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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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!!!!!
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!"
Alex
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...
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.
No Alex, I beg of you, don't BLIND ME with color. Have Mercy!!!
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...
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3148/2554790102_273cb55547.jpg?v=0
My dad's had too many virus stuff with MSN, don't know if I'll ever get that...
WCfan wrote: Railfan Alex wrote: Jordan, you have Skype?Nope.
Railfan Alex wrote: Jordan, you have Skype?
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...
Too bad.
lol acting like i own the thing, just got it lol, chating with BB
edit: that's GG, not BB
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.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
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.
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
Railfan Alex wrote: Guilford Guy wrote: snipDudez... we need to have a big like chat or 5 way call or something some Friday night, just to rant about random train BS... dudezzzzzzzzzzz... Yeah lol, that wouldn't sound bad! Anyone use Skype? I never have, my dad and people from his company do, so they don't have to go to the office for a 15 minute meeting.
Guilford Guy wrote: snipDudez... we need to have a big like chat or 5 way call or something some Friday night, just to rant about random train BS... dudezzzzzzzzzzz...
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Dudez... we need to have a big like chat or 5 way call or something some Friday night, just to rant about random train BS... dudezzzzzzzzzzz...
Yeah lol, that wouldn't sound bad! Anyone use Skype? I never have, my dad and people from his company do, so they don't have to go to the office for a 15 minute meeting.
Since I can't get a freakin' IM address 'til I'm 14 (about 4 months), you'll have to count me out. BTW, TYler, check your PMs.
Noooo! Don't eat up M&E!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_BlnvsCRp4 (skip ahead to 0:52)
Guilford Guy wrote:What if... you had a diamond or bridge.... say a train came from where the furniture plant heading towards staging, at which point it would cross over the other line, wind down great, go under the line they were just on, and pop out by the snack food plant... Sort of liek tehachapi, but will get rid of the S curves, and provide a wider radius... I'll draw a plan on graph paper just a little cleaned up.
Thanks, because you've kinda lost me (of course, I'm not exactly the best at following what goes to where).
Oh no, Eastern Short lines!!! MUST...GO...BACK...TO WISCONSIN...WC, TR, ELS, WSOR...
TrainManTy wrote: WCfan wrote: It just reminds me so much of the WC Scheme! It has absolutely nothing to do with Ed Burkhart!Umm....actually it does. Ed Burkhardt was fired from the WC, then he founded RailWorld, which took the former Bangor & Aroostok and turned it into the MM&A. The BAR was totally bankrupt and had horrible service, plus it owed many of the online shippers (what little hadn't switched to trucks because of the service) money. It was a pretty bad situation.
WCfan wrote: It just reminds me so much of the WC Scheme! It has absolutely nothing to do with Ed Burkhart!
It just reminds me so much of the WC Scheme! It has absolutely nothing to do with Ed Burkhart!
Umm....actually it does. Ed Burkhardt was fired from the WC, then he founded RailWorld, which took the former Bangor & Aroostok and turned it into the MM&A. The BAR was totally bankrupt and had horrible service, plus it owed many of the online shippers (what little hadn't switched to trucks because of the service) money. It was a pretty bad situation.
Oh yes, I know, it was sarcasm...actually Ed wasn't fired from WC, I think the company just kicked him out. If Ed hadn't of gotten kicked out, WC would still be around, with scream 645 SD45s...
WCfan wrote:It just reminds me so much of the WC Scheme! It has absolutely nothing to do with Ed Burkhart!
EDIT: Yeah, I forgot about Conrail...one of my favorites... I have a lot of CR equipment too; a C40-8W, a covered hopper, a caboose, two boxcars (one of which is in PC turquise!) and a coal hopper.
Railfan Alex wrote:Yep, that derail was interesting. Someone on railpictures followed it's repair in the shops during the time it was there, something like 4 months.
Yeah... it looked really forlorn, lieing there in the ballast... Dudez... we need to have a big like chat or 5 way call or something some Friday night, just to rant about random train BS... dudezzzzzzzzzzz...
I have a lot of favorite railroads... too many to list...
Claremont & Concord
Fingerlakes Railway
Providence & Worcester
Old Colony & Newport
CONRAIL!!!
City of Prineville
Farm Rail
Mass Central
and a bunch of others...