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Post by Gary P on Nov 4, 2014 8:33:05 GMT -8
PM sent.....
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2014 15:02:15 GMT -8
Thanks to all that PM'd. I still have a swirl in my life.....(have a look ) But I'm Feeling Much Better NowAnd my knee and heel still are absolutely on fire with pain. Doc's lets exhaust all avenues before we get sent to an orthopedic surgeon is clearly not working.....(grits teeth.....)
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Post by bobelliott on Nov 5, 2014 18:51:38 GMT -8
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2014 13:21:21 GMT -8
Continued the if it doesn't move dump routine today. Garbage dude makes his pick up tomorrow.
I never knew I could accumulate so much stuff. Photos, slides, timetables, copies, magazines, found more Atlas code 83 track products stuffed in a box. No wonder dad and I filled a 53' North American Van Lines trailer when we moved! Filled two big garbage cans of recyclables mostly from the kitchen and Dad's former business and I haven't even begun to shred the corporate papers.
I found receipts and credit card statements of mine dating back a long time during the shredding process. What I realized was the money I'd spent on this hobby when I was planning the "great" layout at the former house is mind boggling. At one time I had 25 plus cases of cork roadbed, 10 full cases of Atlas Code 83 flex track, 50 Atlas number 6 or 8 switches, 75 Walthers Shinohara code 83 switches mostly number 8's and 10's, two dozen Shinohara code 70 switches, Shinohara code 70 and 83 flex, 200 Intermountain freight car kits, 100 Red Caboose kits, 50 or more Walthers kits, 200 brass passenger cars, 75 brass locomotives both diesel and steam, over 200 undecorated Proto 2000-Atlas-Athearn Genesis-Athearn RTR, Intermountain and some others. Heck I had over 20 P2K E9's, lost count of the F-units, 150 or more Walthers named passenger train cars and a bunch of other stuff. All gone now, except for one Athearn RTR SD40-2 and a couple DD40's which may or may not ever become scale width hood DD35's and a token BLI E9 I had been building as a BN commuter unit. Big dreams to zero dreams and only contempt for my stupidity of the past. For what I spent on hobby junk, I could have bought a REAL locomotive or two or maybe a passenger car or cars or a couple of freight cars or at least a few cabooses.
Another big dreamer model railroader which has nothing to show, what a waste. I think the paper shredder has cooled off and I can start feeding it some more stuff.
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Post by stevef45 on Nov 10, 2014 17:23:57 GMT -8
what kind of slides are you getting rid of? care to not just not throw them away?
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Post by atsfan on Nov 10, 2014 19:24:23 GMT -8
I see slides sell on ebay for surprising money
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Post by Judge Doom on Nov 11, 2014 1:31:08 GMT -8
There is a large and active slide selling market on eBay. I've seen anywhere from $0.99 per slide to some very rare ones selling for a hundred or two. If it's RR related, all the better. Everything from 50's to modern rail stuff floats around. I've been keeping my eye on a few sellers that list 60's-80's freight car slides myself - back in the day it seemed most just shot the locos or train, and not the separate cars.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2014 9:11:00 GMT -8
The one slide that I consider decent was a photo I took of N&W A-Class 1218 blasting through La Porte, Indiana in the late 80's.
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Post by stevef45 on Nov 11, 2014 18:20:59 GMT -8
there is a guy who has some incredible slides. He recently sold one of some short line in the midwest for over $300 for the slide. I was bidding on a NYC slide from here in NJ and it was up to 37 before i bowed out.
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Post by WP 257 on Nov 11, 2014 18:32:37 GMT -8
I bought one slide off Ebay, but it was a rare one indeed: A Santa Fe Alligator RSD-15 in fresh, couple day old maximum, blue and yellow warbonnet paint in decent sunlight, for only about $5 or so. It actually had a little mold or mildew on it, but the fine film shop I went to converted it to a digital image and digitally cleaned up the mold problem (at no cost to me) to show me what they can do, and I got some great, frame-able 9" x 12" or so pictures out of it.
I routinely search for very specific things on Ebay, and have no qualms paying a little money for a single high quality slide of something that is special to me. (the holy grail for me being stuff like Mexican RSD-5's in fresh paint, or regular cab FCP Alco/MLW M-series units in fresh paint).
If you have saleable slides, I would recommend putting them up on Evilbay or as a minimum donating to worthy individual/cause rather than just trashing them.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2014 16:36:08 GMT -8
My photography more or less in my opinion and others isn't exactly first rate, more like "send in the clowns". The A-Class photo is best I've ever taken and the good shot averages about one in every one hundred photos. The collection hitting the dumpster is a fitting burial for my photos.
I also don't have the equipment to post the slide photos on e-Bay.
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