Forums

[Anonymous]

Coborn35 (i made shure not to call you cornborn as some people have

Life is good in australia.

What do you want to know? Just how are things, or anything special?

I have got a new bike too[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D], because some loser stole the old ones.

Jokes on them, because the old ones were broken[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

Alexander

[coborn35]

QUOTE: Originally posted by alexander13

Coborn35 (i made shure not to call you cornborn as some people have

Life is good in australia.

What do you want to know? Just how are things, or anything special?

I have got a new bike too[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D], because some loser stole the old ones.

Jokes on them, because the old ones were broken[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

Alexander

LMAO haha thanks

Max, take it easy. UP isnt that bad.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Lord Atmo

dont get me started on UP, dude... just...dont. the monster who must feed on cool roads....

I like UP this week

DISCLAMIER: I GIVE NO GUARENTEE THAT I WILL FEEL THE SAME WAY SOON

Alexander

[Lord Atmo]

you know, i used to like CN up until they started pulling this crap. all those SD45s are for sale now. so why havent any of them been bought yet? are there no museums out there with room for one?

as for my off-topic rant in response to a previous post: UP is not that bad? buying out CNW and defacing all their locomotives is "not that bad"? now i have nothing interesting to look at. i dont go by the most historically signifficant railroad when i pick my favorites, i go by which road has the locomotives that are the nicest to look at. and armour yellow bodies with grey roofs is NOT interesting. where's the variety? you need 2 colors painted in a way that they'll balance out and look good. "but Max, Norfolk Southern has even MORE bland colors". yeah, but black happens to be my favorite color. that aside, i have to say i like BNSF the most amongst existing railroads

[coborn35]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Lord Atmo

you know, i used to like CN up until they started pulling this crap. all those SD45s are for sale now. so why havent any of them been bought yet? are there no museums out there with room for one?

as for my off-topic rant in response to a previous post: UP is not that bad? buying out CNW and defacing all their locomotives is "not that bad"? now i have nothing interesting to look at. i dont go by the most historically signifficant railroad when i pick my favorites, i go by which road has the locomotives that are the nicest to look at. and armour yellow bodies with grey roofs is NOT interesting. where's the variety? you need 2 colors painted in a way that they'll balance out and look good. "but Max, Norfolk Southern has even MORE bland colors". yeah, but black happens to be my favorite color. that aside, i have to say i like BNSF the most amongst existing railroads

So if you bought out UP and changed the locomotives to CNW, that wouldnt be defacing? Its called YOUR company. CNW wasnt UP, so UP changed it to be UP.

[Lord Atmo]

right right. just like CP does to their SOO units? or like what CN does to the non-SD45 WC units? if i bought out UP, i'd leave the UP units as is, but i'd restore the ex CNW ones. then i'd take a bunch of SD45s and paint them in WC colors and number them the same numbers as those that CN scrapped.

[coborn35]

CN doesnt repaint them because they are going to SELL/SCRAP THEM!! Waste of paint. Look at the ex DMIR tunnel motors. 4+ are already wearing CN paint and CN modifications.

And I know its not the same, but CN does have two SD45's. They are DMIR SD45-2's

[Anonymous]

No. UP owns tem now. UP can do any of the following in them

Repaint them
Burn them
Scrap them
Sell them
Modifiy them
And so on so forth

CN Bought WC. This meand that they can
Burn the SD45'S
Repaint the SD45'S
Sell the SD45'S
Keep the SD45'S
Dispose of the SD45'S

IT IS THAT SIMPLE
THEY EXIST TO MOVE GOODS, NOT TO PLEASE YOU
Alexander

[Lord Atmo]

they exist to move goods, not to take over other railroads

[coborn35]

But in order to stay competiative, they need to take over other railroads.

[Lord Atmo]

nowhere does it imply that they must have ugly paint schemes

[Anonymous]

You only think they are ugly.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Lord Atmo

they exist to move goods, not to take over other railroads

But they are a buisness, and as coborn35 says, they have to stay competitive

Oh yeah, isnt it technically GTW that owns the locos?

Alexander

[Lord Atmo]

we got pretty off-topic here. there's a topic in the trans magazine forums to vent our UP hatred already. what's frustrating is that nobody seems to be buying the SD45s. they'll be destroyed for sure.

[coborn35]

You relaize you CANT "buy" them right? They arent for sale "sale". You put in a bid, and if that is the highest on that particular unit at a certain time, you get the locomotive.