Bob Thank you for your Milwaukee memories, yes the shortline with nowt but grass for ballast is my sort of line - the trouble is potentially, too many locos, too many freight cars, too little space. I have but 17ft 8in in length, by 2ft wide. Potentially 50+ freight cars, the potential locomotive count is 1#F7A, 1#F7B, 2# RS3s 1, 2# GP9s 2#GP35s, 1#GP38-2, 2#SD9s 1#SW1 & 1#SW9 the task is to design me a layout where by I can display as many locomotives and freight cars as possible, carry out some worthwhile switching
I await your proposals - I'm stumped Kelvin White Oxford, England Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PLEASE NOTE my email is changing in Mid May to [EMAIL PROTECTED] almost the same - just no Demon! ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Werre To: John Prior Cc: [email protected] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 10:27 PM Subject: Re: [S-Scale Modeling] Re: Milwaukee Road Locomotive Decals Guys, As a true 'dyed in the wool' Milwaukee fan, all you have to do to build your layout is a field of yellow grass and run rails through it. No ties, no ballast and no track gauge! what could be easier. Even better you could model the 80's when they stopped running trains west of the Minnesota state line! I walked the branch line that went through my home town and many of the ties were the consistency of balsa wood. The rail was so light and worn they were running at 5 mph toward the end. The rail had been milled in Germany in the 1880's and never had been updated! no need for 100 tone grain hoppers there! On a more serious note, modeling the Milwaukee in S is fairly good when the product selection is considered, especially during the orange / black and prior schemes. The Milwaukee had lot's of Alco RS's, lot's of GP-9's, SD-7/9's, SW of all kinds, most of the E and F unit styles. Later on they had a decent assortment of U boats and even later the SD-40-2's kept the road going until the end. What the Milwaukee modeler is truly missing is the horizontal ribbed bay window cabooses at ran the rails for 40 years. Unfortunately the SHS caboose was normally used only on one route in the later years and the AM's old style caboose painted for the road misses the boat also. Bob Werre John Prior wrote: Kelvin You advise that it is, "Time to settle down and do something". I always thought it was the 'Demon' in you, that made you change your Scale/Gauge/Road/Era once a week. Is this now to change? How will all your friends be able to poke fun at you in the future? Now if you concentrate on the Milwaukee in the Orange and Black era, you know how to reproduce accurately the trackwork then so often found on the Milw. In fact the baseboards might be the most level part of the layout! :-) Hopefully this new empire will stretch to the electrified section and we will see Little Joe's and Bipolars! But now the hunt must be on for a collection of horizontal ribbed boxcars? Regards John, where's the baseboards, Prior Swindon, England ----- Original Message ----- Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 14:07:03 +0100 From: "Kelvin A. White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Milwaukee Road Locomotive Decals Thanks Gale Ron will be getting a order in the next day or so - I've some F7s, RS3s GP9s and GP35s and SW9 that need to be unified - I'm fed up of the great Undec Railroad.....I have too many dreams of with this loco I could make it into X, Y or Z railroad. Time to settle down and do something. Yes to John Prior the new baseboards are build. Best regards Kelvin White Oxford, England Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PLEASE NOTE my email is changing in Mid May to [EMAIL PROTECTED] almost the same - just no Demon! [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] The poll results are in....... To REPLY to the list, use REPLY ALL, to reply to the sender, use REPLY. I do NOT know if this works on all e-mail software, but it works on some of the most common ones. For those of you on DIGEST mode, all REPLY messages go to the list. Change your membership, change your message settings, use our CALENDAR, view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
