Scott, THANK YOU:mrgreen: , for the VERY KIND complements:smilie: .
Wayne, THANK YOU!, :worship: , REALLY, if it wasn't for you, the photo shoot wouldn't have been possible:winki::smilie: , and i agree, your models couldn't have went to two better homes:thumb: , THANK YOU SO MUCH WAYNE:worship: .
nutbar, THANKS for posting the head end cars that went with the River Wind:thumb: . as you well know nutbar, we are BAR NONE, two of the luckiest guys around:winki: ,
we are so fortunate to be such good friends of Wayne's:winki::smilie: .
SPECIAL THANK YOU TO NUTBAR...
I want to give nutbar a SPECIAL THANKS!, for the UP calender he put in the last package i got from Wayne. nutbar, i have always liked the ice breakers on engines, but never seen any on a UP engine, TILL I SEEN THE UP CALENDER YOU SENT ME:eeki::mrgreen: , now i can prototypically put one on a UP GP40:thumb::mrgreen:
STEVE!:mrgreen: , THANK YOU for your very kind comments:mrgreen::mrgreen: .
Gus, THANK YOU!:mrgreen::mrgreen::smilie:
Kurt, you are right, that train IS the pride of the RVRRM:thumb::mrgreen: , but honestly, though i Cherish EACH AND EVERY ONE of the models i have bought from Wayne:worship: , the one that tops them ALL, even my Gas Turbine:eeki: , is #501:thumb::mrgreen: . (PIC BELOW:winki: )
From the moment i seen #501 i feel in love with it:mrgreen: , out of ALL of Wayne's SLAP FANTASTIC engines, i ALWAYS thought that was the most AWESOME engine of his WHOLE FLEET:winki: , i cant even describe how i felt when Wayne offered it to me:eeki: , TRULY A DREAM COME TRUE:thumb::mrgreen::mrgreen: .
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ON MY SIDE OF THE TRACKS...
Well, its Saturday, so of coarse i went to dads today:mrgreen: . after seeing the last roll-by i posted, dad decided to get out his northern pacific passenger train. the engine is an FM CFA, and the four cars are all Riverossi. we couldn't find the running CFA, only the dummy, so we put an NP F7 from an athearn NP passenger train that dad has on it to use it as the powered engine:winki: . i DCC'ed the NP F7, but no sound
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ops: . one of the riverossi cars still had repeido couplers on it
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ops: , so we decided to head to the hobby shop in Janesville for conversion couplers.
On the way to the hobby shop dad asked if i seen or herd about the NEWLY PAINTED WSOR ENGINE, it has the state of Wisconsin on it, i herd nothing about it, and asked dad where it was, he didn't know where the pic was taken, we figured it was at the WSOR paint shop up in Horicon.
as we passed WSOR's roundhouse i looked over at the engine yard, pretty bare, not much there:frowns: , i figured we wouldn't even stop in, not much sense in it since it was so barren:frowns: .
After we made our purchases at the hobby shop, we went out to the car, low and behold a WSOR train was going over the bridge right next to the hobby shop:mrgreen: . those tracks are owned by UP, but WSOR uses them too. the engine on the point was #4008, AWESOME!:mrgreen: , i have the model of this engine, and have never got a pic of it, its NOT a good pic, but still, i now have a pic of it:thumb: . (pics below)
i was quite surprised to see so many cylinder hoppers, they are common for Canadian roads, but not so much for these parts, looks like WSOR bought a few used ones.
Poor dad, you guys know i made him chase that train so we could get more shots:119: . ends up it passed right through WSOR's yard, it was headed to Chicago. well, we were in WSOR's freight yard and another train passed, full of fallen flag cars:eeki: , I'll post those pics in the "fallen flag" thread tomorrow:thumb: . (one teaser pic of an MKT below:thumb: )
OK, HERE'S THE GOOD PART...
As we were about to leave WSOR's freight yard, i quickly looked over and scanned the engine yard again, what was there?
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, WHY IT WAS THE WSOR ENGINE WITH THE STATE OF WIS. ON IT THAT DAD HAD MENTIONED ON THE TRIP UP THERE:eeki::eeki::eeki: . "DAD, DAD, QUICK, PULL IN THERE!! " :eeki: THERE IT WAS:eeki: , and it was coupled up to WSOR's most FAMOUS engine, #4025!:mrgreen: , now how COOL is that:thumb: . as we pull into the engine yard i notice the # on the NEW engine, it was #4053.
"Deano, so what if its #4053:roller: , whats the big deal? "
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, I'LL tell you what the big deal is, i took a picture of #4053 LAST SUMMER AS A UP ENGINE!:eeki::mrgreen: , THATS RIGHT, YET ANOTHER BEFORE/AFTER SHOT of an engine that i have:mrgreen: . (pics of both BEFORE and AFTER below:mrgreen: )
OK, now SOMEONE PLEASE dub me the "KING OF BEFORE AND AFTER SHOTS":mrgreen: . those that have followed this thread from the start know why i ask:winki: , for those of you NEW to this thread, if you follow this thread you will find SEVERAL UP engines that i have taken before and after shots of, CNW, SP, and Rio Grandes, all BEFORE they were painted in UP colors, and AFTER they were painted in UP colors:thumb::mrgreen: , AND...i have posted SEVERAL WSOR engines that were from assorted roads, mostly UP, BEFORE and AFTER shots:thumb::mrgreen: . NOT BRAGGING AT ALL FOLKS:cry: , just stating the facts:toug::mrgreen: .
SHEEW!! , all that was exciting:mrgreen: , hang on, i need a coffee and cigarette after that:119: ...OK, we got back to dads, and got his Riverossi NP passenger train going. i will try and post a roll-by of it next weekend:thumb: . that will be for Steve:winki::mrgreen: .
Till next time...Stay on track!:winki:
#4053 BEFORE SHOT I TOOK LAST SUMMER:mrgreen:
#4053 AFTER SHOT I TOOK TODAY!:mrgreen: