Toy train operating and collecting

choochin3 wrote:

Ben, I feel your pain about the damage to your Hogwarts loco. A section of drywall fell from my ceiling last night and knocked my Hogwarts engine down 14 steps,and ended up in the kitchen. My wife thought I fell down the stairs,but the sound she heard was my loco taking a tumble. The damage,2 broken buffers,1 broken handrail stantion,a cylinder bent in a little, a bent truck axle,and numerous scratches and dings. Also damaged was my Lionel Alaska GP7,and the tender for my postwar 250 (the drywall hit this one dead on).   Very Sad Right Now, Carl T.

 Hi, thanks for the tutoring on the brittish trains I must confess my ignorance of these beautiful trains is nearly complete. I have always liked them but until now they weren't represented in "O" gauge at all. I guess I always pictured them as older than they are.

it has been a bad week! I went on a bicycle ride this week end and the wind caught the

bikes on the rack shoved them together breaking my ultra rare accessory propeller this is the only one known to still exist. so I too feel you guys' pain!

Scott 

Buckeye Riveter wrote:

Has anyone heard of a TMCC retrofit to HE?

I've read that Jon of "ERR" has done this. Electronics go in engine & a speaker in the small tender.

37fleetwood wrote:

choochin3 wrote: Ben, I feel your pain about the damage to your Hogwarts loco. A section of drywall fell from my ceiling last night and knocked my Hogwarts engine down 14 steps,and ended up in the kitchen. My wife thought I fell down the stairs,but the sound she heard was my loco taking a tumble. The damage,2 broken buffers,1 broken handrail stantion,a cylinder bent in a little, a bent truck axle,and numerous scratches and dings. Also damaged was my Lionel Alaska GP7,and the tender for my postwar 250 (the drywall hit this one dead on).   Very Sad Right Now, Carl T.  Hi, thanks for the tutoring on the brittish trains I must confess my ignorance of these beautiful trains is nearly complete. I have always liked them but until now they weren't represented in "O" gauge at all. I guess I always pictured them as older than they are. it has been a bad week! I went on a bicycle ride this week end and the wind caught the bikes on the rack shoved them together breaking my ultra rare accessory propeller this is the only one known to still exist. so I too feel you guys' pain! Scott

Boy, it sucks to be you two! 

Jumijo wrote:

37fleetwood wrote:  choochin3 wrote: Ben, I feel your pain about the damage to your Hogwarts loco. A section of drywall fell from my ceiling last night and knocked my Hogwarts engine down 14 steps,and ended up in the kitchen. My wife thought I fell down the stairs,but the sound she heard was my loco taking a tumble. The damage,2 broken buffers,1 broken handrail stantion,a cylinder bent in a little, a bent truck axle,and numerous scratches and dings. Also damaged was my Lionel Alaska GP7,and the tender for my postwar 250 (the drywall hit this one dead on).   Very Sad Right Now, Carl T.  Hi, thanks for the tutoring on the brittish trains I must confess my ignorance of these beautiful trains is nearly complete. I have always liked them but until now they weren't represented in "O" gauge at all. I guess I always pictured them as older than they are. it has been a bad week! I went on a bicycle ride this week end and the wind caught the bikes on the rack shoved them together breaking my ultra rare accessory propeller this is the only one known to still exist. so I too feel you guys' pain! Scott      Boy, it sucks to be you two!

Ben, Carl, and Scott.....tragic is all I can say.  That's three serious train disasters and a damaged propeller reported in the forum the past week.

Jim, those wide whitewall tires on that old bike may convince the youngsters on the forum that we rode pimpmobiles way back when, and that's how we earned our spending money.  Wow, a speedo/odo too.

Jack 

Jack,

Give me a bike like that anyday! Stick a crappy Marty Pattin or Joe Pepitone
(Yankees )  Topps baseball card in the spokes and you're living large!

Jim 

Carl,

Let me please offer my condolences-it sounds as though your HE faired much worse than mine did.

I found Testor's black enamel to be a reasonable match to the black paint on the engine-the places I touched up are hardly visible. 

In going over mine, I also found that the drawbar was bent. The drawbar, though, is actually held on by means of a C-clip. It came right off for straightening. If one were so inclined, it would be extremely easy to fashion and install a shorter drawbar made from brass or some other such material-the drawbar is only a straight piece of sheet metal with two equal sized holes drilled in either end of it. 

For me, this is only the second engine-off-the table incident I've had happen. The first was a PW 675 which landed right on the carpet, and was none the worse for wear.  Unfortunately, it  would be my first brand new engine since building the layout that would go off, and furthermore would land on the hardest spot(the 70 year old Remington typwriter) under the train table. I guess that that's what I get for storing non train related items under the train table. 

Jumijo wrote:

Jack, Give me a bike like that anyday! Stick a crappy Marty Pattin or Joe Pepitone (Yankees )  Topps baseball card in the spokes and you're living large! Jim

A Joe Pepitone 1962-1969, yes.  But 70-73 no, he got religion and was a Cubbie.  Using our parents' playing cards lasted until they went to play bridge or something, then it got ugly.

Jack.