Nice ! Good luck, John
Miggy posted:"when you realize that you are not getting any ups delivery today, and they stop to see if you are still o.k. anyway."
Miggy... true story ... we live about 1/4 mile of the hard road, in fact I have to tip the mail man real good at Christmas to keep parcels coming to the house so I don't have to got get them at the post office. I work from the house, so I'm here most the time. any way, I was buying so many trains at one time, the mail man had gotten so used to just coming to the house, and I wondered one day, whys he coming up here? I don't have anything showing out for delivery? He even got out of the truck and opened the back roll up door and was rummaging around the parcels in there looking puzzled..., and I went out side and he says...... Holly S..t !! Ive been so used to coming up here I just assumed you had packages today as usual.... LOL
If you live in Churchill and hear the Union Railroad Switcher Engine, on the Turtle Creek Trestle giving signal Blasts at 2:00 AM on the Engine Whistle, while Switching Rolling Stock, and know what those signal Blasts actually mean. Then answering the signal Blasts, with I hear ya Uncle John, cause the memories are that vivid.
Taught to me by my Uncle John Parker - Superintendent of the Union Railroad, when I was 10 years old, the URR memories have lasted a life time. Sleep well sir, your Trains still run, every day, and every night.
Thank you sir for the incredible memories,
PCRR/Dave
I already have a new Ram Laramie! They never said you could get those decals! LOL
OMG I want a Truck with stripes like THAT, mom!
I might be be a Train but when I am helping my neighbors clean up storm damage and will picking up branches , I think to myself, I bet if I cut those into little logs, they would fit an my Menards new log hauling flat car instead of plastic ones....
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I saw this a couple of years ago at the Rochelle, IL railpark.
Lose the cap and it would look like a small GG1. Maybe throw a pantograph on top. How about one of those knuckle couplers for the hitch receiver. Heck, put one on the front bumper, too. And a big honking air horn. OMG! I DO have a problem!
Tom
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Scrapiron Scher posted:There are two pantographs on either end of your roof and only one is up at a time.
You beat me to it. They just scrapped the AEM7s, there has to be some Brecknell-Willis pans hanging around in Wilmington somewhere.
...if you have more trains in your kitchen than dishes!
ROFL good one! <salute> 
If you name your son Lionel Jr. but your name isn't Lionel
Tom Densel posted:I saw this a couple of years ago at the Rochelle, IL railpark.
Lose the cap and it would look like a small GG1. Maybe throw a pantograph on top. How about one of those knuckle couplers for the hitch receiver. Heck, put one on the front bumper, too. And a big honking air horn.
As a kid, every time I looked at one of those 70s-style vans (we had one), I always thought of having one as an adult with the driver/passenger doors sealed shut, the radiator grilled plated over with louvers, and number boards and a headlight mounted in the center of the nose, painted up as an F unit.
