Thank-you for all the likes and fun remarks. The Three Amigos, is my favorite because of the friendship. After further thought on which three, we might be. The Three Musketeers comes to mind because we are always fighting for good. One way or another. Okay, so half the week has slipped by. Nothing has gotten done on the H&P. Busy cleaning the house and debating my next move. Waiting for the Eagle to land. There's another way to say that. I get paid on the third. Looking forward to that. Then maybe I can slip out and purchase some much needed particle board. Grab some 1X3's or 4's off the cut pile for 70% off. Start cutting some new risers. Everything in my life is a wait and see experience. Had fun with the kids last night. Lots of ghosts, goblins, and a few elf's (some wanted to work for Santa Claus). Lots of poor embalming jobs. Those skeletons deserve better. I said chuckling out loud. Well over 70 kids came by. I appreciate seeing the parents standing right behind them. I like that!! Well, the holiday is done. Looking forward to Thanksgiving, next. Now I can look at going back to work on wiring. Sigh! I know it's my fault, I chose the difficult road. But I like it. Later all.
Getting back to the number or three thousand class locomotive. The video isn't working and I don't know why. I can't find it again. It is what it is. Harrumph! Shooting black objects on a cloudy day can be difficult at best. I believe this is a 2-6-2. Most likely a locomotive similar to the one Grand-dad operated while in Helper Service. Retraction/Correction: Grand-dad served out of Seligman Arizona, during the 40's. In Santa Fe Helper Service. In Trains WigWag, Someone wrote up a story about Seligman and Helper Service recounting several stories that sounded like stories I'd heard.
Three Musketeers sounds good to me. Actually I was thinking Mousketeers. Mickey Mouse, Mickey Mouse, forever and forever....and on with the show. The train room and layout are taking shape. Tomorrow the Eagle Lands. This will allow me to make some purchases. I will be looking at getting more wood to build a light bar over the layout. More Particle Board to rebuild the main line. Gosh, the work involved. I have the track for the main line. Looks like i will be replacing a number of Kato Switches. I have a shipment of new stuff, expected here soon. More about this when it gets here. Rainy day in Idaho Country. Noted fires in Riverside, California. They could use some of this rain. Typical of October but not November. I wouldn't be surprised as to what's behind the fires. I still think there is a bunch of fire bugs who like to compete and see who can make the biggest fires. Looking at the past, they found a few guys who looking for summer work and hired on with the various county fire departments set off some of the fires. Not exactly job security when you get caught. That's one pay check wasted. Tomorrow, I will head out shopping. A stop at True Value to get some black caulk, is on my to do list. Later all !!
Good one and well played. Not when they were moved and packed the way they were. You've never heard me say they were bullet proof. I put a bee-bee through one of them. Felt so good to dispatch that Turnout. No, Yes, I really did call it that. Otherwise they are a Switch. Big Jake, well put.
I have Peco Switches that are that old or older. You can fix them and they keep right on switching!! The trains from one track to the other. My last Atlas switches got gleefully removed from the layout. Yes!!
Doug Gosha, somewhere in my memory is a thought that somehow identifies you with Atlas. Would that be so? You never know who you might bump into here on TB.
It's because I started with Atlas N scale in 1967 and my site, of course, is all about first generation Atlas motive power. Doug
I get it! Sorry, I'm not a great fan of Atlas, although to look at my fleet of diesels you'd think I was. That's what makes the world go round. Variety is the spice of life.
Sorry mi amigo, what makes the world go round is the rotating molten core! What makes our world go round is one of 2 things, trains and really great Bourbon!
Yes, let's pick on Atlas. NO OTHER maker has attached switch machines. Beginners should be left to figure out, for themselves, how to throw a switch supplied without an attached switch machine. The horribly unrealistic Kato track is hunky-Dory, however. Doug
Sorry, the rotational momentum of Earth's contraction from a cloud of dust and gas, is what makes the world go 'round. The still-molten, circulating iron core creates the Earth's magnetic field, which has shielded our atmosphere from being stripped away by the solar wind, a steady stream of charged particles and radiation emanating from the sun. Mars, smaller than Earth and farther from the Sun, has a core that has already largely frozen, virtually eliminating Mars' protective magnetic field, and allowed the solar wind to strip away the bulk of its atmosphere and water.
The earth is flat. I don't understand this rotation thing. I know because when I drive it's all still flat not curved ! Unless of course I drive over a hill !!
Come on now, you do get the rotation thing, it's flat like you say but still spins like a album on a record player!
Hey Rick, not model related but still train related, it looks like you are going to have a pretty neat visitor sometime in 2024. Excerpt from the UP Steam Club email I got the other day.
