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++You have no more room to store those 300 brass locomotives you keep buying. ++You let a CAT in the same room as your layout, and now you rebuild for the 34th time. ++ You attend train shows and come back home with another car full of more "stuff"
How good were the headlights on steamers, I remember as a kid seeing plenty of headlights but never from the cab, did they actually light up ahead ? I wonder now what was the use, they couldn't stop if they wanted to, maybe it was to see what you were going to hit. How efficient were these lights, I can't remember seeing a loco with it's light off, even in the day time.
The only military trains you will see in Canada are 95 car trains with tanks, troop carriers, heavy duty trucks, etc etc and cabooses for the armed guards, and they are BRITISH, on their way to Suffield Alberta for military excersizes, no, Canada does not have military trains, that's what the C.P.R. is for.
You mean to say there really are other craftsman structures than "walthers'' which seems to be a catch-phrase on this forum, great photos, love to attend the show.
I recall a geologist when sitting wells in far Northern Alberta would take locomotive kits and build them when on deep wells, sometimes 3 - 4 weeks at a shift. Nice that an oil company helped pay for someones hobby, beats sitting in a trailer with a bottle of rum eh?
People refer to walthers this and walthers that, so in their online catalog they sell other manufacturers kits, for example, does walthers have a factory where they make products with their name on it, such as building kits etc. ?
On older logging railroads almost any type of boxcar was used, even hi-cubes, the wider door made it easier to load dimensional lumber, it would seem that because of the height of the car, filling to the ceiling would not be advisable, I filled a model with doors open and it looks great, and the nice part is the interior is hollow as all you see is the first outside row of lumber.
Newest New York fashion designs for today's Railroad Engineer, fireman and rail crew, spandex, high-heel boots, silk scarves, matching caps and gloves. Vanity Fair and Train Stuff.
O K We now have choo-choo sounds, we have smoke, steam from generator cars, hand held controls, DC-3 thingies, So what is the next BIG ''thing" ? ? steam coming from the coupler hoses? animated humans lurking around the layout? abolish bamboo skewers? There must be all kinds of new stuff the makers are working on, anyone heard of new "stuff" coming in the future? I wonder what will be the really big thing to own in the new soon, any rumors or news out there, enquiring minds
HEY, c'mon, Isn't that Morant's Curve ? ? There is a mountain conspicuously missing as it was ground down to make cement, now they are dismantling the mountain across from Canmore, Alberta. The plant actually tried a process of burning tires for a heat source, but for some reason stopped, at the rate of mountain levelling you should be able to see Banff in a few years. There was a "rock wool" plant around here back in the early 60's, nice photo
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