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What do Model Rail roaders look like PART TWO.

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Posted by sfcouple on Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:44 AM

At Cass, WV last October....actually got to ride in the cab of this Shay.

Wayne 

 

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Posted by BlueHillsCPR on Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:36 AM
 loathar wrote:

Had to dig deep for these.

Back in the mullet days!Big Smile [:D]

I like the truck!  Is that yours?  While I am not a car guy I AM a truck guy!  64-66 Chev or GMC trucks to be exact.

Trucks and trains...need I say more! Big Smile [:D]

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Posted by tattooguy67 on Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:15 AM
ok lets try that again shall we!.
Is it time to run the tiny trains yet george?! is it huh huh is it?!
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Posted by tattooguy67 on Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:11 AM
and one more here, me and my little friend!.
Is it time to run the tiny trains yet george?! is it huh huh is it?!
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Posted by leighant on Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:09 AM

Disclaimer: this is what this model railroader USED to look like.  The only train related photo of myself I can find that justifies criteria to be hosted on railimages is 22 years old.  Taken in 1986, as I was on the Texas Mexican Railroad in Laredo, Texas, pretending to board the loco of the Tex-Mex Express . 

What the train and 1880-something station looked like.

Train was discontinued and I have gotten older.  But at least, station is still there, last I hear.

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Posted by tattooguy67 on Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:05 AM
Is it time to run the tiny trains yet george?! is it huh huh is it?!
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Posted by pcarrell on Thursday, April 10, 2008 9:07 AM
CudaKen, count one more motorhead!
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Posted by pike-62 on Thursday, April 10, 2008 9:05 AM

I am the big guy in the middle.

 

cudaken...

motor head here too, 68 GTO ragtop.

 

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Posted by cudaken on Thursday, April 10, 2008 8:55 AM

 I am the one with the big smile.

 

 Here I am cleaned up just a tad. My daughter is on my left.

 

 Seems to be more than one car person on the site.

 

                           Cuda Ken

               

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Posted by pcarrell on Thursday, April 10, 2008 8:16 AM

 R. T. POTEET wrote:

They look as ugly in PART TWO as they did in PART ONE!!!!!

Nice RT.  Whistling [:-^]

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Posted by Arjay1969 on Thursday, April 10, 2008 8:09 AM

Once more unto the breach? Smile [:)]

 

Okay, here I am in the cab of FP45 #92 at the Illinois Railway Museum.

 

And here I am celebrating my first anniversary (over a year ago!) with my lovely wife/train addiction enabler. Big Smile [:D]

 

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Posted by cwclark on Thursday, April 10, 2008 8:04 AM

One more time, donned in a big SP hat and a pinch of Skoal between my cheek and gum...I guess you could say I'm a poster child for an East Texas Redneck....(notice the Navy tatoo on my right arm...how it got there i haven't a clue)   ....chuck

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Posted by rogerhensley on Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:45 AM

Here I am. twice. 

 

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Posted by stebbycentral on Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:44 AM

My daughter and myself at the RR Museum in Boone, IA.  From several years back.  You'll have to use your imagination, the wife got a little far away trying to get the whole locomotive in the shot.  Here's a closer shot from the same trip...

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Posted by wm3798 on Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:10 AM

Here I am bagging another "No Trespassing Moment" on the old WM bridge in York, PA.  Photo by Ed Kapuscinski.

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Posted by OzarkBelt on Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:07 AM

I'm on the Right!!Whistling [:-^]Wink [;)]

Actually, I wish I could have armor like that. Oh well.

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Posted by AltoonaRailroader on Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:00 AM

DING! DING!    ROUND Two!

This is me and my Grace at the Pittsburgh Train Expo January a year ago. She loves daddy's trains and she's only 2.5. Wink [;)]

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Posted by Fergmiester on Thursday, April 10, 2008 6:48 AM

Unfortunately I couldn't find the key to start it!

 

Just me passing through Gorham this past January

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Posted by tomkat-13 on Thursday, April 10, 2008 3:27 AM

I stopped in Nashville to see the "King" on the way to Florida last summer!




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Posted by loathar on Thursday, April 10, 2008 2:13 AM
I wish! My old bosses. Injected alcohol small block. Around 180mph in the 7's. He was building it to run on Nitro and then the NHRA banned that class. I used to help him a lot on it. Never got to drive it.Sad [:(]
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Posted by rolleiman on Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:38 AM
 loathar wrote:

Had to dig deep for these.

Back in the mullet days!Big Smile [:D]

Is that yours?? How fast?? 

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Posted by loathar on Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:16 AM

Had to dig deep for these.

Back in the mullet days!Big Smile [:D]

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Posted by Paul3 on Thursday, April 10, 2008 12:53 AM



'Tis I, at Steamtown, Scranton, PA, July 2006.

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Posted by R. T. POTEET on Thursday, April 10, 2008 12:19 AM

They look as ugly in PART TWO as they did in PART ONE!!!!!

From the far, far reaches of the wild, wild west I am: rtpoteet

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Posted by tstage on Wednesday, April 9, 2008 11:16 PM

Sorry for the temporary lock, everyone.  I needed to put out a fire this evening on the forum and had to create a "fireline".  This thread was that fireline.  Things are under control now.  Thanks for being patient.

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, April 9, 2008 10:18 PM

Here's one of my wife and I just after finishing the Virginia Beach Half-Marathon

 

 

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Posted by SteamFreak on Wednesday, April 9, 2008 9:57 PM

This me from last October. In case your confused, I'm the gorgeous blonde on the left. Big Smile [:D]

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Posted by robengland on Wednesday, April 9, 2008 9:07 PM

there are five 1:1 scale steam museums within fifty miles of here so where else would the photo be set...

(that's a New Zealand Railways class J 3'6" gauge 4-8-2 named Gloria. I've driven her a whole hundred yards!)

and here's son Jack (and friend) on an even bigger KA class 4-8-4

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Posted by pcarrell on Wednesday, April 9, 2008 8:47 PM

My family on vacation in Maine a couple summers ago.

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Posted by CSX_road_slug on Wednesday, April 9, 2008 8:40 PM

OK let's try this again...

First, an April 2003 pic of me in my native environment, the top platform of a [now-defunct] McClouth Steel Co. blast furnace in Trenton, MI:



...and one side of my layout:

 

-Ken in Maryland  (B&O modeler, former CSX modeler)

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