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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, August 24, 2007 1:22 PM
I make $21 for mowing all our lawns, which takes me about 2 days, including time for the electric mower to rechange. I work for about 2 hours each day. I don't get that much during the holidays, so I get paid a lot for lawn-mowing.
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Posted by Bapou on Saturday, August 25, 2007 7:50 AM
Trainmanty you are very lucky
Go NJT, NJ Transit, New Jersey Transit. Whatever you call it its good. See my pictures and videos here: http://s239.photobucket.com/albums/ff20/Bapouthetrainman/
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, August 25, 2007 10:19 AM
I have been in dept constantly for the last few months though... I just went positive!Wink [;)] All the stuff for walkaround control; plugs, throttle, wire, and I still need to replace most of my freight car fleet with modern cars and finish the layout!Big Smile [:D]
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Posted by Guilford Guy on Monday, August 27, 2007 2:44 AM

Not much train news over on the East cost at 3:43 AM.

I got a cat though! Big Smile [:D] 

 

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, August 27, 2007 9:14 AM
What were you doing at 3:40 in the morning?!?Wink [;)]
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Posted by railroadyoshi on Monday, August 27, 2007 9:46 AM
He's regularly up until 4am. Then he wakes up at 1pm. Just fantastic, eh?
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Posted by Bapou on Monday, August 27, 2007 9:47 AM
Do you guys think I should change the extension for the present to 1994 beacause then I can run my U34CHs?
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, August 27, 2007 10:24 AM
Yes Yoshi, very fantastic!Wink [;)]
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Posted by Bapou on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 9:36 AM
Thought I should bring this back up.
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Posted by Train 284 on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 8:00 PM
Boy am I glad I have a job! It may be minimum wage ($7.50 an hour) but let me tell you it hs paid for a LOT of train stuff the past couple months!  
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Posted by Bapou on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 9:14 AM
Minimum wage here is about $7.25, but it beats the national standard which is about $5.50 I think?
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Posted by B.Erdmann on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 11:12 AM

picked up a new car yesterday

 

a SOO RTR brown & white boxcar. im runnin out of room on my track for cars.

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Posted by Bapou on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 2:58 PM
Thats a nice car who made it?
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Posted by B.Erdmann on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 6:06 PM

Athearn

 

it is now discontinued i believe.

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Posted by loathar on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7:39 PM
Don't mean to interrupt, but WOW! Minimum wage? $7.50? It's only $5.45 here in Tn. You guys are lucky! There's skilled welders here only making $8.50-$9.00/hour.
BTW-You guys have a great thread going here. Lots of great work!Thumbs Up [tup]
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Posted by Guilford Guy on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7:48 PM
I added several telegraph poles along the ROW and a couple telphone poles on Route 20. I just need to get some scale telephone line. Thread didn't work so well on my diorama.

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Posted by MilwaukeeRoad on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 8:40 PM

I know you guys don't care or probably think it's bad, but this my FIRST kit I have ever built.

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Posted by Railfan Alex on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 8:48 PM
 MilwaukeeRoad wrote:

I know you guys don't care or probably think it's bad, but this my FIRST kit I have ever built.

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Posted by MilwaukeeRoad on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 8:54 PM
Thanks you very much.
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Posted by WCfan on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 9:00 PM
AWESOME Alex! So you getting the hang on to the kits? Man that looks alot better than my frist kit!. lol.
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Posted by MilwaukeeRoad on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 9:02 PM
Thank you Jordan.
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Posted by WCfan on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 9:25 PM

Well this was totally unexpected, and was DUMB on my part. I had a derailment, a REAL derailment. Wasn't staged or nothing. But I bet some of you guys won't believe me. Here's the story:

Today I felt like running a manifest on my layout. Just felt like running my trains for the first time in a couple weeks. I set up my cars, and put on my Atlas Master GP40 on the tracks. Now I look over and see my P2K SD45 sitting on the other end of the layout. I said to my self, "I better remember to take that off the tracks, or else I'll forget it's there."

Well I didn't hook my GP40 to my train because I wanted to test to see if it was running ok. Well I turned on the power to my power pack and come to find out that it was on FULL throttle! Not a big problem, unless you got 2 locomotives on the track! Yes, I'm forgetful. Well I see the P2K barreling towards the parked cars. I panic and hit the brake, but it does squat. I watch in horror as the P2K SMASHES into the last car, shoving 2 gons off the track, knocking the locomotive off the track, and making two cars come off the track. Only two cars stayed on. Luckey I tuned off the power other wise my GP40 would have derailed right into my cliff!

I knew it was bound to happen to my P2K. I'm not sure if there's any damage because I want to show my dad.Big Smile [:D] Laugh [(-D]

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Posted by MilwaukeeRoad on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 9:33 PM
I don't believe you. lol just kidding. That sucks, well atleast no real estate was ruined.
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Posted by Guilford Guy on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 9:37 PM

I'm too ashamed to show my first kit. Tongue [:P]

Here are several shots I got today while railfanning just west of Deerfield Mass.

An Eastbound passenger slows to a stop at a restricting signal. Theres a helper in the next block. The stupid telephone poles always seem to get in my shots. Sad [:(] (This is normally a  station scene but my station "dissappeared" and I will be getting a new one soon.)

First the Telephone pole, now the tree, grrr. Tongue [:P] 

At long last the helper slid in from the West. 

And one last shot as the F throttled up and was off! Big Smile [:D] 

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Posted by WCfan on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 9:39 PM

lol, well it's a good thing that it didn't plow into my statition.

Well I got one more thing for you guys. My super detailed Athearn SW1500. Whi orginaly started out as a BB SW1500. So far I added a plow, MUs, a fire craker attenna, a bay window, cab sun shade, and I have painted the roof. On monday the rest of the parts should arrive.

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Posted by Guilford Guy on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 9:41 PM
Sweet, that looks great!

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Posted by WCfan on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 9:45 PM
Thanks! I like your photos, pretty cool!
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Posted by Guilford Guy on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 9:51 PM

Thanks, yea I just got the potatoe train pix up!

YummE double headed steam, and Potatoes!

Ditto

A closeup of the steam.  4-8-2 R1-d # 4117 leading 2-10-2 S-3a 6701. 

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Posted by WCfan on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 9:59 PM
Sweet! I don't know what, but those photos make me want a WC SD45 more! I don't know why. lol.
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Posted by Guilford Guy on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 10:06 PM

Haha, I guess thats a complement Tongue [:P]

Before all the scenery...

I originally planned on putting in a Grade Crossing but that must wait for the enxt module Big Smile [:D] 

Alex

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