What is your avatar?

[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.

[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]

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! 

 

[John WR]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Modelcar]

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

[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!).

 

[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]

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

 

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

[Modelcar]

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

 

[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!

[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.

[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.  

[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.

[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..