Noah Hofrichter wrote: CMSTPP wrote:Anyway, came back from the milwaukee show.....I think they have some of the best prices that I have ever seen. I picked up a B30-7 (Burlington Northern) With sound and DCC for $130.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The prices were awesome!! I also picked a U25B, early version with the longer nose. Of course that is Milwaukee road! Then I picked up Nine freight cars! 4 of them were 2 bay hopper, 3 of those were ACF, (Rock island, Great northern, Northern pacific) and the other was a PS2.(Soo line) Then 3, 40 foot box cars, all Milwaukee road. Then the last two cars were open 2 bay ballast hoppers, Milwaukee road again. Pretty nice show! Lots of module layouts to look at. Very fun! Happy railroading James Really? I went to the show on Saturday, and I thought the exact opposite. The only place I found with lots of good deals in the entire show was at Lombard Hobbies. They had some great deals on locomotives and cars there (although I didn't get much because A. I don't really need it and B. I'm saving up for the professional DSLR camera, so the MR budget is down), but other than that almost everything was a standard 20% off. I can get that price from my local hobby shop, and there I also get service to back it up. I was really dissapointed with the show this year, it's just not anywhere near as good as it used to be. There were a lot of cool layouts though, I'll agree with you there. I didn't get a whole lot myself. I picked up a 40' Accurail boxcar, two WEPX (Wisconsin Electric Power) coal cars, and a few decal sets to continue some projects I'm working on. That was about it though. I almost picked up a set of 6 MRL coal hoppers and a CNW Dash 9 at Lombard, but I remembered the camera and so I didn't. Any other year though, I probably would have a new locomotive and set of cars now... Ah well, I'm sure I'll find a lot more stuff at the Madison Show in February (although last year I didn't really there either....) Noah
CMSTPP wrote:Anyway, came back from the milwaukee show.....I think they have some of the best prices that I have ever seen. I picked up a B30-7 (Burlington Northern) With sound and DCC for $130.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The prices were awesome!! I also picked a U25B, early version with the longer nose. Of course that is Milwaukee road! Then I picked up Nine freight cars! 4 of them were 2 bay hopper, 3 of those were ACF, (Rock island, Great northern, Northern pacific) and the other was a PS2.(Soo line) Then 3, 40 foot box cars, all Milwaukee road. Then the last two cars were open 2 bay ballast hoppers, Milwaukee road again. Pretty nice show! Lots of module layouts to look at. Very fun! Happy railroading James
Pretty nice show! Lots of module layouts to look at. Very fun!
Happy railroading
James
Really? I went to the show on Saturday, and I thought the exact opposite. The only place I found with lots of good deals in the entire show was at Lombard Hobbies. They had some great deals on locomotives and cars there (although I didn't get much because A. I don't really need it and B. I'm saving up for the professional DSLR camera, so the MR budget is down), but other than that almost everything was a standard 20% off. I can get that price from my local hobby shop, and there I also get service to back it up. I was really dissapointed with the show this year, it's just not anywhere near as good as it used to be. There were a lot of cool layouts though, I'll agree with you there.
I didn't get a whole lot myself. I picked up a 40' Accurail boxcar, two WEPX (Wisconsin Electric Power) coal cars, and a few decal sets to continue some projects I'm working on. That was about it though. I almost picked up a set of 6 MRL coal hoppers and a CNW Dash 9 at Lombard, but I remembered the camera and so I didn't. Any other year though, I probably would have a new locomotive and set of cars now...
Ah well, I'm sure I'll find a lot more stuff at the Madison Show in February (although last year I didn't really there either....)
Noah
Well, I'm sorry you didn't think so. I like it a lot. Friends to talk to and layouts to look at, and things to buy. But If you're after a good camera it was probably wise to stay away from the model stuff. Otherwise, hope you have a good one in Feburary!
I just got back in from the Wal Mart. I was holdin a spot in line for my mother, so she could get my brothers that darn Nintendo Wii. Well I got $20 out of it.
Lionel collector, stuck in an N scaler's modelling space.
Hey guys. Have any of you been teased at school because you like trains. I don't mean like "hey that kid is freak. because he likes stupid trains.hahahaha" I mean like it never ends. kids I know as they walk past me they go and say 'trains' like it's some kind of joke. and at lunch my friends that I sit with includ trains in sexual jokes. like 'go ride the colby express'.. it's getting really old really fast. I just let go like it's nothing, but it's starting to get to me.
advice would be great.
Colby
Knock a few heads in. That used to be a problem for till I started to insult back. Then they wanted to fight,................alright. Trust me longer that you hold it back, the worse you will whoop there grass.
RR Redneck wrote: I just got back in from the Wal Mart. I was holdin a spot in line for my mother, so she could get my brothers that darn Nintendo Wii. Well I got $20 out of it.
err wallmart the devils store anti union JERKS! i hate wallmart their not just non union i woundent mind that but their anti union the ralroads have a great union and my mom is a union worker so i know about most of the unions did you know that dominos pizza has a union for its dilivery drivers
and model train lover yeah i get teased about it to gets kinda stuped after a while, in middle school i was called choo choo charly by the 6th graders. then i moved to high school but some of the pepole in my classes call me choo choo just ignor it and they will get bord or just aprove of it say yeah so what? im probably more obsesed then all of you guys i come to school every day wearing my engneers cap my teachers even say im obsessed also i tried to start a model railroad club i find that it helps if you find some one with simalar intrests i got a few freinds that like trains theirs power in nummbers if they see you talking about trains to someone elts and you are having an active conversation they tend to lay off
so im off not too much going on here see ya later
Personnally, I find unions the reason that illegals are takin alot of ranchin jobs.
wait wait wait what? in michagan we card you to make shure you are american
RANCHERS FIRIN THE UNION WORKERS TO HIRE THE ILLEGALS!!!!!!!! DUUURRRR!!!!!!! They work for less than the union workers.
happy thanksgiving!
happy thanksgiving everyone hey rr redneck im sorry about the other day i got angry and you happened to be the unlucky person closest to me so..... well happy thanksgiving everyone
p.s. rr redneck the unions dont hire pepole they suport them (helth care and otherwise) so if you got a problem with ilegals take it up with the owner and ask the ilegals for their green card lol. no hard feelings? bye
RR Redneck wrote:I know what unions are, I am sayin that the unions around here are so demanding that union workers are gettin replaced with illegals. Now dont get me wrong, they can be a good thing, but there are such things as too much of a good thing. That is proving to be in Pedro's favor.
I understand you completely Eric. Unions were a good thing - back in the early 1900s when working conditions were poor and wages were far too low for the dangerous work people were doing. From what I've seen now days though Unions are starting to out live their usefulness. Today working conditions, in America anyway, have pretty much improved to the point where unions are kind of becoming pointless. Unions do good some of the time (the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers protesting against one man crews, for example), but most of time they simply are a tool that workers use when they feel like a raise in benifits or something. They've become abused in out society now, and personally I don't care for them. But hey, I guess that's just my two cents.