Business Trains.
UP has one, BNSF has one. CSX has one. NS has one.
Conrail HAD one.
The Central New England is getting one.

Someone from work gave me this old Athearn F7 shell. He just wanted the drive. I had a drive, with a chewed up shell.
The paint job on this was pretty bad. Lettering and color seperation was horrendous. At first I was going to improve the paint and replace the lettering with decals. Then I decided to make this the power for abusiness train.

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I listed a few more Walthers Cornerstone Buildings on e-bay. all 3 of which have been either kitbashed or custom details added.... If your interested, check them out HERE

went to conpitt and then cresson, pa. this past friday to try out my new digital camera. weather was awsome and there were a lot of trains running too.



todd

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It has come to my attention that a friend of ours who went by the name Spurline over at Zealot has recently passed away. His grandson posted notice over there and is apparently interested in taking up the mantle of the hobby his grandfather loved. A nice tribute. Our condolences to his family.

Ralph

I just tried to send a PM and it is in my outbox, but says it was sent, even though it is still in the outbox and not in the sent items.
This is the first time this has happened, I have sent a few PMs before. Would it have anything to do with my computer being the right time and the forum hasn't come up to Daylight time yet?
Charlie

So it's a bit complicated that some have changed their name from the "other" forum, just wanted to make sure I wouldn't end up talking to the same person but not knowing it on another rr forum.

My name is the same

Hi guys...

Went to a hobby store yesterday and the owner was trying (nicely) to get me to buy a TCS Decoder rather than a Digitrax decoder to go with my Digitrax Zephyr. Now, I'm still very new to the world of decoders, but it started me wondering if there was a big difference between brands. Maybe that particular retailer did more TCS business, I don't really know. But is there a significant difference in decoder brands? I have the Zephyr and thought maybe it was best to stick with the same family of decoders for all my diesels I plan to convert. But do I really need to...or would any other brand due just as well?

We've been using the Chat Room for a while now.. A few of us think it's time to set up a "Formal" Chat night... (Thanks LiveSteamer)

It seems that most of us are able to get in there on Sunday nights, from 10 - 11 PM Eastern Time so we'll start with that...

Everyone that would like to chat with each other "real time" try to be there.. If you can't make it Sunday nights, A few of us are oline most every night at the same times...

The doubleheaders are having their drive-yourself home layout tour again this year on March 28.
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This is a major event. There is a large number of layouts open; in fact, you cannot see all of them in one day if you want to do justice to them.
The registration is in Hespeler. The cities involved are Kitchener-Waterloo, Guelph and Cambridge, but also go out to Aberfoyle, Baden and St Jacobs.
Lots of Canadian trains but also the major US lines, British and some years European. Master modellers and Tinplate rails, Lego and Thomas.

(Warning: the maps they sell you are not the best -- you might want to obtain some commercial maps!)

(I can't go this year -- scheduling conflict.)

I started disliking NS, and it pushed me further when I got forced out of taking pictures of a NS rail yard because this guy said I should be taking pictures of tanker cars . well that was enough for me so NS... get out of my collection!

My one and only NS object, Athearn GP50 powered. Say hello to the shell, with his new replacement right behind him!



This Conrail GP40-2 shell I picked up looks great on the chassis






PS: I would like to thank the jerk who works at norfolk southern for getting them expelled from my hobby.