Hey hey, i love the Milwaukee too! Michael, great job on the GP20! Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 15, 2012, at 1:12 PM, "pickycat95" <[email protected]> wrote: > I've got about a third of a foot in the Milwaukee camp. I purchased two of > Chuck's Milwaukee Alco RS-3s at the Duluth convention. I've also been held > back because I was focusing on layout building and have been afraid of real > kitbashing and painting. Now the railroad is in the process of being scrapped > because we are moving and I've taken a tentative step into kitbashing with my > (stalled) attempt to convert a Lionel autorack to S. > > I changed course when SSA came out with the coal porters and have taken on > more of a modern-to-contemporary interest along with a little squinting to > make it seem more so. Now Lionel comes out with both a u-boat in Milwaukee > and a modern SD in BNSF. What's a guy supposed to do? Take out a payday loan? > > I had a plan that I could run a dual era layout. Or I could imagine that > Milwaukee never bit the dust. It goes with the squinting thing. > Ben > > --- In [email protected], Bob Werre <bob@...> wrote: > > > > Michael, > > > > Great progress with the GP-20. I guess since the passing of Mr. Chuck > > Porter, you and I are probably the only die-hards modeling the > > Milwaukee. You seem to be going the extra mile in that direction. I > > have written most of an article that will appear in the S Sig about our > > favorite railroad. Perhaps we can eventually link your blog to that > > article. > > > > I'm trying to figure out how to obtain a SD-45 when they arrive, so > > perhaps it's okay that it's a ways off yet (comments Ron?). I just hate > > getting one of those 'pay-day' loans to get one! > > > > Bob Werre > > > > > > > > On 8/15/12 4:00 AM, Michael Ostertag wrote: > > > > > > I am going to be moving my photos of my Milwaukee Road GP20 project to a > > > blog site over the next couple of days. The Yahoo Groups site is too > > > full to allow me to continue to post new photos of the project the way I > > > would like. So I will be starting a blog about it. The blog will > > > coinside with an article I have started to write about the units and how > > > I modeled the one I have in S scale. I will post a like to my blog when > > > I get it up and running. > > > > > > Thanks > > > Michael Ostertag > > > Green Bay, WI > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
