I'll see your Black Widow -- and I'll raise you one Tiger Stripe: And I have an ace in the hole... Be well, Carl
A common customer for the Frisco in SE Kansas in the early 1900s. Long-Bell Lumber started out in Columbus Kansas and emerged as one of the first vertically-integrated large businesses in the U.S. I have been building this one for Weir City, KS on my layout.
Good afternoon from sunny and cold Northeast Ohio! Sorry no SP or UP stuff here! Just a couple of Blue Birds! I did manage to finish another couple of cars this week, along with updating 15 hopper cars I got off of E-bay with Kadee Couplers and new IMRC Wheelsets to conform with the clubs requirements. Atlas USRA Rebuilt Boxcar Kit, painted with Scalecoat II Boxcar Red and lettered with Tichy Decals. Car was in general service and I needed a few Lackawanna cars as until 1960 Lackawanna was NKP's partner to get to New York City. Tichy Panel Sided Hopper with Extension, car was painted with Scalecoat II Silver and Reading Green paints and lettered with kit supplied decals. This is the eighth car I have built as I want to replicate the trains of these cars that used to go past my house in Toledo. Last week I took my Rapido Ann Arbor FA-2's to the club along with my recently completed covered hoppers. Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski
The layout is a mess, but I still have the Water Tower Diorama and Bachmann RF-16A and RF-16B better known as Sharknoses. Both in Baldwin Demonstrator colors.
OK, This Michigan boy is feeling a little out of the loop here, but I enjoyed the banter immensely. Seriously guys, you've made for an entertaining thread along with some nice pics. Thanks for posting.
Here is a question for J. Debene or any hoghead out there. I found this in some of my father's "stuff" while cleaning up the other day. I have always thought it is a "key" for an EMD diesel. Is that close and does it activate reverse/forward or anything else. It is 6" in length. He retired in 1981 with 41 years of service on the T&NO/T&L, so is this an old whatever? He was engineering from the 1st F's up to (SD40's or 45's ?). What say you? ? Stay well, Carl
Basically the key to a locomotive. Can only imagine where and in what locomotives it's been. Ha, funny thing(kinda' scary in a way actually), I bought one off of Walmarts online a few years ago!! It was yellow and had a small built-in flashlight! $20, hopefully someone pulled them from the site, cause I can imagine someone using it to take a very dangerous joy-ride.....
You guys are a tough act to follow. I'll stick to modeling. Here's a few of the progress on the industrial area.
Man, that factory scene is unbelievably rich and busy. It definitely gets on my oldfactory nerve- Multiple rail spurs, truck bays, loading dock, parking and employee break area and different buildings, all more or less old. Makes me wish I could be N scale just to look around and take it in.
