Have you created your own Standard Gauge version of the Polar Express train? If you have, please post pictures here of your Standard Gauge Polar Express train.
Bob Nelson
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SORRY, but this whole Polar Express thing has taken on a life of its own for better or worse. 😐 The wonderful and inspired SHORT story has been overblown and distorted into a merchandising steamroller that bespeaks of greed and not the true spirit of Christmas reflected in the original SHORT story. Kind of a contradiction. Call me a Grinch, but I feel the original story is still the best version, without the added commercial embellishments. I rest my case.
Next there will be grownups paying $2,000 for a toy engine. Can you imagine such folly.
The cars are not mine. Regauged by Alan hamil..
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Hello all .....Standard Gauge Berkshires are a bit thin on the ground .....but there is one ...Bob Hendrich ( of Goldstar GG1 fame) built up a Berkshire using a Randall Hudson body .....looks very good in my opinion , Bob was a very talented builder ...check out the Berk in action last year at Trainfest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kIDMq8e2TY
Cheers Carey
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VERY NICE indeed, but more SCALE and much less tinplate. "Whatever floats your boat" applies here. ☺
Tinplate Art posted:VERY NICE indeed, but more SCALE and much less tinplate. "Whatever floats your boat" applies here. ☺
...says the Grinch.
Tinplate Art posted:SORRY, but this whole Polar Express thing has taken on a life of its own for better or worse. 😐 The wonderful and inspired SHORT story has been overblown and distorted into a merchandising steamroller that bespeaks of greed and not the true spirit of Christmas reflected in the original SHORT story. Kind of a contradiction. Call me a Grinch, but I feel the original story is still the best version, without the added commercial embellishments. I rest my case.
BAH HUMBUG!
Bob Nelson
Plus such a RARE custom engine would be out of reach for many of us, if it were ever offered for sale.
Carey Williams posted:Hello all .....Standard Gauge Berkshires are a bit thin on the ground .....but there is one ...Bob Hendrich ( of Goldstar GG1 fame) built up a Berkshire using a Randall Hudson body .....looks very good in my opinion , Bob was a very talented builder ...check out the Berk in action last year at Trainfest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kIDMq8e2TY
Cheers Carey
Carey,
Those are awesome locomotives! Were they ever running during the first six years (2012-2017) when I was SGMA's Trainfest Modulator? Also, to the best of your knowledge, has Bob Hendrich ever made a 4-8-4 Northern like The Milwaukee Road's famous 261?
Bob Nelson
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NAVY SEAL: I very much respect your opinion, but stand by mine. ☺ MERRY CHRISTMAS and waeshal (Anglo Saxon for holiday greeting from which wassail is derived).
FYI: Being a Tom Hanks fan, I did take my grandchildren to the local IMAX when the movie version first came out, and it was fairly entertaining, in spite of the somewhat strange animation employed. I even purchased the initial Polar Express starter set for them. I still believe the wonderful, though sparse, short story with those inspired illustrations is in a league of its own and best conveys the true spirit of Christmas.
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Bob Hendrich ..did not make a Northern that I'm aware of
However Dunseith ...expanded a Randall Hudson boiler to make a Northern ...this is a very big engine .
Trainfest 2017 I brought up a Randall Hudson by Hendrich pulling a string of Randall Pullmans ...made a very impressive set in my book .
Cheers Carey
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Hello all
Bob Hendrich ..did not make a Northern that I'm aware of
However Dunseith ...expanded a Randall Hudson boiler to make a Northern ...this is a very big engine .
Trainfest 2017 I brought up a Randall Hudson by Hendrich pulling a string of Randall Pullmans ...made a very impressive set in my book .
Cheers Carey
Now, THAT is one FINE train set!
Carey Williams posted:Hello all
Bob Hendrich ..did not make a Northern that I'm aware of
However Dunseith ...expanded a Randall Hudson boiler to make a Northern ...this is a very big engine .
Trainfest 2017 I brought up a Randall Hudson by Hendrich pulling a string of Randall Pullmans ...made a very impressive set in my book .
Cheers Carey
I agree Carey! That's a very impressive set!!!
Bob Nelson
