I had completely forgotten that right before she went in we ordered our first train ever, the doorbell rang and there it was!

What excitement, it was like being a kid again at Christmas, the rich color of the packages, the divine heaviness of the boxes - full of physical suggestion that they contained some precious metal or hidden secret just waiting to be opened, the rich clean and antiseptic smell of the packaging.. all this and I hadnt even got them open yet!

With hands trembling, hands that rarely tremble over anything less than the lowest or highest of life experiancs, I draw the boxes open - what color, what texture, what detail and still that wonderful heaviness even out of the boxes. The the shock at the size and over all physicality so removed from distant tiny pictures on a computer or the unassable personal determination of how heavy it would be in full scale. The new appreciation for anyone that deals in a scale larger or smaller than HO and puzzlement at how it can even be done! And then amazement, childlike joy and something missed for so long - a desire to -play-!

A quick desire to show the OL so off to take pictures but seems wrong somehow to just snap pics of them just sitting on the table, so a hasty arrangement on the hearth, the Christmas Air deepening as I do it... a few quick snaps and call the OL; she giggles and gasps her own small girl inside as joyed as my little guy is, we chatter and part.

Then fast off, back to the virtual world to show my new buddies; the images of all the times those friends, I've lost through time or growing up, gathered to show each other our new baseball cards or marbles or neatest 'new thing' now coming on hard..

Hey Guys!!!!!! Look what I got!

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*takes a deep breath* Ok, can anyone else tell Im hooked hard?! [:D][:D]

Peace.

Coyote