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Warren Buffet is a self made Billionaire. No money from Daddy and Mummy. I gained alot of respect for him when, on a nationaly televised interview, he said," the lady that cleans out the trash can in my office is taxed at a higher rate than I am" "Theres something wrong with that"" The rich have never had it any better than the last 10 years." He is a billionaire,but he's still down to earth enough to tell it like he sees it. No BS. I like that.
I assume that a single, 12ga buss for my 80ft "circle" of track will be OK?Im running 20ga feeders every 3ft. I will run no more than 4 sound equiped locos at a time. Im using a Prodigy Advance Sq. unit. Im putting the booster unit close the middle of the 80ft. Basically two 40ft lengths of track with the booster in the middle. Do you think the DCC signal will be ok?
5% discount? Wrong. I have a very good relationship with my LHS. I ought to as much $$ as I spend there. When I find something I want, I call them. At what price can you get that for me. He says let me check what kind of discount I get from them. They vary, some are as much as 40%, some as little as 10%. I just ordered 5 Herpa Shermans from him, he said he wasnt sure what Herpa's discount was, bit he was sure he could get a Sherman with a Walthers price of $9.25 for less than $8.00. That is defenetly
Cant believe no one mentioned that movie, what was it called? with Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. The one where the F unit smashes through Grand Central Station.
Just to be clear, in my above post I was calling the OLD LifeLike or Bachmann cars blobs of plastic. These where/are the brightly colored sedans and stationwagens I first remember in the 70's The newer LifeLike cars are ALOT better. After I put some wide whites on them from Busch , they look pretty darn good. I believe the Lifelike police cars are the same car and I like them too.
"Early" I remember them being green glass in the 70's. My friends and I would pick them up and turn them in for spending money. I have an example of almost every size Coke bottle produced displayed above my kitchen cabinets. I havent tried it, but how about using the semi transparent paint used to simulate stained glass? I used some to color the glass in my front door.
At the same time as Im cussing the HO auto makers for being slow, I appreciate there efforts. Alot has been said about the leaps forward in the quality and technology in loco's, DCC, etc, but HO vehicles are doing a good job of keeping up. Just think of those blobs of plastic LifeLike called cars we all remember. I'm having almost as much fun collecting HO vehicles as trains. So thanks Classic Model Works, Athearn, Ricko, Model Power, Atlas, Jodan, etc,etc.
I really like the older Classic Metal Works cars and trucks too. Im really not sure why they discontinued the early ones. I heard somewhere that they were made in a different factory. I've also noticed, like Don mentioned the prices for those early vehicles. Lucky me, I have a maroon 51 Hudson, two 53 fords,one a police car, and the woody. I still would like to get the cool flatbed Ford and a 50 Chevy Fleetline.
Purchase a 18mm speaker, it will press fit into the cab roof and stay put with no glue. I did this and it is alot easier than cutting and dremeling. You can barely see the speaker after install.
Yeah, the ad's say at your local hobby shop now.....not!!!
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