His model of the Daylight is painted with real sunlight.
Santa Fe's El Capitan was never promoted to a Major, and only he knows why.
When the Tom Thumb slowed down in its race against a horse, it was really to let him cross the track.
He makes the Stourbridge Lion look like a kitten.
He got his new Legacy system several months before the squirrel got his.
Great thread!
Railroad employees foam when he drives Past their trains.
Here you go, Bob.
Where on earth did this come from?!? Not LIFE magazine I'll wager.
Anyway if I could double like a post and thread, this would be it.
The only downside is she seems to be running 2-rail.
He once got the Santa Fe to paint their locomotives in a Kodachrome paint scheme on a dare.
His Big Boys, all road numbers, were delivered and prepped by Mike Reagan.
And he got every number from 4000 to 4024
Once he put together a Plasticville community, today it is a suburb of Baltimore.
ROTFL!!!
Stop it...Stop it!! You're killing me!!
Great thread!
He piloted the Wabash Cannonball
When it was just a BB
Little known, but he lent his guitar to Neil Young for the lead in the song Down by the River and was asked to sing background vocals, but had to decline due to an earlier commitment to give voice lessons and guidance to Pavarotti at the beginning of his uncertain, but promising career.
Trains stop at grade crossings, for him to pass by.
He has 5,000 locomotives, and no shelf queens.
His model railroad has been declared a national historic site.
He caused a derailment on his layout, just tp see if they actually do.
His layout assembles itself.
All of his engines are command control and run on their own out of respect.
His backyard layout is the Union Pacific. Yes, THE Union Pacific.
They have attempted to recreate his cologne, in a smoke fluid scent.
National Standard Railroad time synchronizes with his wristwatch.
He once was asked by Raymond Loewy to consult him on the interior design of his penthouse condo, who then used the unique shape of the stovetop hood as inspiration for the design of the GG1.
When he says All Aboard!
You better get your butt aboard!
He doesn't model in 1:48 scale , he models in 48:1 scale. His Bigboy is really big.....DaveB
This thread, while entertaining, is going to go the way of "My New Track Pin"...
The TCS pays him to sponsor a Brick
His York Badge is always 00,001
He has more Erie Lackawanna engines than Ben Fioriello
He has more Forum posts than Gunrunner John
The Arttista beach girls are modeled after the girls in little black book
He uses Legacy and DCS to control his LIMO
He once took a ride on the Reading to play Monopoly.
His operating sessions include the BNSF, UP, CSX and NS railroads.
His tankers are full of Dos Equis.
Don
He has 101 engines on his Legacy roster
Walter M. Matuch
He doesn't need a Cab-2 or iPad, for that matter....his trains KNOW what HE wants them to do.
When asked why his layout has no sidings, he pointed to his black eye and replied, "I would rather fight than switch!".
Even the dummies he runs are more intelligent than your honor student.
Helper engines on his layout are compensated handsomely.
Every time the Pennsy said they were "The Standard Railroad of the World", he got a royalty.
Sine waves from his AC transformers inspired the "Sunset" motif at Radio City
The Rockettes' choreography is based on switching moves by his crews.
The Rockettes' high kicks are actually his conductors' highballs
Threads in his suits guided Central Pacific surveyors through the Sierras; CP surveyors through the Rockies; and John Allen as he built bridges on the Gorre & Daphetid
The name Glacier Express comes from ice cubes in his beverages
His shoelaces provided the pattern for the CP Spiral Tunnels.
Boats loaded with his shipping containers are shipped in their own shipping containers.
E. F. Hutton listens to him
Grand Central Terminal is a much-simplified model of his garage, scaled down for available space.
He paints pictures of Angela Trotta Thomas.
Here you go, Bob.
Where on earth did this come from?!? Not LIFE magazine I'll wager.
Anyway if I could double like a post and thread, this would be it.
The only downside is she seems to be running 2-rail.
Rails, what rails? I don't see no rails.
Richie
Here you go, Bob.
Where on earth did this come from?!? Not LIFE magazine I'll wager.
Anyway if I could double like a post and thread, this would be it.
The only downside is she seems to be running 2-rail.
Downside!?!? Now you're seeing which girls preferred American Flyer S Gauge!
Mark
There's too much "Daylight" between those rails, even for me.
I thought of these on a whim:
His choices are so good that locomotive manufactures ask him "what's next."
During special events his locomotive is the headliner.
He once complained that the Big Boy was too small for him.
He runs a real locomotive whenever he feels like it.
Lionel, MTH, Atlas, and Weaver ask him if their models are accurate.
He is the only man to use the OCS train for his personal use.
The Railroads pay him to run a special on their line.
When he is on the mainline, he always gets the right of way.
How about this:
He actually drove THE Golden Spike linking the Central Pacific with the Union Pacific and he is the only living survivor of the Last Train to Paradise in the Labor Day storm of 1935 in the Florida Keys where the train went into the ocean!
When he is on the wrong side of the track it is the right side of the track and vice-versa.
This is a great post but I have to wonder "more post than gunrunner?" this must be a formidable character and a "BAMA Fan"
Brent
Where's the caboose? Oh, never mind.....I see it!
He moderates Rich Melvin's posts.
He moderates Rich Melvin's posts.
Stealing from Marty's train of thought...
At one time, he had more jobs in railroading than Rich Melvin
Then he discovered girls
Only he and George Brown really know what a ferroquine audiophile really is
And they have sworn a blood oath never to tell
He moderates Rich Melvin's posts.
This may be the best one yet! Rich can't possibly end this one now, he will be laughing too hard to hit the delete key...
Is this a good spot for the hump yard?
Is this a good spot for the hump yard?
How many of you have noticed that most of the items appear to be Lionel, yet the track is 2-rail? C'mon, I know somebody besides me noticed.
what track?
I'll bet Cone Mills made the denim. Right, Dewey?
Is this a good spot for the hump yard?
How many of you have noticed that most of the items appear to be Lionel, yet the track is 2-rail? C'mon, I know somebody besides me noticed.
SAD!!!
And?
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