Andre:

Still swattin' flies, that's reached the proportions of an Olympic sport in 
these parts, also beats checking the pulse for signs of life. When it comes to 
grass, green is always good. Glad to know the ALCO's are still breathin, too. I 
hope you have a better opinion of those new locomotives than I did on IC

--- In [email protected], "Andre Ming" <laming@...> wrote:
>
> boB!
> 
> Thanks for the welcome!  Good to see you're still kickin' n' swattin' flies!  
> SOOO much better to be lookin' down on the grass instead of up at it.

You're right, we could probably make the KC bottoms swing with two of us, one 
of us totally incompetent anymore. Just no RCO please, and if you ever get that 
motorcycle headed this way, don't go by without stopping. Don't get a whole lot 
of visitors in my neck of the woods. As for as selling my home, who knows what 
the future may bring. My wife was asking about Springfield MO, the other day, 
and has been mentioning friends in Branson, so we may at least be in that 
direction for a visit, anyway. 

As far as hight and mighty conductors go, the engineer on my first day of 
engineer training always told me, "make sure THEY go home mad at night." He was 
always considered to be cut from another source of sheet metal, but there was a 
lot of wisdom in what he said. Whether he actually saw Sutnik turning over and 
over as it passed over GM Yard at McCook, that's still a matter of discussion 
in some quarters, today.

I keep thinking, that since I mentioned an S scale old time 4-4-0 on the 
Bachmann train forum the other day, the mailman may be leaving a package in my 
mailbox one of these days, but I'm not holding my breath. They got enough 
su-ah- customers in the scales they do manufacture to consider taking on 
another group of complainers. Anyway, I have considered running 0n30 as Sn42 
(the measurements are about right) just to see the look on the nitpickers' 
faces.

I guess I better quit before we get moderated. That happens frequently since 
you've been away.

Take care

boB  __________________________________________________________


> 
> You done said:
> 
> "About to lose your beloved ALCO's and need another source of diversion, eh."
> 
> Ah, the A&M and its Alco's:  The old chugs are safe for the foreseeable 
> future. They'll power all switch jobs and locals, as well as being in-consist 
> with the new ones as needed.  
> 
> "I wish we were closer together, I think between us we could make your little 
> KC switching layout really swing."
> 
> Now that would indeed be the hoot of all hoots.  I think you would enjoy 
> operations on my little West Bottoms layout, and I KNOW I would enjoy 
> operating on your Shabbona RR.  Why don't you sell your home and move to the 
> Sunbelt? :-)
> 
> On second thought... can you imagine what a mess we could make of 12th St. 
> Yard?  TWO Engineers making the switch moves?  You KNOW what those "high n' 
> mighty" type Conductors would think of that!
> 
> Speaking of an S scale 4-4-0... have you been able to view a Bachmann On30 
> 4-4-0 up close to see if it could crossover to S scale?
> 
> Andre Ming
>




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