Hoople wrote: jeffrey-wimberly wrote: Derrick Moore wrote: jeffrey-wimberly wrote: soumodeler wrote: pcarrell wrote: TrainFreak409 wrote: Y'all had better be careful when your dealing with the turbines...Jawn Henry is rumored to have a foul temper. Ah yes,....the Jawn Henry,.......very possibly the ugliest thing to ever ride a rail, but thats just my opinion. You are not alone there! And now you know the "ditto" tree factor.Just for the heck of it...
jeffrey-wimberly wrote: Derrick Moore wrote: jeffrey-wimberly wrote: soumodeler wrote: pcarrell wrote: TrainFreak409 wrote: Y'all had better be careful when your dealing with the turbines...Jawn Henry is rumored to have a foul temper. Ah yes,....the Jawn Henry,.......very possibly the ugliest thing to ever ride a rail, but thats just my opinion. You are not alone there! And now you know the "ditto" tree factor.
Derrick Moore wrote: jeffrey-wimberly wrote: soumodeler wrote: pcarrell wrote: TrainFreak409 wrote: Y'all had better be careful when your dealing with the turbines...Jawn Henry is rumored to have a foul temper. Ah yes,....the Jawn Henry,.......very possibly the ugliest thing to ever ride a rail, but thats just my opinion. You are not alone there! And now you know the "ditto" tree factor.
jeffrey-wimberly wrote: soumodeler wrote: pcarrell wrote: TrainFreak409 wrote: Y'all had better be careful when your dealing with the turbines...Jawn Henry is rumored to have a foul temper. Ah yes,....the Jawn Henry,.......very possibly the ugliest thing to ever ride a rail, but thats just my opinion. You are not alone there!
soumodeler wrote: pcarrell wrote: TrainFreak409 wrote: Y'all had better be careful when your dealing with the turbines...Jawn Henry is rumored to have a foul temper. Ah yes,....the Jawn Henry,.......very possibly the ugliest thing to ever ride a rail, but thats just my opinion. You are not alone there!
pcarrell wrote: TrainFreak409 wrote: Y'all had better be careful when your dealing with the turbines...Jawn Henry is rumored to have a foul temper. Ah yes,....the Jawn Henry,.......very possibly the ugliest thing to ever ride a rail, but thats just my opinion.
TrainFreak409 wrote: Y'all had better be careful when your dealing with the turbines...Jawn Henry is rumored to have a foul temper.
Y'all had better be careful when your dealing with the turbines...
Jawn Henry is rumored to have a foul temper.
Ah yes,....the Jawn Henry,.......very possibly the ugliest thing to ever ride a rail, but thats just my opinion.
You are not alone there!
And now you know the "ditto" tree factor.
Why not
SilverSpike wrote: Philip, looks like the train show was a success. Nice grabs too, and thanks for showing us what you picked up. Those Southern gons sure are pretty! They came with the coal loads too?
Philip, looks like the train show was a success. Nice grabs too, and thanks for showing us what you picked up. Those Southern gons sure are pretty! They came with the coal loads too?
Yeah! That wasn't too hard to take!
Cox 47 wrote:Jeff thanks for the pictures of the engines you picked at the hobby shop i say you got one heck of a deal are they all good runners? Jerry
Jerry
Jerry: They all run well. The only thing that bugs me is the RS3's are geared 21:1 which makes them quite slow but maybe that won't be a problem on a work train.
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Cox 47 wrote:And Ditto to PC what a haul i like the passenger cars ..Who make them? the old timers look like Bachman maybe?
Actually, they're all Bachmanns. The Harrimans are really old Bmanns. They're lighted by wipers on the axles. I foresee a good cleaning and Kato type conversion in their future.
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For lunch today, I'll have the steak and onions.
Howdy folks, I'll have scrambled eggs, link sausage, toast, and a medium orange juice.
Just thought I'd reply and let y'all know I'm still around. No work has been done on the RR layout yet. I haven't even started on the design of it yet either.
Nice pics, btw, to all that posted any.
see y'all later,
Ah lunch time. I'll have a Monte Cristo, fries and a vanilla shake please Chloe.
Jim- NH didn't get GG-1's until the evil PC empire arrived. The New Haven of course did have an extensive roster of electric passenger and freight motors from the early twentieth century. I haven't any EF or EP 1 - 4's, but I do have an EP-5 Jet and a pair of the E-33's they got from Virginian after bad management let the EF fleet rot to nothing. J.R.
Texasrailnut wrote: Guy's, do you want a way to see railroad tracks from above, then check out 'Google Earth'. You can follow the tracks where you want, and see the configuration of tracks in yards, industries, and maybe those hard to get too places. It is really cool. You can add placements to mark important places, like the name of an industry. You can also zoom in and out, tilt up or down, turn 360 degrees, reset North and tilt orientation. The images are not as visible real close up. It's one of the few downsides of Google Earth I can see. You can also, "fly to" a destination. Just enter a city, or address, and hit the search button, and whoosh! you go flying to the place you entered. It does have a tendency to not be very accurate with marking the addresses you enter. I really like it. So, check it out for yourself. There are several versions, including a free version. http://earth.google.com/
I personally like this site: http://local.live.com/
You can get pics as close as 25 or 30yds away in more populous areas: http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=40.703084~-74.129657&style=o&lvl=2&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=7969906
pcarrell wrote: Texasrailnut wrote: Guy's, do you want a way to see railroad tracks from above, then check out 'Google Earth'. You can follow the tracks where you want, and see the configuration of tracks in yards, industries, and maybe those hard to get too places. It is really cool. You can add placements to mark important places, like the name of an industry. You can also zoom in and out, tilt up or down, turn 360 degrees, reset North and tilt orientation. The images are not as visible real close up. It's one of the few downsides of Google Earth I can see. You can also, "fly to" a destination. Just enter a city, or address, and hit the search button, and whoosh! you go flying to the place you entered. It does have a tendency to not be very accurate with marking the addresses you enter. I really like it. So, check it out for yourself. There are several versions, including a free version. http://earth.google.com/ I personally like this site: http://local.live.com/You can get pics as close as 25 or 30yds away in more populous areas: http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=40.703084~-74.129657&style=o&lvl=2&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=7969906
Hey, you can get better close up images on local.live.com. Didn't know there were any others out there. Thanks PC.
dekruif wrote: Hoople wrote: jeffrey-wimberly wrote: Derrick Moore wrote: jeffrey-wimberly wrote: soumodeler wrote: pcarrell wrote: TrainFreak409 wrote: Y'all had better be careful when your dealing with the turbines...Jawn Henry is rumored to have a foul temper. Ah yes,....the Jawn Henry,.......very possibly the ugliest thing to ever ride a rail, but thats just my opinion. You are not alone there! And now you know the "ditto" tree factor.Just for the heck of it...Why not
I guess I'll join in
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man o war wrote:Great site. I like lt. Phil
Hey, how are you doing man? I got your Email. I've been praying for you.
Afternoon Gang: Well, 25 days left, but who's counting?
I talked to a gentalman who is a retired BNSF track suppervisor today. He was supervising a crew replacing some ties and stringers on one of our bridges on our railroad. He was checking the track gauge which got us to discussing the why of standard gauge. He was told by a fellow he worked for along time ago that he thought they originally thought to have the gauge 5ft. The people designing the track ment to mesure from the out side of the rail to the out side of the rail. then someone pointed out that that would be bad because the flanges were on the inside. So they had to use 56 1/2in. Sounds as good as most of the other things I've heard.
Not much going on today. I can't get to big a project going because I may not have time to finish it. I've been doing little stuff and sorting out the accumulatin of goodies that I was saving in case I need them. The dumpster is getting fuller all the time.
Last night I got down to the basement and did some sorting and putting away of stuff on the layout. I sorted out ore car loads the I had mixed up. Those for the Walthers cars from those for the MDC cars. Now if I could only remember wher I put the rest of them I'd get them all togetherin one place. I'll have to check where I put the Walthers cars. Of course that would be too logical.
well I'm going back out to the shop and get things locked up for going home.
I'll see you all later.
Paul Have you started a Short Timers Calendar and the last day could be the layout in the basement or the 7.5" gauge.
I'll take all the rain we can get. It's better than the white stuff.
Talk to you later
Duke
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Derrick Moore wrote: dekruif wrote: Hoople wrote: jeffrey-wimberly wrote: Derrick Moore wrote: jeffrey-wimberly wrote: soumodeler wrote: pcarrell wrote: TrainFreak409 wrote: Y'all had better be careful when your dealing with the turbines...Jawn Henry is rumored to have a foul temper. Ah yes,....the Jawn Henry,.......very possibly the ugliest thing to ever ride a rail, but thats just my opinion. You are not alone there! And now you know the "ditto" tree factor.Just for the heck of it...Why not I guess I'll join in ( )
Who's next??
I'll have the chili today.
What are we doing on page 2? Well, BUMP.
Mary Ann and I went over to the Ford house and picked up her truck and then went and had dinner. I did some more sorting in the basement and now I'm ready for bed.
I'll see you all tomorrow.
Good Night All
Hi all.
We had a very quiet Christmas and New-Year, I was working back-shift for Christmas and day shift for New-Year plus Gloria has a bad knee that will need to be replaced contributed to very quiet celebrations. Our girls brought us turkey dinners, in fact enough turkey to last us a whole week...The weather is a bit strange this year, warm and wet. We are in the cycle part that occurs every 7 to years or so. Some want to attribute it to climate change but history has shown that similar weather patterns on the east have happened before in those time periods.
I took Gloria to a MD's appointment this am, it was raining with some ice pellets and of course all the morons decided to show off their skills (of lack of). It was good to get home.
Gloria and I hope you all had a very good Christmas and wish you the best year ever.
Happy MRRing.