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ginzokid · ‎05-23-2007

My new N scale Shay should be here soon. I think that June is the Canadian F7 release also. B-)

ginzokid · ‎07-22-2015

Took the car in for service yesterday and ended up trading it for a 2016 Mazda CX-3 GT. This baby is loaded! The driver's side looks like a jet fighter cockpit and it even has a heads up display. You can look it up if you want to see it. The trade-in is only a year old, but we just wanted a little bigger car. New car is red of course.

taz-of-boyds · ‎07-26-2015

Pete,

Heads up display sounds cool.

Puzzling over that for trains gives me an idea. What might be a cool way to drive trains around the layout, is a camera in the locomotive, and locomotive cab setup to sit in with throttle and stuff with the train view camera video displayed for the engineer! Sort of like a heads up display....

All the best,

Charles

ginzokid · ‎07-27-2015

Great idea Charles. How about one of those small cameras that broadcast back to a computer? Link the computer with the train throttle, there are programs out there for this now, and use the computer screen to see the layout and run the train from the keyboard or a joystick. You could even be on vacation in Hawaii or some exotic place and run your trains from your tablet etc. while basking in the sun with some liquid refreshment. I'm willing to bet someone had done this already.

Spoiler

taz-of-boyds · ‎08-26-2015

The continuance of the group not withstanding (whatever that means...) I did get a train for my birthday, N Scale MT PRR baggage car:

It can go with assorted PRR trains I am scheduling for my eventual operation behind a couple steam locomotives and my GG1.

All the best,

Charles

wolfb · ‎09-14-2015

Just got these at local auction. I hav $12 in the rolling stock and another $12 in the motors.

thanks for looking! Wolf-==-

dl85vette · ‎10-30-2015

Far from train related purchase but what the hell. I pre-ordered a Pocher Models Ducati 1299 1/4 scale bike kit. 20" long and 5 kg. That's the bike not the box. It is a Beast! Over 600 pieces. My wife is gonna shoot me. probaby not. She's in England for a couple days for some festival gathering of sort.

Day off today and didn't do a darn thing. Woke up at 4 am with crampy stomach. Had to see dr this AM about my stomach woes. So another drug to try. Plus while I was there got a flu shot so this afternoon I was wiped out and napped . Tried to sand a model body but idn't feel alert so stopped that before i sanded thru the paint. Went to Lee Valley to get some more 2400-4000 grit polishing pads.

hopefully I have better drive tomorrow to spent 6 hours modelling. Might leave the halloween treats on the doorstep and hide in the modelling room.

ginzokid · ‎11-01-2015

What scale are all those engines and cars? They have a look of N scale about them. Expecially the ones with the rapido couplers. Are they all in running order?

Inquiring (nosey) minds need to know.

ginzokid · ‎12-01-2015

Well I received my winter project yesterday. The new FSM kit. I'm a little bummed out that it got caught by customs and I had to fork over $52 to get it. As far as I am concerned the customs tax is nothing but highway robbery. And with the Canadian dollar down so low it really hurts. Wish I were close enough to the border to shop in the US. The mail and customs fees make for almost double the cost of anything I buy on line. Grumble, grumble, grumble.........

dl85vette · ‎12-03-2015

What's just as sad Pete, Is I'm so close to the states but nothing for quality shops in Fargo or Grand Forks. Actually nothing until Omaha, and even then it's sketchy. one shop I went to this summer was the size of my living room. Not sure if the salesman was even into trains as hewasnt much for conversation when sharing my excitement of catching some decent pics of BNSF and UP. If you're not into trains, then don't work at a hobby shop.

Customs aside. the exchange rate really stings. Thankfully my pocher kit is pre-ordered through a shop in Toronto. 40 some in tax and another 40something for Canada Post. And then it won't be avail until over the winter. argggghhh.

Who knows when we'll see the dollar par again. I won't be surprised if that is over a year....at least....

dl85vette · ‎12-03-2015

Oh yea, look forward to seeing it once completed. Your FSM kits always turn out as masterpieces.

hobyman58 · ‎03-04-2016

Where did you get your N scale shay?

Michael

taz-of-boyds · ‎03-04-2016

Michael,

I believe Pete has an O Scale Shay. But have you seen this:

http://www.atlasrr.com/NLoco/nshay3.htm

An image from their web page:

It is Atlas' newest batch of N Scale Shay locomotives.

All the best,

Charles

ginzokid · ‎03-05-2016

I have two On30 Shays and two of the original Atlas N scale Shays. The N scale Shays can be found on eBay from time to time at a rediculously high price. I do not know if the new issues are any better than the old ones, but mine run very smoothly. They are only DC of course. On the other hand, the On30 Shays are DCC with full sound.

taz-of-boyds · ‎07-27-2016

As the world tries to shake it self to pieces...

I got some new trains, some cool silver corrugated passenger cars from Bachmann. These are maybe my most favorite kind of passenger car. In this case the B&O can fit in the end of my eclectic modeling era, and the Capitol Limited traveled through Cumberland.

These are: Observation Wawasee BAC-14553-2, Coach Oriole BAC-14753-2, and Baggage REA BAC-14653-2.

I may be trying to get some of the Kato RDC's as well, the B&O seems to have had some RDC-1's and RDC-2's. Kato never lettered theirs for B&O, but it looks like the B&O only put a couple emblems on the end and lettered B&O and the number on the side, so this would work nicely on the Kato undecorated RDC's.

All the best,

Charles