chad thomas wrote:Seriously, what are you guys talking about?
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Chad, did you take your avatar picture , when was that ?
doghouse wrote:I protest this thread. Chad Thomas is getting way too much attention here. What does he think? That this is own personal thread? Where is Bergie when you need him!
Have fun with your trains
vsmith wrote:See? I'm still not posting here Chad
nanaimo73 wrote: Chad, did you take your avatar picture , when was that ?
It looks like a cross between an SP locomotive, and a SOO line locomotive. Don't tell me those two have also merged?
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
Sorry Dale, I missed this post. Yes I took that picture in the Oakland engine faciliy in the summer of 86'.
chad thomas wrote: nanaimo73 wrote: Chad, did you take your avatar picture , when was that ? Sorry Dale, I missed this post. Yes I took that picture in the Oakland engine faciliy in the summer of 86'.
Now Chad, correct me if I'm wrong but I heard that SP painted it back to gray and red and while leasing it to BN it was involved in a wreck. So the 7347 no longer exists.
zgardner18 wrote:Ya, it's mine. My grandfather actually bought it for me when I was about 12 or so. It's an Athearn Blue Box, and I really haven't had time to really detail it. All I've done to it is applied window visors, and painted the grills black and the handrails blue. I haven't had the time to focus on it. Athearn didn't have a SD40 at the time so my engine is a SD40-2. Now that Athearn has the SD40 in RTR, it would be nice to see them come out with this puppy.
Don't forget the "men at work" sign on the side of the cab-classic.
Thats too cool. I had an SD45 in the popsicle scheme that my uncle gave me when I was about 15 but it had the overly wide carbody. Eventually I re-shelled all my SD45s with proper width shells and that body got scraped. How many locos do you have?
Murphy Siding wrote: zgardner18 wrote:Ya, it's mine. My grandfather actually bought it for me when I was about 12 or so. It's an Athearn Blue Box, and I really haven't had time to really detail it. All I've done to it is applied window visors, and painted the grills black and the handrails blue. I haven't had the time to focus on it. Athearn didn't have a SD40 at the time so my engine is a SD40-2. Now that Athearn has the SD40 in RTR, it would be nice to see them come out with this puppy. Don't forget the "men at work" sign on the side of the cab-classic.
If you can make a model of that sign that small then you are a better modeler then I.
chad thomas wrote: Murphy Siding wrote: zgardner18 wrote:Ya, it's mine. My grandfather actually bought it for me when I was about 12 or so. It's an Athearn Blue Box, and I really haven't had time to really detail it. All I've done to it is applied window visors, and painted the grills black and the handrails blue. I haven't had the time to focus on it. Athearn didn't have a SD40 at the time so my engine is a SD40-2. Now that Athearn has the SD40 in RTR, it would be nice to see them come out with this puppy. Don't forget the "men at work" sign on the side of the cab-classic. If you can make a model of that sign that small then you are a better modeler then I.
I thought the sign was pretty neat. It doesn't look to be company issue, either.
Zak, Chad,
Is it free to join this, and get details of 7347 ?
http://espee.railfan.net/spsd40r.html
nanaimo73 wrote: Zak, Chad, Is it free to join this, and get details of 7347 ? http://espee.railfan.net/spsd40r.html
It appears to be.
chad thomas wrote: zgardner18 wrote:Ya, it's mine. My grandfather actually bought it for me when I was about 12 or so. It's an Athearn Blue Box, and I really haven't had time to really detail it. All I've done to it is applied window visors, and painted the grills black and the handrails blue. I haven't had the time to focus on it. Athearn didn't have a SD40 at the time so my engine is a SD40-2. Now that Athearn has the SD40 in RTR, it would be nice to see them come out with this puppy. Thats too cool. I had an SD45 in the popsicle scheme that my uncle gave me when I was about 15 but it had the overly wide carbody. Eventually I re-shelled all my SD45s with proper width shells and that body got scraped. How many locos do you have?
I just made a list the other day of all my HO engines that I have minus the ones that I feel don't count, like some old Bachmann's and Life-like's that I will only use for practicing painting on. At the present time I have 45 with three on Pre-order. I have BNSF, BN, SF, SP, UP, MRL, San Diego Coaster, Amtrak, EMDX, CEFX
It keeps telling me that the page can't be displayed.
zgardner18 wrote: nanaimo73 wrote: Zak, Chad, Is it free to join this, and get details of 7347 ? http://espee.railfan.net/spsd40r.html It keeps telling me that the page can't be displayed.
Hu, It worked for me. Try going to the home page
http://espee.railfan.net/nonindex/daylight-diesel_photos/7342_sp-daylight-sd40r-
Sound like you got about the same amount as I do. I have around 50 but sience I don't have a layout right now a few are on lease to my dads layout. Most of what I have is Athern blue box with some Bachman Spectrum utits too. I got finally got rid of all my "don't count" crap so almost all of what I have is detailed and looks good. The exception being the last two SD45s I rebodyed with proper width shells, they were not done the last time they got packed. Most of what I have is SP/SSW but I do have a few SF,BN and UP units. Of course they are all pre merger units.
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