Mine is the CNW 1995 heritage unit.I grew up in Fox River Grove and watched the CNW commuter and frieght trains. Ever since then I have always liked the yellow and green!!!
Mine is well er... A LION! I thought that was fairly clear.
Here is another picture of the LION. Can you tell me what he is playing with?
Here is I in the cab of an R9 which I ran on the tracks of the Branford Trolley Museum.
And here is the LION surfing a subway train, I use it elsewhere as an avatar:
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Mine is the C&NW herald which I saw daily growing up in Wheaton, along with the CA&E and on the north edge of town, the CGW.
C&NW, CA&E, MILW, CGW and IC fan
View from a mudchicken's (railroad surveyor's) perspective. In this case:
ATSF BR 650.12 (BNSF BR 88.6) over Fountain Creek, on the Joint Line in this case, with a southbound coal load. (somebody has to help take care of the physical infrastructure that the shiny things run on!)
PDN: It still amazes me what certain railroad supervisors and engineers think those big pieces of track machinery do and are capable of. They probably are also the ones that take GPS/GIS systems a little too literally while driving as well.
I dont know how to make an avatar.
rustycoupler I dont know how to make an avatar.
Favourite/appropriate digital image of your choice, downsize using photo manipulation software to about 50 Kb, enter your profile and settings on this site (click on your user name anywhere it appears), and find where you can import an avatar. Follow the instructions, and don't forget to save at the bottom of that profile page before you click out of it. Within a minute at most, you can refresh and you'll see your new avatar showing at the masthead of each of your posts and beside your user-name at right in the column next to this post.
Crandell
Interesting.....zugmann- Why no original art?Ed B- I'd be afraid to post a picture of my face. Who wants to risk scaring people?Paul- I always figured it was an extenda-boom forkliftMookie- That's what I'd get, of I let my wife do an avatar for me. We have 3 catsselector- I always assumed that was a photo of a real trainBrian, Carl & FordV10- CNW 1995 in stereo!BaltACD- I'm a Walter Mitty about racing cars. As close as I'll ever get is in the summers, when I race in a go-cart league with a group of guys young enough to be my kids. My best finish has been 7th in an A feature. That tells you how half-fast I am.Sam- In our town, we have cement trucks painted like American flags. That's kind of what I thought yours was for the longest time.Chris- Are too! Your avatar photo has real movement to it. It makes me think of the publicity shots of Daniel Day Lewis in The Last of the Mohicans, running toward the camera at force.BroadwayLions- Do I denote something of an obsession?
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
Mine is the inside of the cab of Wanamaker & Kempton 0-6-0.
Mine is tractor with hopper of bone meal. Didn't think I was moving, came across in front of me. Don't know why he thought i was blowing for the crossing if I wasn't moving. Made a smelly mess.
BaltACD My son is fast, I am only half fast.
My son is fast, I am only half fast.
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Mine is a NS helper set descending Horse Shoe Curve that I took on one of my wife an I's picnic trips there.
BroadwayLion Mine is well er... A LION! I thought that was fairly clear. Here is another picture of the LION. Can you tell me what he is playing with? Here is I in the cab of an R9 which I ran on the tracks of the Branford Trolley Museum. And here is the LION surfing a subway train, I use it elsewhere as an avatar:
Johnny
My avatar is a locomotive that belonged to my great-grandfather. Back when I was about 12 years old or so in the early 1950's, my grandmother and one of my great-aunts used to tell me about Valentine Sugar Plantation and refinery which their father built and ran along Bayou Lafourche in southern Louisiana. They told me that he had built a railroad to transport the cane from the fields to the refinery. About 30 years later someone in the family came across some old very much faded photographs of the plantation. Working with copies of copies, I scanned them and greatly increased the contrast. I love this one.
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"A stranger's just a friend you ain't met yet." --- Dave Gardner
Mine is a screenshot from ATCS Monitor of CN's Neenah Sub at the Oshkosh Bridge, pinned shut for the winter. Hence 'Wintermode'. I just thought it was neat.
Dan
Murphy Sidingzugmann- Why no original art?
Haven't been doing much art lately. Focusing more on the model RR side of my hobby for now.
Plus I've gotten in the habit of putting up whatever show I'm watching at the time. Though I may keep Rigby for a while - he's awesome.
It's been fun. But it isn't much fun anymore. Signing off for now.
The opinions expressed here represent my own and not those of my employer, any other railroad, company, or person.t fun any
.....Just me enjoying my patio...with my "watch dog"...
Quentin
Deggesty Nice red beard you have. I see that it is beginning to fade, sad to say, as mine did about twenty-five years ago, though. You'll wonder where the color went, when you keep on aging and need Fix O Dent. (with apologies to the ancient jingle, "You'll wonder where the yellow went, when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent") My wife's version was, "You'll wonder where the wiggle went, when you fix your teeth with Fix O Dent."
Nice red beard you have. I see that it is beginning to fade, sad to say, as mine did about twenty-five years ago, though. You'll wonder where the color went, when you keep on aging and need Fix O Dent. (with apologies to the ancient jingle, "You'll wonder where the yellow went, when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent") My wife's version was, "You'll wonder where the wiggle went, when you fix your teeth with Fix O Dent."
Eh, That picture was taken about 20 years ago. Now the beard is a distinguished white beard, and I just put my new Medicare card in my wallet yesterday!
ROAR
zugmann Murphy Sidingzugmann- Why no original art? Haven't been doing much art lately. Focusing more on the model RR side of my hobby for now. Plus I've gotten in the habit of putting up whatever show I'm watching at the time. Though I may keep Rigby for a while - he's awesome.
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!
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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.
Have fun with your trains
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
Me on the SP 1941 as a young brakeman in 1965
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!
I'm still lost at honey boo boo and mr squiggley?
Zug,
Trust me, sometimes lost is good!
Murphy..SWMBO, aka She Who Must Be Obeyed, in this case, Aimee, my wife.
Murphy - Aimee has good taste! In person, he is a true man's man. Deliberate, patient and quiet.
And kind to dumb animals.....^~^
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 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
Me and a GE C-30-7 with gutted electrical cabinets at Derby Maine a few years back.
Randy
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!
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