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Post by Spikre on Aug 7, 2015 12:13:24 GMT -8
 Larry, Laramie is the furthest west ever achieved here. stayed in a bath tub in one of the dorms until the class started coming back for spring semester. this was Spikre's "Walk About Period". so went east and south, ended up in Fort Myers Florida, where it snowed for the 1st time in about 50 years, puddles were iced over and Gators weren't to be seen. went back to NJ and met my wife, so it wasn't a fully wasted span of time. but do know about the prairie winds, lived in the Nebraska pan Handle for close to a year. Spikre 
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Post by valenciajim on Aug 7, 2015 20:09:43 GMT -8
Nice videos of club layout in Bakersfield. Interesting to see a brick wall as part of the building in which the layout id housed. I hope that the brick is reinforced--after all Bakersfield is not that far from the San Andreas fault.
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Post by Brakie on Aug 8, 2015 3:58:41 GMT -8
Auctions and bankruptcies can be strange things. I think the idea here is to minimize the costs of the aution process, but I suspect it will limit the return. Never the experience anyone else has noted here, it still sounds like what's left is an aged, picked-over inventory. That's not going to generate much interest. Selling in big batches means buyers will have to buy a lot of stuff they don't have a strong interest in to get the stuff they want.
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Mike,One sure bet is the train show dealers will show up in force and bid on that stock since the majority of train show dealers get their stock from closed hobby shop auctions, buying collections and estates.
I seen this before when a nearby shop closed 8 years ago. Those dealers knew how much to bid and wasn't backward in bidding..
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Post by Brakie on Aug 8, 2015 4:04:09 GMT -8
Much adoo over little adoo? Maybe someone knows something I don't? I guess maybe it's one of those, if you don't know what all the fuss is about, it's moot. Yup -- it's running neck-and-neck with horn-hook couplers ... Try not to laugh to hard since there are those among us that still uses the X2F.Why I do not know but,two months ago I sold a BB fight car box full of X2F couplers for $15.00. |
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Post by riogrande on Aug 8, 2015 5:12:12 GMT -8
No laughing, but maybe a :huh?" moment. But hey, if I could sell a box of X2F couplers for $15, I'd do that to, I just didn't think it was possible these days - most of mine go straight to the circular file!
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Post by calzephyr on Aug 8, 2015 7:23:24 GMT -8
Nice videos of club layout in Bakersfield. Interesting to see a brick wall as part of the building in which the layout id housed. I hope that the brick is reinforced--after all Bakersfield is not that far from the San Andreas fault. Jim It is an old three story building but was not damaged by the 1952 quake. It probably has not been upgraded but hopefully will stand if another major quake hits. Bakersfield certainly was effected by the 1952 quake and might get damage in future quakes if they are closer to the city. Larry |
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Post by Brakie on Aug 8, 2015 7:52:01 GMT -8
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Post by riogrande on Aug 8, 2015 9:31:44 GMT -8
I will admit though the X2F coupler when properly body mounted and at the correct height will beat any of the plastic KD wannabe couplers by a country mile. No thanks. No X2F for me. Much of my rolling stock still has plastic couplers but only because I haven't the money and time yet to replace them all yet. |
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Post by Brakie on Aug 8, 2015 10:06:46 GMT -8
I will admit though the X2F coupler when properly body mounted and at the correct height will beat any of the plastic KD wannabe couplers by a country mile. No thanks. No X2F for me. Much of my rolling stock still has plastic couplers but only because I haven't the money and time yet to replace them all yet. Try using some of those plastic couplers..The only coupler that will be decent enough to use is the Accumate unless one tries to pull a long train with them. The X2F will work on long trains and switching moves.. |
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Post by riogrande on Aug 8, 2015 13:03:16 GMT -8
No thank you.
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Post by llxlocomotives on Aug 8, 2015 13:50:56 GMT -8
Looks like the auction has taken a back seat. I think the guys are right about the $500 and the bundles. A good auction would liquidate everything in one day. In total the overall take would be higher and could be settled in less than a week. Interesting.
By the way, 100 horn hooks sell regularly for between $10 and $40 on e-bay. I think there is a large silent group who still run with them.
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Post by mlehman on Aug 8, 2015 17:40:48 GMT -8
SNIP By the way, 100 horn hooks sell regularly for between $10 and $40 on e-bay. I think there is a large silent group who still run with them. Maybe. It also may be that those who include them with their kits -- does anyone still do that? -- find them cheaper that way than bought wholesale? |
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Post by calzephyr on Aug 9, 2015 17:23:29 GMT -8
Looks like the auction has taken a back seat. I think the guys are right about the $500 and the bundles. A good auction would liquidate everything in one day. In total the overall take would be higher and could be settled in less than a week. Interesting. By the way, 100 horn hooks sell regularly for between $10 and $40 on e-bay. I think there is a large silent group who still run with them. That is amazing since I have tossed every single one that came on anything I ever purchased!! Larry |
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Post by llxlocomotives on Aug 9, 2015 17:28:30 GMT -8
How does that old bromide go, One mans junk is another mans treasure....
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Post by edwardsutorik on Aug 9, 2015 19:33:58 GMT -8
]That is amazing since I have tossed every single one that came on anything I ever purchased!! Larry Somewhere here, I still have my Athearn partial-pickle car, with an X2f on one end, and a Kadee 5 on the other. That would be the old mechanical one. With the vertical pin. Ed who's clearly ready for anything. except Kim Kardashian choosing to retire from public view |
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Post by Brakie on Aug 10, 2015 3:05:01 GMT -8
]That is amazing since I have tossed every single one that came on anything I ever purchased!! Larry Somewhere here, I still have my Athearn partial-pickle car, with an X2f on one end, and a Kadee 5 on the other. That would be the old mechanical one. With the vertical pin. Ed who's clearly ready for anything. except Kim Kardashian choosing to retire from public view I have a 50' gon with that set up..Never know if a new club member will show up with locomotives equipped with X2F and no cars or train set quality cars with truck mounted X2F couplers that constantly derails. |
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Post by dti406 on Aug 10, 2015 5:30:39 GMT -8
No laughing, but maybe a :huh?" moment. But hey, if I could sell a box of X2F couplers for $15, I'd do that to, I just didn't think it was possible these days - most of mine go straight to the circular file! On E-bay recently 20 "Tyco" X2F's went for $39.95. There is a sucker born every minute. I am thinking of putting all my Accu-Breaks up for auction now. Rick J |
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Post by dti406 on Aug 10, 2015 5:43:10 GMT -8
Regarding the furthest west, I guess mine would be the port site for the Red Dog Mine in Northwest Alaska on the Bearing Sea. I had to go there when the airstrip at the mine was fogged in for days, the plane landed on the haul road to pick us up.
For my favorite place, would be Colorado except for a couple of times a year the weather was always good, even during the winter all I wore to work was my Blazer, the sun was so strong it warmed everything up. Due to the Bentonite in the soil Colorado did not have many basements either, unless they had piers and solid wall.
Been to Laramie a number of times, and the wind there and Cheyenne never stops blowing. There was a ridge about 10 miles north of Fort Collins where the temperature dropped what seemed like 20 degrees, it was sure cold up there.
Rick J
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Post by Brakie on Aug 10, 2015 6:32:51 GMT -8
No laughing, but maybe a :huh?" moment. But hey, if I could sell a box of X2F couplers for $15, I'd do that to, I just didn't think it was possible these days - most of mine go straight to the circular file! On E-bay recently 20 "Tyco" X2F's went for $39.95. There is a sucker born every minute. I am thinking of putting all my Accu-Breaks up for auction now. Rick J Rick,Ever think that could have been a collector buying parts so he/she can return those cars to their original condition? You and I may not even bother looking at train set quality cars and locomotives but,there are hundreds that collect that stuff.. How many of us collects IPD short line boxcars? I suspect there may be hundreds. I'm now up to 254 of those things. |
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Post by riogrande on Aug 10, 2015 6:39:05 GMT -8
Rick, I haven't sold anything on Ebay for many years, probably 2006 or so. But all this talk of people buying X2F couplers or plastic clones for real money makes one think! I've tossed most of mine either into a box or the trash with little thought but a little cash from them wouldn't hurt. I was gonna say you have me beat for furthest west with Alaska, and suppose that's true for mainland US (CONUS as they call it) but I have been to Hawaii twice as a kid and a teen so that's west isn't? Being an Air Force brat, we went west to California in 1966 and remained there until I moved east in 1983/84 to finish out my undergraduate at Indiana University. Indiana University School of Geology held their field camp at Cardwell Montana: www.indiana.edu/~iugfs/facilities_lodge.htmlThat was quite an adventure for me in 1984 - the slogan that summer was "it isn't the end of the world, but you can see it from here". The 1984 trip started out in the Black Hills of South Dakota, across the Wind River range, up through Yellow Stone National Park over to the Beartooth pass and eventually to Indiana Field Station between Butte and Bozeman Montana. That trip also included a foray up into Glacier National Park and down into Florence MO where my cousin lived and worked for many years as a US Forrest Ranger. Lots of pretty and interesting places to visit out west but it's really spread out - that's for sure! |
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Post by dti406 on Aug 10, 2015 7:04:41 GMT -8
I was gonna say you have me beat for furthest west with Alaska, and suppose that's true for mainland US (CONUS as they call it) but I have been to Hawaii twice as a kid and a teen so that's west isn't? That was quite an adventure for me in 1984 - the slogan that summer was "it isn't the end of the world, but you can see it from here". Actually Hawaii is West, but where I was is close to the International Date Line, and Hawaii is east of that. And I was mistaken, the Port Site was on the Chuckchi Sea and not the Bearing Sea. By the way, in Alaska Shemya Island out in the Aleutians was that place "its not the end of the world but you can see it from there" as non-military people could get there and not Attu which was further west. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShemyaBy the way a great bar bet, which state is the furthest east, it is Alaska as some of the islands in the Aleutians are west of the 180th meridian which makes it the furthest east state. Rick |
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Post by riogrande on Aug 10, 2015 7:46:39 GMT -8
Uncle! By that definition then, I can't claim to have been further "west" than any of the contiguous lower states (CA, OR, WA), which I counted I've been to 45 of the total 50 US states in my travels. Almost all of my fellow college studends were "easterners" and to them, it felt like they were looking at the end of the world when were were out there in Wyoming and Montana so I'll allow them the slogan; even though I actually had to travel "east" to get to field camp from where I lived being a resident of California at the time. Who is the bar judge on the "east" bet? I'll keep my money in my pocket and spend it on trains! Looks like Moloco will be getting some of that money in the near future.
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Post by mowingman on Aug 10, 2015 9:27:56 GMT -8
Rick, I haven't sold anything on Ebay for many years, probably 2006 or so. But all this talk of people buying X2F couplers or plastic clones for real money makes one think! I've tossed most of mine either into a box or the trash with little thought but a little cash from them wouldn't hurt. I was gonna say you have me beat for furthest west with Alaska, and suppose that's true for mainland US (CONUS as they call it) but I have been to Hawaii twice as a kid and a teen so that's west isn't? Being an Air Force brat, we went west to California in 1966 and remained there until I moved east in 1983/84 to finish out my undergraduate at Indiana University. Indiana University School of Geology held their field camp at Cardwell Montana: www.indiana.edu/~iugfs/facilities_lodge.htmlThat was quite an adventure for me in 1984 - the slogan that summer was "it isn't the end of the world, but you can see it from here". The 1984 trip started out in the Black Hills of South Dakota, across the Wind River range, up through Yellow Stone National Park over to the Beartooth pass and eventually to Indiana Field Station between Butte and Bozeman Montana. That trip also included a foray up into Glacier National Park and down into Florence MO where my cousin lived and worked for many years as a US Forrest Ranger. Lots of pretty and interesting places to visit out west but it's really spread out - that's for sure! That is interesting. In 1972, I had that field camp high on my list of selections. Got accepted, but decided to go to the Univ. Of Missouri-Columbia, geology field camp in Lander, Wyoming. We were working in the Wind River mountains also. Jeff |
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Post by TBird1958 on Aug 10, 2015 9:28:22 GMT -8
Sorry for the derail...... Northwestern most point in the lower 48http://clui.org/ludb/site/northwesternmost-point-continental-48-united-states I've visited there, it's a little bit of a hike, the forest has enormous trees and the land falls away to the ocean very steeply on both sides forming a point. The island in the distance is Tatoosh, there's a remotely operated lighthouse on it.  To right from that same point...  On the left, looking south, the water only looks calm here, it's actually very turbulent.  |
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Post by riogrande on Aug 10, 2015 10:59:07 GMT -8
That is interesting. In 1972, I had that field camp high on my list of selections. Got accepted, but decided to go to the Univ. Of Missouri-Columbia, geology field camp in Lander, Wyoming. We were working in the Wind River mountains also. Jeff Interesting. Another geologist! I recall when were were caravaning around that summer, we came across one or two other field camp groups but I don't recall now which schools were there. Some were really roughing it compared to us. We spent the first approx 6 days traveling between Rapid City SD visiting many sites but staying in hotels along the way while at least one of the other groups we crossed paths with were camping out. Then we we stayed at the field station, we were bunk beds and up early with with our bottles of dilute hydrochloric acid, hand lenses, hammer, note book, jug of water etc. and off we went to learn the sedimentary formations such as the Kootinay sandstone, the Lodgepole formation others, I still have my note pads from that summer. We much of our time in the Tobacoo Root mountains near the field station. I don't know if they still do it, but Indiana University use to run what they called Alumni field camp, which was basically a week long field camp for folks like me who had gone through it at some point in the past and wanted to have basically an academic vacation, and go tour many of the locations we did as students for intellectual fun - of course for a price. |
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Post by mlehman on Aug 10, 2015 15:42:32 GMT -8
SNIP By the way, in Alaska Shemya Island out in the Aleutians was that place "its not the end of the world but you can see it from there" as non-military people could get there and not Attu which was further west. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShemyaSNIP Rick, I'm not sure about civilians on Shemya, unless they happen to be DOD or other government-affiliated civilian employees or contractors. A fellow I used to work with had some interesting tales from the year or two he spent there. Just about everything going on was classified, so suspect that and the lack of transportation other than military flights once civilian airliners no longer needed to fuel there make it a hard place to visit. It's run by a contractor since 1995, so maybe visits are less restricted, though. An interesting website with lots of pics: www.hlswilliwaw.com/aleutians/shemya-homepage.htm |
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Post by dti406 on Aug 10, 2015 16:15:00 GMT -8
Mike,
Our company did a lot of construction work all over the state and that was told to me by one of our project manager's who worked out there, so that is why I assumed it was accessible to more than DOD personnel. I certainly did not get out that far while I was there although because we had the maintenance contract on the pipeline I got to visit all the sites on the pipeline from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez, along with the Red Dog Zinc mine in Northwest Alaska about 100 miles north of Kotzebue.
Rick
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Post by eh49 on Aug 10, 2015 16:15:47 GMT -8
This has really gone astray from the topic of the thread.
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Post by bnsf971 on Aug 10, 2015 16:32:17 GMT -8
This has really gone astray from the topic of the thread. True, but since nobody is complaining about the death of the hobby, wimpy motors, or second generation 6 axle 3000hp EMD locomitves, I'm not going to complain... |
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Post by mlehman on Aug 10, 2015 16:45:23 GMT -8
Mike, Our company did a lot of construction work all over the state and that was told to me by one of our project manager's who worked out there, so that is why I assumed it was accessible to more than DOD personnel. SNIP Rick, I suspect whatever construction project done there was military or "other government agency" related, which would temporarily qualify one for the all-expenses-paid visit... My interest there was in AFTAC Detachment 205/461, as the parent unit is the main topic of my dissertation research. Down the page here: www.hlswilliwaw.com/aleutians/Shemya/html/shemya-page5.htmFor eh49, It would be a good place to have a club layout. Winters are pure heck and the 2 weeks of summer just isn't long enough. Note that humans often don't fit into little boxes as neatly as some prefer. This was really a Crew Lounge topic (non-scale specific) to start with, so it may have been in the wrong place all along. Perhaps someone can help with that to avoid any confusion for you? |
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