Awesome, Doc!
Thomas and the Isle of Sodor have an almost Cult following, you wouldnt believe the amount of information the good Reverend provided in the old books. Not to mention that every engine in the stories (and most of the stories!) had a real counterpart prototype! Check this site out.
There's even a narrow gauge line, and some "forest" operations, logging to you and me
Henry would look very appropriate hauling a string of logs, believe it or not. :thumb:
Both #1 and #2 sons were into Thomas big time. I have a Bachman Thomas @ the club, permanently coupled to Clarabelle, with extra electrical pickups on Clarabelle, and a decoder in there as well. The pickups are kind of stiff and it is all Thomas can do to pull Clarabelle, but it is a very big hit with the kids when we have an open house. I usually spend most of my time at open houses putting a throttle in a kids hand, and teaching them how to run Thomas.
They make some sound systems you can load custon files into, and it would be a lot of fun to load one of those up with his theme song, and some other sounds , possibly some phrases, it could be a whole lot of fun
Hi Bill,
I will miss choo choo club tomm. as we have our monthly meeting of the Immaculate Conception Haiti team at the same time.
Sorry I was looking forward to slapping some paint on the road bed for the new J E Patterson sawmill complex.
Dr Tom
Wow... I haven't really been paying close attention to this thread lately, but I must say that your projects are looking amazing Doc... Keep up the great work, and I'm going to have to keep a closer eye on this thread for sure!
hunting around my massive pikes of stuff I found 6 unbuilt MDC shorty flats.
I am going to build these as C&S log cars complete with Barnhardt rails and bark debris (peat moss run through the blender). These will be routed via the Tab on car system to the southern interchange in Harlow. this will increase the log traffic on the valley division, and keep the C & S reporting marks alive in interchange service.
Bill Nelson