Gus, THANK YOU!:mrgreen:
As for the powered trucks in the areotrain, i am pretty sure the front truck is the only powered one, but I'll check this weekend on the rear, i left it at dads last Saturday.
Zachary, THANKS!:mrgreen:
The Y3 is a Proto 2000 Heritage engine, nice detailing, runs pretty good, though every now and then the pony trucks will jump the rails, but its intermittent, some days it runs fine, others, it gives me grief.
**a note on MY steamers, i cant stress enough how FANTASTIC my Athearn Big Boy & Challengers are:thumb: , those engines NEVER, EVER, have gave me ANY problems:winki::mrgreen: , they are NOT picky about the track work, and have been 110% reliable in EVERY aspect of running, awesome detailing too. if i were to recommend a LARGE steamer to anyone, it would by far be one of Athearns:thumb: .
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ON MY SIDE OF THE TRACKS...
Well, i got off at 8 hours today:mrgreen: , i had my camera with me and decided to head over to ICE's west yard, since its less then 2miles from work. i guess it pays for me to complain:119: , let me explain, remember in my last post i was complaining that ICE never changes their engines out in the yard, well, they made a liar out of me today, i seen two engines in the yard that were a long way from home, so i got some shots of them(pics below). seeing those two engines here made me wonder, where are the home engines("City of S.Beloit" & "City of Janesville") at?
Anyways, i know i post quite a bit of WSOR, so i figured some shots of another local shortline(ICE) might be a nice change:thumb: .
I also took a pic of Beloit's "Memorial" to Fairbanks-Morse, i see this 5-6 days a week as its only about 400' from my back door at work. Here's the story, the engine on top of the bridge is a fiberglass replica of the VERY FIRST FM engine EVER MADE, its an H10-44 and it was sold to the Milwaukee Road, #760. the REAL #760 is still running, and resides at the IRM:thumb: . see the bridge, notice the "bike path" there, well thats built right on top of the CNW line that ran right behind my work, then it went over the river(your seeing it), and less then a block away it ran right into Fairbanks-Morse...funny how the Milwaukee Road engine is sitting on a CNW bridge:119: . Just thought it would be kinda neat to post this pic:winki: .
Till next time...stay on track!
:deano: -Deano