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Posted by Guilford Guy on Monday, July 28, 2008 7:00 PM
I have skype, its pretty good. If anyone wants to chat my username is Masachistic_Santazzz
 

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Posted by Packers#1 on Monday, July 28, 2008 7:15 PM

THis might happen, or might not. okay, so now I'm going from New Bedford, MA to Portland, Maine (yeah, I keep going northward). The RR's name is the New Bedford Northern, era is 1989-present. layout is the middle of a branch line w/ the towns of Darkwater (fake), concord (real), bowscawen (real), and it continues on.

branchline-http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tab=wl

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Posted by WCfan on Monday, July 28, 2008 7:31 PM

Sawyer, if your modeling 1989-Present, you should buy NREX 2500, ex WC 2500. She is a SD39Q that went through some heavy rebuilds on WC, and even more on CN. Untill she got sold to NREX. Great locomotive, she worked in Wausau industrys. Which is basicaly a big branch line.

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Posted by Packers#1 on Monday, July 28, 2008 7:42 PM
Okay, this is it! I'm about to go nuts! I can't freakin' decide on what to do! So now, for about the 20th time today, I'm changing the locale. I noiw model 1989-present. I now model the middle of a branch line. And I now model a northeast setting. no particular state, no particular towns. Just some place w/ dark green forests, mountains, rivers, etc. Not worrying about naming towns or making a history for anything (though if Ty says yes to an interchange, then that'll be there). Stuffs there because I like it. Finally, I found my balance. BTW, wcfan, do you have any idea how I could make a SD39Q in N scale? Like, what frame should I use to start it? What body types will work, etc.?

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Posted by Railfan Alex on Monday, July 28, 2008 7:46 PM

Jordan, you have Skype?

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Posted by WCfan on Monday, July 28, 2008 7:47 PM

Making a SD39Q would be easy.

Buy a Atlas WC SD35.

Buy some N scale "Flex Coil" truck side frames, aka SD38, SD40, and SD45 truck side frames.

Remove the SD35 truck side frames and attach the Flex Coil trucks.

It's that easy. Basicaly the only diffrence was the Trucks. You will also have to model the "Q-Tron" control. But that's an easy one too.

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Posted by WCfan on Monday, July 28, 2008 7:49 PM
 Railfan Alex wrote:

Jordan, you have Skype?

Nope.

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Posted by Railfan Alex on Monday, July 28, 2008 7:51 PM

Too bad.

lol acting like i own the thing, just got it lol, chating with BB

edit: that's GG, not BB

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Posted by WCfan on Monday, July 28, 2008 7:53 PM
I have MSN messenger. Soon to have AIM and Yahoo once I get off my butt and make an account...
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Posted by Guilford Guy on Monday, July 28, 2008 7:54 PM
  1.  WCfan wrote:
     Railfan Alex wrote:

    Jordan, you have Skype?

    Nope.

    Let me rephrase that as a question from a different alex...

    Jordan, I demand you to get skype!

    Heh...

    Sawyer- CSX is trying to rid themselves of their Eastern Massachusetts Trackage... You could essentially "take-over" what they operate around hollywood(lines south of Boston), but have the company based out of Maine. There is an abandoned right of way from Newburyport MA out to Portsmouth NH and ultimately  Portland. You could secure trackage rights from MBTA down to Chelsea, where CSX runs to go to a Produce Company. From Chelsea you'd go south to their main yard outside Boston, where you can base all your Trains... 

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Posted by Guilford Guy on Monday, July 28, 2008 7:55 PM

 WCfan wrote:
I have MSN messenger. Soon to have AIM and Yahoo once I get off my butt and make an account...

yeah uh, I don't think I have your MSN...

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Posted by Railfan Alex on Monday, July 28, 2008 8:00 PM

My dad's had too many virus stuff with MSN, don't know if I'll ever get that...

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Posted by WCfan on Monday, July 28, 2008 8:00 PM

No Alex, I beg of you, don't BLIND ME with color. Have Mercy!!! Evil [}:)]

Sawyer, here is NREX 2500. Horriable Patch Job. They bought WC 2500 from CN a few weeks ago, just take her off your hands and put a nice Maroon Patch over the big white "NREX", and a nice gold patch over the big black patchs, and over the WC sheilds. Then in maroon have the name of your RR where the "Wisconsin Central" was...Wink [;)]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3148/2554790102_273cb55547.jpg?v=0

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Posted by WCfan on Monday, July 28, 2008 8:01 PM
 Guilford Guy wrote:

 WCfan wrote:
I have MSN messenger. Soon to have AIM and Yahoo once I get off my butt and make an account...

yeah uh, I don't think I have your MSN...

Uh yea, I don't have yours eather.

Humm, I have alot of probs with MSN my self. Kicks me off, freezes up, ect. So yea MSN is like a virus magnet. Angry [:(!]

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Posted by Railfan Alex on Monday, July 28, 2008 8:03 PM

So get Skype! It's so easy! I'm a pro and i've been using it for 30 seconds! Everyone here get Skype! I demand you, the force of Alex's demands you!

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Posted by Railfan Alex on Monday, July 28, 2008 8:04 PM
Whops, how did that happen?

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Posted by WCfan on Monday, July 28, 2008 8:04 PM
 Railfan Alex wrote:

So get Skype! It's so easy! I'm a pro and i've been using it for 30 seconds! Everyone here get Skype! I demand you, the force of Alex's demands you!

Nooo, don't blind us. HAVE MERCY!!!!!

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Posted by Railfan Alex on Monday, July 28, 2008 8:05 PM
Is 2500 an SD35?

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Posted by Railfan Alex on Monday, July 28, 2008 8:06 PM
 WCfan wrote:
 Railfan Alex wrote:

So get Skype! It's so easy! I'm a pro and i've been using it for 30 seconds! Everyone here get Skype! I demand you, the force of Alex's demands you!

Nooo, don't blind us. HAVE MERCY!!!!!

lol, funny part was the giganto font was an accident, not a reply to "HAVE MERCY!"

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Posted by WCfan on Monday, July 28, 2008 8:09 PM

 Railfan Alex wrote:
Is 2500 an SD35?

Basicaly. Ex WC 2500, Exx FRV 2500, Nee SOU ?. After a major electrical fire on the WC, WC rebuild her with new Wiring, higher voltage Electrical cabinets, Flex Coil Trucks, Q-Tron Control, the whole works.

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Posted by Packers#1 on Monday, July 28, 2008 8:15 PM

Pretty easy. I like the SD35. Of course, an SD35 has to be able to survive a 15-in. radius curve.

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Posted by Packers#1 on Monday, July 28, 2008 8:20 PM
 Railfan Alex wrote:

So get Skype! It's so easy! I'm a pro and i've been using it for 30 seconds! Everyone here get Skype! I demand you, the force of Alex's demands you!

Just come make me, lol. Yeah, the 2500 sounds like a cool little project. GG, I'll research what you're talking about tommorow, watching Fool's Gold right now.

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Posted by WCfan on Monday, July 28, 2008 8:35 PM

Here's a photo gallery of WC 2500. There's a Button on top, or close to the top of the page, it says "Next", and that's how you go to the next page. Sounds silly, but I didn't notice that at first. lol

http://thomas766.fotopic.net/c167550.html

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Posted by Packers#1 on Monday, July 28, 2008 8:44 PM

GG, so that would be a main line along the Atlantic ocean from Boston-Portland, right? Sounds good, but how about a co. in upstate New york, that operates out of Albany, and goes to Troy, Schenectady, Amsterdam, Saratoga Springs, and goes to Pittsfield, MA. Yeah, I like that, an upstate New York line that goes through many mountains (important). and of course, I have Jean craighead george's books my side of the mountain and the followers.

this would be the branch's route: http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tab=wl

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Posted by Packers#1 on Monday, July 28, 2008 9:12 PM
 WCfan wrote:

Here's a photo gallery of WC 2500. There's a Button on top, or close to the top of the page, it says "Next", and that's how you go to the next page. Sounds silly, but I didn't notice that at first. lol

http://thomas766.fotopic.net/c167550.html

Well, Atlas made a WC 2500 SD35, but that was in '05, so they've sold out. I think I'd make it from either an sP SD35 or a Southern (high hood, it looks cool) SD35. Of course, i have a faint idea of where to get the truck sides.

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Posted by Guilford Guy on Monday, July 28, 2008 9:13 PM

The Amsterdam-Albany, Saratoga-Albany, and Pittsfield-Albany are major routes of CP, and CSX.

There used to be a line from Pittsfield-North Adams. I suppose you could run from Pittsfield to  North Adams, cut over parallel to the B&M Lines as far as Johnsonville, where you could take the abandoned B&M Line into Troy, and ultimately Albany.

If you wanted to you could absorb the Housatonic, gaining you access south of Pittsfield into Connecticut...

My msn is: xo_guilford_guy@hotmail.com, but I'd prefer aim(Ozz de Russe 617), or skype (masachistic santazzz).

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Posted by WCfan on Monday, July 28, 2008 9:17 PM
 Packersnumber1 wrote:
 WCfan wrote:

Here's a photo gallery of WC 2500. There's a Button on top, or close to the top of the page, it says "Next", and that's how you go to the next page. Sounds silly, but I didn't notice that at first. lol

http://thomas766.fotopic.net/c167550.html

Well, Atlas made a WC 2500 SD35, but that was in '05, so they've sold out. I think I'd make it from either an sP SD35 or a Southern (high hood, it looks cool) SD35. Of course, i have a faint idea of where to get the truck sides.

Keep an eye out on Ebay, they show up.

http://search.ebay.com/Wisconsin-Central_W0QQ_trksidZm37QQfromZR40

That's a link to the General WC Stuff. Right now an Altas N SD35 hasn't showed up, btu i ahve seen a few.

GG, mine is boscreek99@hotmail.com . So if you want to add me ya can. I don't really mine who is on my MSN. lol.

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Posted by Packers#1 on Monday, July 28, 2008 9:19 PM
I don't use Ebay. Man, I wish I had a map of the US that had all the little towns on it. That'd make creating histories and lines so much easier

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Posted by Packers#1 on Monday, July 28, 2008 9:38 PM
Moving the railroad down to the Blue Ridge foothills in either North or South Carolina.

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Posted by Guilford Guy on Monday, July 28, 2008 9:44 PM
Sit at your desk, and ponder each decision until one works and you still like it after half an hour... Then post it here... Smile [:)]

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