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A mole tale (3) After the civil war, in the late 40's, the buses and truck competition was starting to take its toll, and the "Topo" sister companies (the Irun and the Hernani tramways) were eating all the profits that the little mole was still making, dragging the “mole” down with them. To...

A mole tale (2) It started in the Amara station (a San Sebastian suburb), from there it served also the urban center of San Sebastian by partaging the tracks with the Hernani tramway); passed thru Loyola and the busy portuary city of Pasajes; then Renteria and Oyarzun; arrived to my home city...

A mole tale: The history of a little RR In 1890, Mr. Manuel Martí -a wealth businessman-, obtained the concession for building a RR between Hendaya and Elgoibar. Soon, he sold the rights of the San Sebastian-Elgoibar branch and retained (for speculative purposes) the rights of the main line...

Vic, I just have read the post. I must have missed it before. Rest assured that my thoughts and prayers are for you both.

Je, Je, Je... Well, YOU have asked for it... :D and Interurben have kindly offered to proof-read it, so I will put in the "Real Thing" section an extended history of the little "Topo", with more old pictures (mostly around the 50's).

Happy Birthday, friend!

I'm a bit late, but Happy Birthday to all of you, friends!

Well, nice thread. :) The city where I lives -Irun- is just in the border ("frontera", in spanish) with France. It and its sister french city -Hendaye- are 20 kilometers apart from the province capital city -San Sebastian-. Almost a century ago, it was built an metric RR with electric...

May our beloved ones to give us a kiss & a flower (and maybe too that piece of rolling stock that makes us drool :p ). All we need is love... :D

LOL!! I could use a free mail to Bahamas (or New Zealand, or...) :D :D :D It would be nice to put myself inside a big box (like the Gauge's one) and have a friend to send me by mail. :p But then I remember this GPS/ES guys and I have images of me starving into a warehouse because the...

Well. Finally (after paying the bribe), I have sent this email complaining to USPS. I'm pretty sure that they will use it as "electronic toilet paper" but, I'm also sure that there are many others that have suffered similar issues. If enough of this guys send complaints about it, maybe the USPS...

Spitfire. If you read my last post, you will see that the first time this guys tried to do 'business' with me, I have already received the package before I was contacted by them. According to their writing, GPS hold your parcel ten labour days. If you don't reply in this window, they return the...

Enough funny that, until now, I would have swear that the spanish Postal Service were the biggest bunch of incompetents under the Sun. They reached a New World Record this past Christmas, when a letter taked 21 days to travel between two cities... distant 20 kilometers apart. :eek: Geez! A...

I know that the majority of you are US citizens, so you will not be affected by this new case (for me) of "better service... greater headaches", but I wanted to relate it here. Maybe another non-US gaugers have suffered similar 'banditries'. Until now, as an european citizen, when I made my...

Thanks, Terry! ;)

Wow! Very nice models, Pete. They don't seem to have 14 years in their wheels! :cool: I have been tempted to convert one undecorated P2K SD60 to D&RGW SD50, but I have not too much confidence in my kitbashing abilities (I'm a 'RTR' guy, I'm afraid :rolleyes: ). So, after seeing their F7's...

Do you know something about Athearn planing to make RTR SD50's in their Genesis line? If this became true, we will have Kato and P2K SD45's AND Genesis and P2K SD50's... (Yummm!! :D )

Sorry guys, I'm a disaster calculating in square feet...:rolleyes: My (still-in-the-future) layout will be around 15/20 square meters.

I'm very sad about this news. :( My feelings are now with their families and friends. I only hope that this won't stop the efforts to bring the mankind to the space. It's a big loss and a sad day, but now we have seven new bright stars in the sky...

Happy New Year to all, friends!!:D :D :D