Loco... LoL, well, I am!!!
With a slight obsessive - compulsive disorder tossed in for good measure.
(but it's all an act.... that way no one thinks twice when I get lost going to three different hobby shops in two different states, spend $100's of bucks, and then lock myself in the basment all week long - BWaahahahaaaaa)
'tis easy!!!
TA462 wrote:Nice!!! Do you feel like Schumaker sometimes when your out driving her? I had the chance to drive a 308 GTS once, its something I will never forget.
Not realy we did track the car once just to see what it coud due but that was realy not a good idea. I raced many years ago and know that you need the safety equipment to survive. The car does have a sort of roll cage as part of the frame so I pused it to 165 and had plentry to go. That was at Road Atlanta.
If I want a nice ride then we use this:
It is a 1978 Shadow II which we may be selling, I have 16 cars so need to get a few off the books.
Krysti, the wife, Bought this one:
Picture was taken as she was paying the person for the car.
Well, back to the trains. If you are car folks visit us
www.leatherique.com
TA462 wrote:George, nice Vette. Of all the C3 Vettes I prefer the 80-82 body, it just looks sexy. My wife and I are looking for a 78 Indy Pace Car, its something she has wanted for a long time. Brandon, post some pics of the 69.
Our other TOY:
And you think trains get expensive!!!
THe BOSS bought herself a 2003 50th Anniv. Vette. Flop Top Automatic.
Got to run!!
claycts wrote: Nice American Mussel. Had A T/A LONG time ago get this now for my Aerican car fix:I am mostley Exotics. I need to get away from the trains and get my cars done, YEA RIGHT!!Again, nice cars!!!!
Nice American Mussel. Had A T/A LONG time ago get this now for my Aerican car fix:
I am mostley Exotics. I need to get away from the trains and get my cars done, YEA RIGHT!!
Again, nice cars!!!!
That there is a right-purty 'Vette! (Redneck for "wow I think your corvette looks nice" lol)
You guys have classics, but I have "New Muscle" i guess you call it... However, my mom's first car was a 1969 Chevy Camaro with a 350. "LeMans Blue" with a black vinyl top. Yep, a BASE model with a 350! I guess the origional owner who bought it in Princeton, KY wanted a "sleeper" or something...
The best part is, she held on to it and it's sitting in our driveway right now! I'll have to show yall a picture sometime.
Thanks for the compliments!
-Brandon, playing Jimi Hendrix, CCR, Led Zeppelin, Rush and Aerosmith in my Camaro when all the other high school kids are listening to "five cent" or whatever in their rice burners...
1. I'm a Milwaukee Road Fan
2. After seeing pictures, drawings and models of the Hiawatha it became my favorite Passanger train
MilwHiawatha
TA462 wrote: myred02 wrote: Well, mine is a little different. I'm named after my car! You see, I have a red 2002 Chevrolet Camaro. It's mine, it's red, and it's "02" for short. I got my first screename on a car website, and I figured I'd keep it for other sites.Here's a picture.Pretty good for a 17 year old, eh? And hey, if you want to race me sometime, meet me on the Hopkinsville dragstrip, *ahem* I mean "Ft. Campbell Boulevard" here in Kentucky. -Ricola (otherwise known as Brandon, my inner circle just calls me that sometimes cause I look Sweedish with my blonde hair lol)Hey me too. Trans Am's back in the day use to have T/A 6.6 on their hood scoop. I put a 462 cubic inch motor into mine and had decals made up that now say T/A 462. Here is mine, I'll race you but I only race for money and I very seldom lose. Not bad for a 42 year old eh?
myred02 wrote: Well, mine is a little different. I'm named after my car! You see, I have a red 2002 Chevrolet Camaro. It's mine, it's red, and it's "02" for short. I got my first screename on a car website, and I figured I'd keep it for other sites.Here's a picture.Pretty good for a 17 year old, eh? And hey, if you want to race me sometime, meet me on the Hopkinsville dragstrip, *ahem* I mean "Ft. Campbell Boulevard" here in Kentucky. -Ricola (otherwise known as Brandon, my inner circle just calls me that sometimes cause I look Sweedish with my blonde hair lol)
Well, mine is a little different. I'm named after my car! You see, I have a red 2002 Chevrolet Camaro. It's mine, it's red, and it's "02" for short. I got my first screename on a car website, and I figured I'd keep it for other sites.
Here's a picture.
Pretty good for a 17 year old, eh? And hey, if you want to race me sometime, meet me on the Hopkinsville dragstrip, *ahem* I mean "Ft. Campbell Boulevard" here in Kentucky.
-Ricola (otherwise known as Brandon, my inner circle just calls me that sometimes cause I look Sweedish with my blonde hair lol)
Hey me too. Trans Am's back in the day use to have T/A 6.6 on their hood scoop. I put a 462 cubic inch motor into mine and had decals made up that now say T/A 462. Here is mine, I'll race you but I only race for money and I very seldom lose. Not bad for a 42 year old eh?
Wow! Nice car! Another railfan buddy of mine got a red '78 Firebird 440 Big Block (not a T/A) over the summer, and he almost whipped me good with it. Luckily, My LS1-powered Camaro had quite a bit more giddy-up-go at the start and I got ahead early. By the time we got to the next stoplight (finishline for you non-racers out there) about a 1/2 mile down the road he had come from about 6 car-lengths back to a mere 1 1/2.
That being said, I don't want to race you because I think two F-bodies racing against each other is kinda wrong. Heck, I'll just come out with it. You would probably definately mop the asphalt with me!
** On another note, I do not condone nor encourage street racing of any variety.
Do as I say, not as I do, children...
-Brandon, eating rice burners alive every Friday and Saturday night in Hopkinsville, KY
woodlandtoots wrote: Our "dream" home's back yard is like a "woodland garden". I love steam locomotives which "toot" so combining "woodland and toot" you get "Woodlandtoots".
Our "dream" home's back yard is like a "woodland garden". I love steam locomotives which "toot" so combining "woodland and toot" you get "Woodlandtoots".
And here all along I thought you were a whistle punk.
Before you take offense, be aware that "Whistle Punk" was the job title of the highly skilled logger who coordinated the operation of a high line crew by blowing the little steam whistle on the donkey engine. If he didn't get it right, or if someone else wasn't paying attention, serious bodily injury or death could result.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Modeling B&O- Chessie Bob K. www.ssmrc.org
Modeling CPRail.
Switch it around and hence: CPRailModeler (some say CPRail for short and I'm fine with that)
CPRailmodeler
I model N scale.
My name is Neil.
Neil
For nearly forty years I've been drawn to the trackage from Pueblo, Co to Minturn. Twice in N and 4 times in HO, I attempted to recreate the days of heavy traffic in that corridor. The last endeavor was to be a multi-level run from Pueblo connections up a nearly constant grade to a balloon staging at Tennessee Pass. When I stumbled upon the logo of truckline CCX, finally a name for the corporation(s) was settled upon. The freight handling entity is the Canon City Express, the sightseeing equipment is managed by Canon City Experience, and the river float trip group that leases a Budd RDC and a gondola full of rafts is the Canon City Expedition...................thus my handle.
recent developments will probably change the CCX to mean "Chopped, Consolidated & Expunged"
Simply stated Great Uncle Bruce. My neice started addressing emails to GUB when she had her first little one. For the longest time I did not catch on and then when I did I liked it. Now I use here.
GUB
I was born Geoffrey Galaxy Louis Andrew Thorvald Kesser. (remember Star Jones, Solie Moon Frye, Daisy Rogers, and its Lou-ie not Lou-is, and its Keys-sir) I could not pronounce "s" right while a child so it came out "keeper".
Not really. When I first got on AOL I was on my brother's computer. I didn't have one then. I adopted a pet name-number combo popular then. I also had screen names on two friends computers, with one digit changed. Anyone who knew me could tell whose house I was at by the name.
When I got my own computer I wanted a new name. Any name I tried that meant something to me was taken. I had been at it awhile, trying new names, when I looked at my watch. AH! ‘timekeeper"! TAKEN . SO I looked at the speakers for the computer. They said "Galaxy" on them. Tried it. TAKEN
AH!!!! OH!!!! But combine the two....galaxytimekeeper was NOT taken and a new moniker was born. It also was easy to understand and for anyone to spell (unless they do not know how to spell "galaxy". BINGO!!!!!!!!
I have been asked if I really do keep the time for the galaxy. I, indeed, always respond ‘of course I do'.
-g
galaxy
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
I was named after my dad, Albert Theodore Marshall. ever since I was a kid, my mom and dad called me "Teddy"; It stuck. When I joined this group, the thought of taking on an alias in the form of a username made me feel as if I was hiding my true identity. I'm proud of my name and I am happy to share who I really am with everyone.
I use "Ted Marshall" as my username in several other places online also, such as UltimateBet.net and PartyPoker.net. In Yahoogroups where I'm a member of the Digitrax and FEC forums, I'm teddymarshall2003 and on ebay I'm therealtedmarshall. Apparently there's another Ted Marshall somewhere in California who beat me to it.
Ted M.
got trains?™
See my photos at: http://tedmarshall.rrpicturearchives.net/
Well...
The user name was explained some time ago. But now, I see, we are looking at nicknames too and that is a different story all together!
At one point, I was "Redfox"; young, blond hair, red bread and foxy as a fox!
I am now "Greyfox"; old, grayish blond hair, gray bread and foxy as a fox!
Remember....You are the one who asked!
No big secret--my first name is Tom and my last name is White. Not the most adventurous tag on a forum, but at least I can remember it, LOL!
Actually, I've never had a nickname until last year, and it's become "Doc" from my choir guys at Jesuit High School because I 'fix' things with their singing. One of the priests thought it up, when he came in and listened to me working with the guys and said, "Listen to the Doc, gentlemen, he's 'fixing' you." Now, if I only had a real Doctorate to go with the nickname, LOL!
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
My username was inspired by my mom! It's not very original (first initial, last name), but my ideas are.
As for my nickname, it's RocketMan, inspired by my previous "moth-balled" hobby of high-power rocketry.
I did the who's on first routine in High School, 1974, Abbott and Costello, but used their Naughty Ninties movie names, Sebastion Dinwitty (Costello) and Dextur Broadhurst (Abbott). I found PLATO, an interterminal system in 1977 and it had TALKOMATIC. Looking for a nick I used "dinwitty" honoring A&C. I stick with that nick everywhere. Internet came, so did I. History.
As the only narrow gauger in an all HO modular group, I got a lot of questions on why some of my tracks were so close together and small. Throw in a new truck (1:1 scale) and the desire for some customized plates . . . HOHOn3 came to be in a way to destinguish myself as the narrow gauger in the club.
And those plates were hard to get . . . It took several appeals with the State DMV licensing Board to get them approved. Seems like they didn't like the reference to "HO" and they didn't understand the meaing behind "HOn3". I finally got the plates when I explained to them that I'm a big white guy, driving a big white truck, who plays with trains, and there is nothing that could connect me or my truck to that kind of conclusion. Although I must say, in several distance communities, the reactions to those plates have been great.
HOHOn3
Modeling the DK & Pacific Mountain Railway in HO and HOn3