What is your avatar?

[blownout cylinder]

When I think back to when I took photo from the Finkle Street Footbridge over the CN lines back in the early 1960's and think of ll the dang scanning I'm having to do...OY...

My avatar? ....the little Spring, our cat..

[The Butler]

CSSHEGEWISCH

The Butler

My avatar is a picture I took in 1985 of Nickle Plate 765.  It was pulling a fan trip on the C&NW from Des Plaines, Illinois, to Janesville, Wisconsin.  It is not the greatest picture.  It was taken with my old Kodak Instamatic using a 126 cartridge.

We all have to start somewhere.  I look back at my earliest pictures from 1969 and 1970 and sometimes wish that I could re-shoot them.  But I never regretted taking those shots.

Paul, I don't regret the photo.    Thirty years later, I am glad I had the camera and used it.  I enjoy those pictures today more than I did when I took them.  I just wish I had brought a camera with me when I saw Milwaukee 261 in Rosemont, Illlinos, back in the 1990s.

[The Butler]

Semper Vaporo

@The Butler... "not the greatest picture" ??? Maybe not... but Awfully close! 

 

Some people call stuff like that "Choo-Choo Porn"!

Semper, thank you, I was referring to the quality of the photograph (it is too grainy) not the subject.  

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

The Butler

My avatar is a picture I took in 1985 of Nickle Plate 765.  It was pulling a fan trip on the C&NW from Des Plaines, Illinois, to Janesville, Wisconsin.  It is not the greatest picture.  It was taken with my old Kodak Instamatic using a 126 cartridge.

We all have to start somewhere.  I look back at my earliest pictures from 1969 and 1970 and sometimes wish that I could re-shoot them.  But I never regretted taking those shots.

[BroadwayLion]

Semper Vaporo

(At least they don't eat much!).

THAT may be, but I betcha their dry cleaning bill is a sight to see!

[Modelcar]

What a collection....!!  All beautiful....I know they are not cheap in cost...

 

[Semper Vaporo]

@The Butler... "not the greatest picture" ??? Maybe not... but Awfully close! 

 

Some people call stuff like that "Choo-Choo Porn"!

[The Butler]

My avatar is a picture I took in 1985 of Nickle Plate 765.  It was pulling a fan trip on the C&NW from Des Plaines, Illinois, to Janesville, Wisconsin.  It is not the greatest picture.  It was taken with my old Kodak Instamatic using a 126 cartridge.

[Semper Vaporo]

Mookie

She's beatiful - is she modern?  Love her outfit!  And the clock ain't bad either!

Modelcar

That doll is beautiful.....My wife saw one {years ago}, at a retail show at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville and just had to have one....

And {I like clocks}, and have some antiques....the pictured clock is really nice, unique, and luxurious....Beautiful.

 

The clock is actually a "cheap" knockoff of the nicer ones.  Runs off of a single "C" battery.  It used to strike the hour but the switches inside have worn out.  It also sounds very strange if your head is at just the wrong angle... something about the way it digitally creates the chime sound and the distance between the listener's ears causing interference as the sounds combine in the mind.

 

 

For me, one doll was not enough!  Thus, the "Porcelain Menagerie" (AKA: the "Pack of Porcelain Pulchritude" or "Bevy of Beauteous Broads") crowding me out of my living room.

 

Here is a photo of all of the larger dolls (about 1/2 the total dolls in the room):

 

 

(At least they don't eat much!).

 

[Modelcar]

.....The drawings by Rodney Matthews are certainly "different", can't quite handle that art....

[Modelcar]

That doll is beautiful.....My wife saw one {years ago}, at a retail show at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville and just had to have one....

And {I like clocks}, and have some antiques....the pictured clock is really nice, unique, and luxurious....Beautiful.

[Mookie]

She's beatiful - is she modern?  Love her outfit!  And the clock ain't bad either!

[Semper Vaporo]

eagle1030

Semper Vaporo

That drawing is by Rodney Matthews... see:

 http://www.rodneymatthews.com/main.htm

 I want someone to make one in Live Steam for G-Gauge track.

Someone's got their steampunk on.

When it comes to steampunk... I require it to be REAL Live Steam, do something at least somewhat functional (no executive's busyboxes) and include a pretty girl in Victorian dress.

 

{EDIT: sorry, photos were lost by the hosting site.)

Okay, she ain't steam powered but she does raise my blood pressure.

[eagle1030]

Semper Vaporo

That drawing is by Rodney Matthews... see:

 

http://www.rodneymatthews.com/main.htm

 

I want someone to make one in Live Steam for G-Gauge track.

Someone's got their steampunk on.

[John WR]

The drawing looks more like an animal than a machine to me.  

[Semper Vaporo]

tree68

Semper Vaporo

I want someone to make one in Live Steam for G-Gauge track.

Ten drivers, not articulated - you'd need real 5 degree curves to run it....  And a big back yard.

 

I count 9 drivers, but what's a driver amongst friends,  it would still tend to straighten the rails of any curve.

 

My RR used to have the motto, 'The Straight line Short line" and that could be resurected if needs be, but it would require a humongous turntable at each end!  Each would probably overhang on my neighbors' property!  

 

The real problem would be the bridge overstructure, overhead signal bridges, overpasses... and that infernal TUNNEL would need to be daylighted in a big way!  Might require a few small thermonuclear devices... Or just run that engine through it REEEEEAL FAST! 

 

[tree68]

Semper Vaporo

I want someone to make one in Live Steam for G-Gauge track.

Ten drivers, not articulated - you'd need real 5 degree curves to run it....  And a big back yard.

[Semper Vaporo]

That drawing is by Rodney Matthews... see:

 

http://www.rodneymatthews.com/main.htm

 

I want someone to make one in Live Steam for G-Gauge track.

[Mookie]

Oh Vic!  You still have it! 

I am not sure what I like about it, but it is a little scary, waaay too big, and totally fascinating.  Maybe it has shades of art deco -

Ha!

[Randy Stahl]

Me and a GE C-30-7 with gutted electrical cabinets at Derby Maine a few years back.

Randy

[vsmith]

Mookie

Vic - your best one was still the album cover from years ago!  I think I still have a photo of it somewhere here in the house.

Mook

[ChuckCobleigh]

zugmann

I'm still lost at honey boo boo and mr squiggley?

Would that be Fungo Squiggly, the ferret that lives next to Rob Wilco's apartment in "Get Fuzzy" by any chance?  (Also the sworn enemy of Bucky Katt.)

[Mookie]

Murphy - Aimee has good taste!  In person, he is a true man's man.  Deliberate, patient and quiet. 

And kind to dumb animals.....^~^

[edblysard]

Zug,

Trust me, sometimes lost is good!

Murphy..SWMBO, aka She Who Must Be Obeyed, in this case, Aimee, my wife.

[zugmann]

I'm still lost at honey boo boo and mr squiggley?

[Murphy Siding]

edblysard

Please Zug, listen to Murphy…no Honey Boo Boo…please…

Mister Squiggly maybe, but no boo boo.

Murphy,

SWMBO took the photo, thinks all that white and grey looks good, and insisted I use it, so….

And Mookie’s is right on target!

  SWMBO?

[SLOCONDR]

Me on the SP 1941 as a young brakeman in 1965

[Mookie]

Vic - your best one was still the album cover from years ago!  I think I still have a photo of it somewhere here in the house.

Mook

[vsmith]

Mine is an early builders print of a geared Class A Climax locomotive, this is a larger image from the Geared Steam Locomotive Works website:

http://gearedsteam.com/climax/climax.htm

Its an engine type I have been fascinated with for years, for one thing it had a 2 speed transmission, slow, and slower.