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Post by snootie3257 on Oct 22, 2023 7:15:06 GMT -8
Did not see one this morning   I’m not seeing it either😁 Steve |
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Post by Baikal on Oct 22, 2023 7:27:25 GMT -8
Did not see one this morning Wot? |
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Post by mdq on Oct 22, 2023 7:42:28 GMT -8
I meant I did not see the Sunday Photo Fun Thread this morning ...and my link doesn't work ...  Now it works   |
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Post by hudsonyard on Oct 22, 2023 9:08:50 GMT -8
 finished one of the new ST kit classics ex-MTH reefers, these are great little kits for the $$$. |
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Post by TBird1958 on Oct 22, 2023 10:12:17 GMT -8
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Post by dti406 on Oct 22, 2023 11:13:02 GMT -8
Good afternoon from cloudy and cool northeast Ohio! Here are this week's completed projects. First an Atlas 5077CF FMC Boxcar kit, painted with Floquil MEC Harvest Yellow and Scalecoat II Silver and Matte Black paints then lettered with Highball Graphics decals. First thing I did was replace the Accubreak couplers with Kadee Whisker couplers after modifying the coupler box. This car participated in the IPD 1970's boxcar boom as old 40' cars neared retirement and railroads were unable to finance the purchase of new cars. _IMG_0493.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) Next, a highly modified Con-Cor (Ex-AHM) covered hopper car, I removed the heavy cast on ladders and grabs and replaced them with ladders left over from IMRC PS1 boxcar kits and wire grabs where appropriate. Also replaced the running board with a Plano replacement designed for this car. Car was in various services on the Rock Island including grain, potash, soda ash etc. _IMG_0494.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) Last weekend I took my Athearn DT&I GP40-2's and a raft of my cars used in the Campbell Soup business out of Napoleon, OH and ran them on the Strongsville Club Layout. You can see some of my more recent builds in the first few cars behind the engines. _IMG_0487.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) Have a great weekend! Rick Jesionowski |
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Post by ChessieFan1978 on Oct 22, 2023 15:57:31 GMT -8
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Post by stevef45 on Oct 23, 2023 4:26:39 GMT -8
Won an athearn rtr sd40-2 pretty dam cheap on ebay. Forgot i even bid on it. So it's now part of my messed up mind's idea of rebuilding a what if high hood. I'll figure out a back store for how and why they rebuilt it this way. But hey, it's my railroad and we'll do as we please lol  20231021_115717 by Tripps Pics79, on Flickr  20231022_202453 by Tripps Pics79, on Flickr  20231022_202505 by Tripps Pics79, on Flickr More parts on the way. Adding cannon anticlimbers to front and rear. Redoing short hood sides. Didn't like how the filler piece looked after sanding the seams. |
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Post by Christian on Oct 23, 2023 6:16:16 GMT -8
Three years ago this week. (I'm still in my model building slump.) This is a Tangent hopper kit that was intended to be something else. But I screwed up and choose the wrong hopper for the prototype and then the wrong decals for either the prototype or the foobie! In disgust I converted the hopper into a real foobie based on paintouts on returned lease cars. Then weathered the heck out of it. By far my most extreme weathering, but I wanted some result for the project that I didn't have to hide in a box for my descendents to eBay. Weathering is actually from prototype, but a composite from several cars. Base coat black ends and white sides are Stynylrez primer. The weathering uses materials from Vallejo, CMK, Micron, and AK Interactive. Airbrush, brush, gel pen, and watercolor pencil.   |
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Post by rockisland652 on Oct 23, 2023 8:02:02 GMT -8
Busy afternoon at Joliet.  |
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Post by danpik on Oct 23, 2023 10:28:20 GMT -8
This weeks Offering...   Dan |
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Post by drsvelte on Oct 23, 2023 10:55:21 GMT -8
In my hometown in western Pennsylvania, nobody much drank Rolling Rock. Schlitz, Koehler, Genesee, Pabst, were sellers along with BUD. But for some reason, Rolling Rock became "a thing" in the 1980's or thereabouts. One could even find it here in the Deep South.  Then AB bought out the company about 20 years ago. Can you find Rolling Rock anywhere now?? |
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Post by wagnersteve on Oct 23, 2023 16:41:10 GMT -8
October 23, about 8:30 p.m., EDT
One of my late uncles, who lived in Philadelphia, liked Rolling Rock, considering it a good light beer (in style and color, not so much really in calories or alcohol content). Quite similar, as I remember, to Miller High Life. Most of us associated Latrobe, much farther west in PA, with Arnold Palmer, after whom a mix of lemonade and iced tea was named. Not a bad combination. On Amtrak I have often bought both a decent American beer and ginger ale and mixed the two to approximate what the Brits call shandy or shandy gaff. It's not as sweet as ginger ale and not as alcoholic as beer. I never saw an ad associating Rolling Rock with Playboy and hadn't heard about a takeover by Anhaueser-Busch, which has now sadly been taken over by an even bigger foreign-based that has removed the real Clydesdale horses from the brewery in Merrimack, NH and all but abandoned their use in ads. Pfui! One of my long gone grandfathers liked a probably long-gone beer brewed in PA called Valley Forge, probably because of the pretty young woman in its ads, but she was fully dressed in a costume resembling a much better American Revolutionary War uniform than the ragged ones many of the soldiers who had to winter at Valley Forge had! I do have an HO beer truck lettered for Rolling Rock.
Finished close to 10 p.m., EDT:
My memory about the drink named after Arnold Palmer was incorrect. I've just looked it up on Wikipedia and fixed what I'd written earlier. It is entirely nonalcoholic, and I do think it's a great combination. Shandygaff or shandy does have about half the alcohol of a regular light beer.
On a similar subject, here are some facts about Polar Beverages, a producer of soft drinks in Worcester, Mass., whose use of Orson the polar bear in its ads, as well as, in a form larger than any living bear, atop its building, just off I-290, long predate Coca-Cola's use of polar bears in its ads. A quite new stadium in that city is named for the beverage firm. For at least the past season Polar Park has been the home of the top farm team for the Boston Red Sox, formerly the "Pawsox" in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. They're now the "Woosox". To match the pronunciation of the first vowel sound in the city's name, as in the one of the older city in England, the "oo" should be pronounced as in "woof", not as in "woo". Unfortunately, many announcers on radio and TV broadcasts for the major league team get it wrong. For the past few years Polar has sold substantially more unsweetened carbonated water than regular soda, pop, or, to use a term still often used in the Boston area, "tonic" including real cane or beet sugar or artificial sweetening agents.
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Post by jonklein611 on Oct 24, 2023 5:28:39 GMT -8
Then AB bought out the company about 20 years ago. Can you find Rolling Rock anywhere now?? Pittsburgher here, yes you can still get it. |
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Post by valenciajim2 on Oct 24, 2023 17:41:32 GMT -8
Then AB bought out the company about 20 years ago. Can you find Rolling Rock anywhere now?? Pittsburgher here, yes you can still get it. Yes, but can you still find Coleen Marie and nine of her Playmate friends?  Something tells me that the poster showing her could be turned into an interesting HO scale billboard. |
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Post by wagnersteve on Oct 24, 2023 18:46:06 GMT -8
Oct. 24, 2023, about 10:31 p.m., EDT (a little before going to be after a LONG busy day)
Speaking of Pittsburgh beers, somewhere I have some old cardboard refrigerator car slides that were printing in the NMRA Bulletin decades ago. The one I'm tempted actually to build on a basically wooden body is lettered for Olde Frothinslosh, the beer "with the foam on the bottom", as created on the radio by Rege Cordic. See the Wikipedia article on him. It doesn't mention a marvelously evocative serious and affectionate autobiographical piece, I think entitled "Roundhouse Rabbi", a true story about a memorable owner of a clothing store who got along very well with the workers at a nearby B&O roundhouse when Cordic was a kid. That was published in Trains or Classic Trains quite a few years back.
Cordic had a sense of humor comparable to that of another great man of radio, Jean Shepherd, one or more of whose stories was the basis for the great movie A Christmas Story.
Garrison Keillor deservedly became famous for his Prairie Home Companion on public radio a little later.
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