I got 40' of track stuck down and wired up so far this weekend.(Up the Big Hill) Overall it has been a very productive weekend. Now if I can get that beer drunk I'll be able to get that train moving.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Turn the power on, I dare you!
I hate Rust
Before securing the cans to the cars, you could connect them via flexible hosing and then save the exertion of lifting each can individually. There is a prototypical tank car from GATX that followed the same principal - just not with beer.
I was about to say that we're rushing the season a might, but since the better half tells me that the local mall has their xmas decorations up maybe not.
But can't we at least celebrate Columbus day first?
I really like your sense of humor!!! Great railroading! Choo choo
BATMAN I got 40' of track stuck down
Well Brent, I was glad to see that you were smart enough not to use LITE beer.
Bob
Don't Ever Give Up
I believe are friends up North have a different Thanksgivings than us in the states.
Happy Thanksgiving, B'Man! Great way to use beer cans.
Nice splines you have there.
-Crandell
Tank Train, eh?
Bill
"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig"
Authentic beer can cars
Springfield PA
cudaken I believe are friends up North have a different Thanksgivings than us in the states.
Now what would give you that idea?
Oh BTW----are you having Columbus Day on Monday? ---Have a good one!
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
They advertise the Coors Silver Bullet here in the states - I like your Moosehead Express better.
Chuck
Grand River & Monongah Railroad and subsidiary Monongah Railway
Here in Canadaland we have thanksgiving today, Oct.11, we have no Pilgrims up here, just some hosers scoffing down Saskatoon pie and snorting "mooseheads" So tomorrow is Columbus Day eh? by the way, who was Amerigo Vespucci ? ?
tatansby the way, who was Amerigo Vespucci ? ?
by the way, who was Amerigo Vespucci ? ?
Well, we know he wasn't Canadian, for a start. Cheers!
I'm trying to model 1956, not live in it.
Happy Thanksgiving, neighbors. Yup, tomorrow the US Snail has another excuse to non-perform...
When you've reached my age, and dodged as many bullets as I have (some of them launched from General Kalashnikov's Wonder Weapon,) every day is Thanksgiving. When you're living on borrowed time, you can't help wondering when the note will come due...
IIRC, Signor Vespucci produced what was reputed to be the first map of the New World. He bunched all the Carribbean Islands around the present location of Key West, put New York (not named as such) somewhere near Hudson's Bay (Well, where else would the Hudson River empty?) and then gave the whole works his name...
His FIRST name...
Chuck (Modleing Central Japan in September, 1964)
tatansHere in Canadaland we have thanksgiving today, Oct.11, we have no Pilgrims up here, just some hosers scoffing down Saskatoon pie and snorting "mooseheads" So tomorrow is Columbus Day eh? by the way, who was Amerigo Vespucci ?
Vespucci was an Italian cartographer who may or may not be the person the continents of North and South America are named after ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas#Naming) depending on whom you believe. Some history of Columbus day is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_Day. In this area we celebrate the fact that Columbus actually got lost because he didn't ask the queen for directions when he borrowed her jewels to buy three locomotives ships and his GPS battery was dead. Normally the celebration involves a parade with the participants snorting the USA equivalent of "mooseheads" and eating TastyKakes, except this year we will celebrate by complaining that it is unfair that the parade has been cancelled because the mayor says he doesn't have any money to spend cleaning up after us.
Although Columbus may not have actually discovered America, it is generally accepted that he did stop in New Jersey and may be directly related to Tony Soprano, who we all know had a friend that got wacked in a train store because he liked toy trains instead of scale models.
alfadawg01Tank Train, eh?
Life is simple - eat, drink, play with trains!
Go Big Red!
PA&ERR "If you think you are doing something stupid, you're probably right!"
Happy thanksgiving day, neigbors.
I got to ask this one; If it's a canadian holiday, why do you have a US steamer (A berkshire) in the picture?
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
A beer train, how appropriate. It is Oktoberfest time here in the Kitchener Ontario area. Largest Oktoberfest in the world outside of Germany. I think I should model the same.
Frank
"If you need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm."
That's one huge shipment of moose juice! I wonder how it would work in a smoke unit.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the Great White North.
Nelson
Ex-Southern 385 Being Hoisted
Packer Happy thanksgiving day, neigbors. I got to ask this one; If it's a canadian holiday, why do you have a US steamer (A berkshire) in the picture?
The Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Ry had two Berks manufactured by MLW. They were the only two ever built in Canada and the only two ever operated in Canada. #'s 201 and 202.
PackerHappy thanksgiving day, neigbors. I got to ask this one; If it's a canadian holiday, why do you have a US steamer (A berkshire) in the picture?
Actually it is a Paragon C&O 2-10-4 and it's hauling eleven Canadian Pacific Rapido cars up a 2% grade like nobody's business.
My story is, when Canada entered WW2 in 1939 President Roosevelt said "give those Canucks anything they need to help in the war effort". So the CPR asked for some of the C&Os 2-10-4s and got them. They just forgot to give this one back and still had it in 1957 which is when this scene took place.
Truth be told I have always liked this particular engine. It should have been a CPR engine.