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[Milwhiawatha]

Brakie,

  I have been awaiting this locomotive since they announced it. I wanted an MP15 something so I found one of Concors MP15DC's in UP paint for 20.00 this is the older style not the newer version. But still looks and runs nice, Infact been toying with installing DCC in it. But I stil want an Athearn MP15AC in Milwaukee paint.

[BRAKIE]

Ok now that the air is cleared does anyone want the MP15AC ?

 I am patiently awaiting that locomotive..Maybe some day? When the cows come home perhaps? Chickens goes to roost maybe?

[Milwhiawatha]

Ok now that the air is cleared does anyone want the MP15AC ?

[claymore1977]

Well, OK. If that's the way you want it, I'll not come near this thread again.

 

is it OK or Okay?  :P  (that was a joke, so keep your flamethrowers to yourselves!)

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Well, OK. If that's the way you want it, I'll not come near this thread again.

[Anonymous]

Open up a thread and discuss it somewhere else!

I dont want to see this thread destruct into another shouting match over errors or percieved flaws. That pretty much shows what poor quality some of us are.

Maybe Im the one with the problem and I would be the first to put the internet down and back away from it.

Settle down folks!

[rrebell]

Ok, here goes. For all you who bad mouth people who can't spell, well I can't either and I have two college degrees, so what if you want correct spelling on this forum have them add spell cheaker. As for those who bad mouth the chinese, remember at one time the japanese had nothing but money and they were buying up america left and right and making alot of americans rich, then the economy changed and alot lost their shirts and americans bought the stuff back for cheap in some cases. Now its the chinese turn, it all goes in cycles. As for athearn stuff, most of it I don't have a use for as it is not as detailed as the proto stuff but I do have a few reworked peices.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

SO next time you feel like you have to correct someone for a misspelled word, wrong punctuation, and sentence structure look at yourself because your not perfect either

Works for me. I know I'm not perfect. I just believe that if I can spell well on a standard keyboard with two bad hands, someone with two good hands should be able to do the same. Likewise with detail work. If I can do a passable job of it, anyone else should be able to. Oh yeah, and broken off steps? I can live with broken off/missing steps without a problem.

[Milwhiawatha]

Ok this is getting old, what do you mean you ask? Well I'm sick of people bashing everyone on line, I'm sick of hearing you spelled this word and that word wrong blah blah blah. How many of you are over 18 and cant handle misspelled words? Grow up and leave people alone. Where do all your morals and sense of behavior go? I can't believe your sitting on a model railroad forum scrutinizing someone's spelling, or structure of his or her sentences. For man sakes it's a model railroad forum.

And complaining to someone who noticed steps were missing on the kit they bought wow. How many people didn't grow up to show some respect towards one another?

People like this are the reason so many members leave, and the reason soooooo many people start the hobby and leave. SO next time you feel like you have to correct someone for a misspelled word, wrong punctuation, and sentence structure look at yourself because your not perfect either

[BRAKIE]

    I have the  "MIC" kits for both the PS covered hopper and the ACF. The stirrups on the ACF are molded onto the underframe assembly, not the car body.

 

Absolutely..Been like that since the car was introduce in the 60's.I forgot about the ACF CH..I haven't bought that kit in years.Still the car has stirrups.

[jfallon]

    I have the  "MIC" kits for both the PS covered hopper and the ACF. The stirrups on the ACF are molded onto the underframe assembly, not the car body.

[BRAKIE]

So the spelling is a little rusty, I dont care.

I may be looking for these kits next week and if I find a few China kits I will look em over and see if the steps are molded on as the old ones are or not.

If the steps are missing because someone forgot to include the tooling for them... well... I have two things to say...

Quality control does not exist.

China could care less about corner steps.

I HOPE that these missing steps was a bon-chance or a one off incident like the plastic wheels and not illustrative of future expectations for shoddy and badly built items.

SV,Think of this..These are the same cars that come RTR.

Making any sense now?

Sheesh..Think my friend think..

[BRAKIE]

Jeffery-gaurantee?? Is that the Cajun spelling? ;-)

 

No..I been to Cajun country once while on vacation.That's the(in my best Popeye voice) pronoucekanation.

Consider this: That's the only word I misspelled in that entire statement, and I didn't use a spell checker. Also consider: I may have misspelled it on purpose just to show that I'm not perfect either.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Jeffery-gaurantee?? Is that the Cajun spelling? ;-)

 

No..I been to Cajun country once while on vacation.That's the(in my best Popeye voice) pronoucekanation.

Consider this: That's the only word I misspelled in that entire statement, and I didn't use a spell checker. Also consider: I may have misspelled it on purpose just to show that I'm not perfect either.

[Anonymous]

So the spelling is a little rusty, I dont care.

I may be looking for these kits next week and if I find a few China kits I will look em over and see if the steps are molded on as the old ones are or not.

If the steps are missing because someone forgot to include the tooling for them... well... I have two things to say...

Quality control does not exist.

China could care less about corner steps.

I HOPE that these missing steps was a bon-chance or a one off incident like the plastic wheels and not illustrative of future expectations for shoddy and badly built items.

[WCfan]

Brakie, Both where missing and it didn't look like they broke off. But what do I know? Maybe they did brake off. I guess I would have to buy the kit and find out.

 I didn't want people to think I was saying somthing bad about Athearn. Just pointing it out, that's all.

[BRAKIE]

Well, I saw one of the New Athearn BB kits at my LHS. I saw a Grain Happer model of WC. I looked and Noticed that there where not Stirrups by the latters.

Enough of the  "Support the USA" crap.  Start your own thread if you want to involve politics and your sort of posting garbage.  Also, I have two words for you - SPELL CHECK!

My seven year old son knows how to spell and use punctuation/capitalization better than you!

What? All I said was That they where missing the Stirrups. I never said any thing about Politics in that. And I was neevr saying any thing about Politics. Just saying that there should be stuff still made in USA and not all of it in China. That's all.

Ok here's the stuff in the red. Are you thinking about the thread in Trains Mag? Becasue It wasn't me who Started it. I was just re-typing it.

What eevr I did SORRY. What ever I did?

 

 

Actually  everybody knows the steps is molded on..In order to have the missing steps the tooling would need to be changed costing thousands of dollars not to mention thousands of dollars more in lost sales.

Do you think the folks at Athearn are stupid?

IF the steps is indeed missing then they was more then likely broken off in the hobby shop or more then likely you didn't notice them.

[WCfan]

Well, I saw one of the New Athearn BB kits at my LHS. I saw a Grain Happer model of WC. I looked and Noticed that there where not Stirrups by the latters.

Enough of the  "Support the USA" crap.  Start your own thread if you want to involve politics and your sort of posting garbage.  Also, I have two words for you - SPELL CHECK!

My seven year old son knows how to spell and use punctuation/capitalization better than you!

What? All I said was That they where missing the Stirrups. I never said any thing about Politics in that. And I was neevr saying any thing about Politics. Just saying that there should be stuff still made in USA and not all of it in China. That's all.

Ok here's the stuff in the red. Are you thinking about the thread in Trains Mag? Becasue It wasn't me who Started it. I was just re-typing it.

What eevr I did SORRY. What ever I did?

 

[BRAKIE]

Jeffery-gaurantee?? Is that the Cajun spelling? ;-)

 

No..I been to Cajun country once while on vacation.That's the(in my best Popeye voice) pronoucekanation.

[loathar]

Jeffery-gaurantee?? Is that the Cajun spelling? ;-)

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Well, I saw one of the New Athearn BB kits at my LHS. I saw a Grain Happer model of WC. I looked and Noticed that there where not Stirrups by the latters.

Enough of the  "Support the USA" crap.  Start your own thread if you want to involve politics and your sort of posting garbage.  Also, I have two words for you - SPELL CHECK!

My seven year old son knows how to spell and use punctuation/capitalization better than you!

Amen to that! WCfan: I'm a disabled veteran with partial use of my hands and no feeling in my fingers at all and I spell better than that, before using a spell checker. Education or the lack thereof can't be used as a reason for bad spelling either, because I made C's and D's in school and I still spell and use punctuation much better than that. I guarantee that if you use spelling like that on an employment application, you will never get the job, unless everyone else who applied are a bunch of ignorant savages.

[ezielinski]

Well, I saw one of the New Athearn BB kits at my LHS. I saw a Grain Happer model of WC. I looked and Noticed that there where not Stirrups by the latters.

Enough of the  "Support the USA" crap.  Start your own thread if you want to involve politics and your sort of posting garbage.  Also, I have two words for you - SPELL CHECK!

My seven year old son knows how to spell and use punctuation/capitalization better than you!

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Everybody get your hip waders out!

[BRAKIE]

Well, I saw one of the New Athearn BB kits at my LHS. I saw a Grain Happer model of WC. I looked and Noticed that there where not Stirrups by the latters.

 

That I will need to see..

I think things are beginning to get deep around here.

[WCfan]

Well, I saw one of the New Athearn BB kits at my LHS. I saw a Grain Happer model of WC. I looked and Noticed that there where not Stirrups by the latters.

[BRAKIE]

So. Are we going to be assembling what is basically the same as thier RTR stuff for a few dollars less then?

 

More then likely..As I once pointed out there are road names available as a kit or RTR.

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Probably.

[Anonymous]

So. Are we going to be assembling what is basically the same as thier RTR stuff for a few dollars less then?

[ericsp]

Athearn finally replied.

The bodies are molded there but we paint and assemble the kits here.