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well im home from shopping with the old lady......lol that was "fun" thinking about going up stairs to run trains but i think im to lazy to walk up there...lol i need to tho, its cheaper the surfing ebay. i think i sure started a ruckus on the other forum, not that i did anything wrong, but i...

well, i got up to see it snowing here again,,, i really hate snow....GRRR. the boy had a buddy stay the night here, they was up until 1:30 am and they still beat me up.

my little town has been restoring the CB&Q depot here, i think they need a caboose or some other cool car to set by the depot. this is a small town will little money,,,,, is there any grants out there that would help pay for a rail car? i know some grants pay for some silly a** things...

well, doc just called, biopsy back, it was cancer, but they did remove it all so thats good. N gauger , i will try to get pics sometime today. i just got done clearing the snow from every mile....(ok foot) of my track.....lol

WOOOOHOOOOO, THE MAIL CAME! THE MAIL CAME!........ I got my rotary snow plow today!....lol

in the towm down the road from me (Bloomfield , IA) someone has a santa fe caboose in there yard. looking in great shape, i dont know who has it or what it looks like in the inside, but you sure can see it from the street. been there for as long as i can remember.

the things i miss out on for being a "young buck" lol, i just barely remember cabooses . only passenger trains i ever seen was Amtrak, never seen a rail car that said "US MAIL" on it.

this is just great!!!!!! its snowing here again.......

well i am up but not moving much, i could not sleep last night so i was online looking at all of MTH's old catalogs , i have 2 pages of item numbers out of the last 10 years of MTH books that im going to track down and buy when i can. i just ordered 2 MTH rock island corrugated auto carriers...

i cant get on as well

wow, they did have them,!,,, im . i did not know one way or the other, as in 1980 i was only 2 years old...lol i really like these cars, i have 3 ordered from mth, in other road name. now i will have to find the rock island ones. its funny tho, my favorite paint scheme for rock island is the...

heres a nice M10005 , but way to much $$$$ me to bid. MARX 30's DEALER ONLY STORE DISPLAY SET M10005 BOXED - eBay (item 230216254335 end time Jan-30-08 18:29:28 PST)

i know they did ship cars in box cars at one time but i dont know what years the RR's did that, i think there was 2 different types of box cars used.

so the car in the pic would not of been seen in the rock island road name..... The Rock Island entered its third and final bankruptcy in 1975, and despite the best efforts of management and trustee, and the flashy new blue and white "Rock" image, the company could not survive. The railroad was...

ok guys,,, now with all this talk about marx,,, you guys got me looking at them on ebay again.... wall1 how did i go from selling to buying more in a matter of a few hours??????

wow

oh know, getting rid of trains or motorcycles to keep a woman is a big NO NO! lol if it came to the bike or my old lady,,,,, well lets just say i will miss the old lady!....lol but the bike stays...lol but if you really want to give up yout trains to keep your wife.... you can just give...

two suggestions for you...... 1. find a new wife.........! 2. move the old one out and new one and tv in when shes gone. and hope you dont have to look for a new wife when she gets home........sign1

when did they start showing up on the rails? and did the rock island really have any?

do you have an marx M10005? im trying to get out of the marx and pre and post war lionel,,, trying to get down to collecting one type of train....lol but i really like the m10005, id still go buy one of them if i could get my hands on one, but it seems there is always someone that...