Hello again boB! Well... I wouldn't say ALL the Alco's are breathing. Some of them are in the dead line and may not be revived.
Have you made any progress on your Shabbona RR since I was a fixture here? Still mulling my options... but whatever is done will be after we return from Colorady. I think it would be good to do something that's not too involved. You know, see some quick gratification without weeks and weeks of small-piddly work before said gratification. (i.e. Not a good time to restart on my Baldwin projects.) Along the "quick n' easy" line of thought, I may weather my CB&Q SW9 and/or some rolling stock. Seeing something LAYOUT READY without a large amount of time investment would be nice at this point. OH... and keep selling off my crap. Yup... just packaged the last box of 3 rail stuff for this week and it will be shipped to its new owner tomorrow. When I return from Colorady, I'm going to try to finish off the remaining 3 rail stuff... then I may start hitting the HO stuff. This first batch of 3 rail sell-offs has made a noticable reduction of the CLUTTER that I laughingly call "hobby stuff" in this toxic dump of a hobby room. All fer now. Andre Original message: 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
