Andre: There's been a little progress here. I sold off all the F-units, and am now an all ALCO rroad with the exeption of EMD SW-1 #22, a CB&Q NW-2 unit I picked up off of Ebay last spring, and two and one half FP-7's for passenger service. I say "two and one half" because the third FP-7 has not been fully prepared for service, yet.
I couldn't make Scranton, so while I was crying in my beer, and between swatting flies, I dolled up an old Marx stock car that would pucker the smokestack on one of Bill Lane's K-4's if it stayed in the vicinity too long (picture in the Photos section). Then I got wound up with this 19th Century thing, but S scale 4-4-0's are made of expensive and rare unobtanium metals which effectively shot that in the foot. Right now, I'm watching a crane model on Ebay that might work for unloading cars of sand at my ready-mix plant at Mooar Yard. None of them brass EM-1's for me! boB ______________________________________________________ --- In [email protected], "Andre Ming" <laming@...> wrote: > > 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 > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> 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/
