so tom has a rollscanhardly rolls down one canhardly make it up the next.
emmet d
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--- In yardbirdtrains@..., Tom Knowles wrote:
Yeah Chuck, this IS the pusher district. Chuck knows what he's talking
about, he's seen the '87 BMW I drive everywhere that has 320Kmi + on it.
Not exactly a Tennessee hill and country moonshiner car....
Stamina or no, I'm going over to a fellow's house today to continue
assisting his Model pike build: a decent replica of the pusher district
and "Mountain Goat" branch line near here, backdated to about 1950. All
the tracks through Cowan downtown will be exactly as they were
then....11 of the 17 original yard tracks are being represented. . All
this in a 30 X30 room with a helix in a closet. Gonna be nice!
He bought a set of Labelle coaches for me to build. A modern take from
Labelle on the old-time craftsman style wooden cars, made in ood of all
things. The kits look amazing, excellent milling. Right now, I am
concentrating on a kit-bash of the Walthers cement plant as a model to
fit his space of the former Cumberland Portland Cement plant that was
here 'till 1980. Can't build a model of Cowan without that imposing
structure looming in the background. He bought the new Bachmann 45
tonner GE with siderods. like the Whitcomb that used to switch that
plant. Surprisingly, the 45 tonner is a smaller model than the 44
tonner, This one is a real deal having DCC already installed for $60!
Looks like Basset Hound snuffling along with its nose to the ground. Too
bad the horn isn't a Hound's "bay". That would complete the illusion.
Tom Knowles
On 1/7/2013 9:30 PM, lnnrr wrote:
Henry, Tom would have a lot more of that stamina stuff left if
he drove something he didn't have to push up those Tennessee
hills. I just figure he's been on that Cowan turn so long
he thinks it's natural to push everything uphill just like the
railroad did.
Chuckles
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, "Long95209" wrote:
forget stamina for now ! Your wry sense of humor is ba''ak !
Henry
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