zgardner18 dbduck Hey its your layout...do as you please Oh, but the guilt! I've got a big Letter on my chest.
dbduck Hey its your layout...do as you please
Hey its your layout...do as you please
Oh, but the guilt! I've got a big Letter on my chest.
Would that be a Scarlet "A" that stands for "Athearn"?
Oh, well. As long as yr not whipping yrself in yr closet & preaching about how bad you are for it!
I'm sure you'll make Montandiego the #1 modelrailfan destination.
Cheers!--Mark(who currently doesn't have two of the same anything: engine, car or line)
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Silicon Valley Free-moN
No problem, I sometimes run my brass Little Joe on my logging / mining layout, looks peculiar going past some log buggies, Shays and Heislers. Doesn't really like the 18" curves for some reason
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."-Albert Einstein
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Don't feel bad. I moved an entire coal-originating flatlands branch line more than a thousand kilometers, changed its ownership (from JNR to Tomikawa Tani Tetsudo) and plopped it into a ruggedly mountainous area which, as far as I know, never had a workable coal seam. Then I equipped it with locomotives and hopper cars (including hopper-brakes) that would cause a Japanese prototype purist to run screaming into the night.
The nice thing about protolancing (freelancing around a prototype concept) is that you can tell itinerant rivet counters that you are the only one who knows how many rivets were used to assemble those cars of no known parentage. You should. You drove them all yourself.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - JNR to prototype, TTT freelanced)
Well my New York Central Hudson doesn't really fit into a Minnesota iron ore railroad layout, but whadda ya gonna do??
--Zak Gardner
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You guys all know that I desire to model Montana Rail Link mixed with BNSF and I hope to create a nice layout of the Mullan Pass in Montana one day. BUT I have collected a few of Athearn's Bombardier Passenger cars that are Coaster. I also have an F59PHI and a F40PH in Coaster. I grew up around these commuter trains and I will forever keep them around. And when the time comes, I'm sure that I will be running them on my layout here and there. But San Diego trains don't run in Montana.
So who else has this problem like I do? Something that doesn't match your layout theme or era, but you just love having it to play with or look at.