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    Come on back to the caboose and get a cup of coffee [or sweet ice tea] Part IV

    its not "overbid" if someone is willing to pay that.........lol like when i was into baseball cards,,, people would ask why i want more then what the price guide says it was worth, or why did i pay more then what the guide says its worth,,,,, the price guide dont set the prices, the buyers...
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    Come on back to the caboose and get a cup of coffee [or sweet ice tea] Part IV

    sir james, what marx do you want,,,? i have some tin plate stuff that i would part with,
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    Come on back to the caboose and get a cup of coffee [or sweet ice tea] Part IV

    lol ya,,, if i leave right now i can be there in 36 to 48 hours........lol
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    Come on back to the caboose and get a cup of coffee [or sweet ice tea] Part IV

    cold and windy here, i think every school in the state of iowa got out early today.
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    Come on back to the caboose and get a cup of coffee [or sweet ice tea] Part IV

    im going to vote for and operational yard, the track and switches would cost a lot, no one member is going to want to pay for all that and a modular table. that and i would like to add DCS or tmcc or both.
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    Come on back to the caboose and get a cup of coffee [or sweet ice tea] Part IV

    well i just found out today that our club was given a check for 1000.00 to be spent on the O-scale layout, and the O- scale layout only. the couple cave us the money as asked not to be named, so only the club member who was given the check knows who it was i guess. oh man,,,, i guess the HO...
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    hopper size?

    i guess i have never known anything but grain or beans to be carried in hoppers,
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    Come on back to the caboose and get a cup of coffee [or sweet ice tea] Part IV

    2:47 am here, cant sleep, im bug eyed awake, cant run trains now as i would wake up the wife. nothing on tv.c its better that i stay off ebay....lol big uproar at train club, a member pulled out 3 of his modulars in the ho layout, this was an founding member and former president. he said the...
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    Gondola's?

    i have a gondola with a junk load on my layout now,,, going to get a few more and have a scrap train , have it unload at a recycling center.
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    hopper size?

    i would think that 2 , 2 bay cars would cost more to make/buy/ upkeep then 1 4 bay car?.......... if you have 2 two bay cars you have to buy and maintain twice as many wheels/trucks, and couplers. and twice as many "end sides" meaning that much more steel is needed. the 4 bay you still only...
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    hopper size?

    what is the reason for the different hopper sizes? 2,3 and 4 bay hoppers? is it just that the cars got bigger when the trains/power got bigger? why would they use a 2 bay hopper when a 4 bay can hold twice as much? and are there anything besides grain carried in them?
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    Come on back to the caboose and get a cup of coffee [or sweet ice tea] Part IV

    wow, i did not even know i hit 1000 until you pointed it out...lol
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    Come on back to the caboose and get a cup of coffee [or sweet ice tea] Part IV

    woohoo, the wife will let me go to train club on monday night....lol
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    Come on back to the caboose and get a cup of coffee [or sweet ice tea] Part IV

    well im up and moving here again. seems im only sore after sleeping or just laying down awhile, after im up and moving the pain goes away.
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    Come on back to the caboose and get a cup of coffee [or sweet ice tea] Part IV

    lol i want to drive the 60 miles to train club today,, buy the wife is fighting me on it.
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    Come on back to the caboose and get a cup of coffee [or sweet ice tea] Part IV

    got up here, at 6:30am, had to pee, going up and down stairs is not fun, needed a rest before i go back up so i logged on here. pain is worse, i think the iv pain killers from the hospital have run there course, so took some more of the pills they gave me. im on a 10 pound limit so much for...
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    Come on back to the caboose and get a cup of coffee [or sweet ice tea] Part IV

    8:30 pm,,, i just walked in the door. surgery lasted an hour, everything went good, had a small leak in my lung after they closed my lung up so i had to stay there a few hours longer then planned. leak healed its self in that time tho. pain not to bad, but im loopy right now anyway....lol
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    Come on back to the caboose and get a cup of coffee [or sweet ice tea] Part IV

    well im up and around, cant stay long, got to get ready and be out the door by 6:00am to drive to iowa city to be checked in for surgery by 8am. see ya when im back home.
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    Mth & Ho?

    i guess they been in it a few years, i have not seen any of there ho stuff, but in the 2008 o-scale book they show an new ho engine they are coming out with,,, i like it,, high dollar tho for an HO,
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    Come on back to the caboose and get a cup of coffee [or sweet ice tea] Part IV

    long night, but im still alive, the "boss" has not shot me yet. (see o-scale forum on new layout im doing) brutus, i picked up rambo II yesterday for 5.00. i want to see the new one but if i get the new dvd when it comes out i decided i better upgrade the others before it to dvd, i have them...