Bob, great to read a post from you. As for me, I've been busy with family matters and have not attended to S-scale issues. That coupled with the fact that my server [something or someone] would not accept messages from the S-scale group, so I knew next to nothing of what was going on.
Then suddenly with the change in format, I'm receiving messages again. Have to hunt them down of course, but I guess that's part of the format. Anyway, read your post and viewed Bob Hogan's exquisite triple-unit dining car. At the time I never got within 1800 miles of California, but in the early Seventies in Houston, Texas, I actually saw the real thing.&n
bsp; A Judge Hofheinz had purchased a number of passenger cars from a variety of roads and planned to doing "something" with them, but his plans never came to fruition.
Well, wish I had known you were selling your F units. Best to you.
Tom Baker
--- In [email protected], <user141771@...> wrote:
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:
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> Hello again boB!
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> Well... I wouldn't say ALL the Alco's are breathing. Some of them are in the dead line and may not be revived.
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> Have you made any progress on your Shabbona RR since I was a fixture here?
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> Still mulling my options... but whatever is done will be after we return from Colorady.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> All fer now.
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> Andre
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> Andre:
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> 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
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