Recent content by geep15

Just so folks will recognize me, look for a guy with a salt-and-pepper goatee wearing a gray Oklahoma State baseball cab (the OSU logo will be in orange) and wearing glasses. Hope to see you folks there! BTW, I don't know about west Texas, but I drive a lot of two-lane highways, esp. on...

Rich and Mike, I was one of the folks commenting on the prices of the cars as well. Not for ONE MINUTE would I criticize the work- it's very nicely done, and I've gotten ideas on how to weather my own freight cars. (For the record, I use the drybrush method and powdered weathering chalk, both...

Thanks for the heads-up!:thumb:

Living just 40 miles up the road from Plano, I have the weekend off, and am planning to go as well. IIRC, you're traveling a long way from Cheyenne to the Metrosprawl via WF.............keep 'er between the ditches, watch out for the smalltown speedtraps (esp. if you're traveling on US 287 from...

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM TEXAS!!!!! Gee, I miss Wyoming in the winter................especially in the Platte River Valley around Saratoga...............closest we ever get to lots of white stuff would be if the flour mill here in town blew up.:p

Looks good to me! Can't wait to see the finished product. :thumb: :D

Love ya Blue! I haven't seen too many MP layouts, so this one really springs out. I like it!!!! And not ONE Armour Yellow diesel in sight.....:D :p

Don't wait too long- they'll be gone if you're not careful! WallyWorld has that habit:rolleyes:

WHat bothers me about the moves by UP is not so much their desire to protect their tradmark (which is their right, same as any other company, be it large or small), but their insistence of including ALL the fallen-flag logos (the CNW and its merger partners, the MKT, the DRGW, the SP and Cotton...

IIRC, the articles in MR (and even Trains) were wordier back then. The argument could be made that the magazines have been "dumbed down" over time. Personally, I think that Kalmbach is leaning on ads more & more- which makes sense, as advertisement equals revenue for any magazine. The Atlas...

Here's a pic of another favorite loco of mine- the Alco RS1. This baby was the plant switcher at the Nekoosa paper mill in Ashdown, AR.

Wal*Mart has the Athearn John Deere train set. It has an F7, boxcar, flat, tank car, and bay window caboose, all in JD colors. There are also two Model B tractors in the set. Looks like all the cars & diesel have Kadee-compatible couplers, and it comes with a power pack and modular track. It...

Cool tools! Do you do loan-outs? :D :D :D :D Seriously.....now that you have the tools to build, git to gittin'!

I forgot to mention it's much friendlier than some fora (is that a word?) I've seen. I include it in my list of places to visit, and would recommend it to most anybody.

OK, you went & did it- showed a pic of my favorite electric motor- a GG1! Why, we even have a GG1 in Texas (at the Age of Steam Museum in Dallas- painted in Pennsy Brunswick green, no less).:thumb: