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Hi Mike! Good to see your message. Welcome to the Gauge I do have a Proto 2K Mallet...VGN 737...joined my local HO club so I could buy it!!!LOL I like it a lot, except it's too light , and not much room to add weight...I've put in a little, a lead block in the cab, and some solder fitted in...

"This is Great"!! (name that film time!) I'll get some photos up, eventually...vacation first, then the scanner!!unless we come across a deal we can't pass up in the nexk couple of weeks...(trying to avoid credit except for emergency use...amazing how much "emergent" train stuff there is )...

Hmmmm.. Would the dense styro meat trays work??? I'm washing and saving all ours for future scenery construction (bulkheads for hills and mountains etc.) I don't know if they'd be thin enough... I'll experiment and let you know...one would razor them into strips, and very thinly and faintly...

To Dave Hagen, or moderator: please leave this post up...some new member may show up who knew my Grandaddy. Thanks Lenny ,aka Virginian

Hi y'all! The 'bedroom' is emptier, but still not ready to become a layout room...I'm doing some model building in there, but have one dresser to relocate, the ceiling needs to be painted, the walls washed down, maybe painted, ..carpet cleaned?? etc.,etc.. In the meantime, the 4x8 in the 'shop'...

Glad to see your message, shamus. Are you 'back on board', or is this a one 'night stand'?!!? Read ya then, my friend! VGN

Hi there Jason I don't belong to an N club...my club is HO, but my home layout is N. I've been thinking about an informal N scale "club" myself. I would think the first step is to talk to any N scalers you know and see if anyone else would be interested. You could ask to post a notice in your...

Well, friend. we have your photos and articles in the academy, but how will we muggle along with out your wizardly modeling advice?? I will miss your posts here, and our email correspondence. I hope we might exchange a letter now and then. All the best to you, and God Bless. Lenny

when who should board but, amongst a whole crowd of relatives, Prof. Albert Einstein, carrying his... [This message has been edited by Virginian (edited 06-23-2001).]

Hey Dave Hagen!! Somebody's computer timepiece 'sprung a gear'! Check the "Time Posted" on the General Talk heading!!, and this post as well as Lance's just below. hm, let's see looks like we lost a couple of hours somewhere. HEH,HEH!!I'm writing at 5:14P.M. PDT for a point of reference. I hope...

I think that's a great idea, Lance, and since I'm modeling the Mountains of W.VA. and Va., very fitting. I expect it will most likly be a curve or grade!!...I might designate the X crossing in the center of my interum layout the TK xing. Thanks for the idea VGN

Wow! Dave, Are you laying over for the NMRA convention in early July?? One of my friends at SCMRS is all excited about taking Amtrak to St. Louis for that bash!!!! Too bad they're not just a little closer together. wish I was free to travel...I'd go ahead and join both orgs. and hit the...

I'm shocked and sad. I looked forward to maybe meeting Tim on my next visit "home" to Virginia. My prayers go out to his family, esp. the little ones he so recently visited with. God Bless you all. Lenny, grandson of another God fearing, 'coal haulin' engineer,who's now with the Good Lord...

Hi Dave I have plans to join NRHS sometime in the future.(N&WHS comes first!) I'd think I'd like a convention of "Train Nuts" where is your 'meet' this year?? and Next?? Hope you have a good time VGN [This message has been edited by Virginian (edited 06-14-2001).]

I almost know the feeling, Woodie I was in Roanoke,Va. in late March of '87 when the last excursions of N&W #1218 A and 611 J were running in tandem, and side by side!!!!(The J is retired to the Transportation Museum there, may never run again , and the 1218...may become the center piece of the...

Hey, great lookin' "donkeys" . Scratch built!!!??? What in th' world to ya need manufatured for???? Hmmm...not enough time in a day...???? How long did the covered one take to build? Looks very 'proto' to me. Oh, I just remembered where I saw a real one...outside the Georgia Pacific Mill in...

Hi y'all I'm seeking info. re: Pacific Fast Mail, specifically, brass HO model of N&W Class A locomotives. Any help?? Virginian

Hi y'all I've just discoverd a photo (in an old modeling book I've had since Feb.,FCOL!!) of a beautiful model of a 2-6-6-4 class A Does anyone know anything about "United model from Pacific Fast Mail" manufactured sometime before 1964 .Are they still in business? The book is"The Complete...

Hi Tim Good story...great moral...thanks for both. VGN

Hi shamus We'll be making our own trees, sometime next year..(I'll be usin' your article)...for the club layout, once we relocate, but we will need houndreds, eventually. It looks like Andy's got the 'first option. Keep me posted. I'll be looking around for some donkeys for you, one way or...