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    JBBV 101 who or what am I????

    she is Ho. guess i sould have posted that.
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    JBBV 101 who or what am I????

    this is what i found when i striped her. yes that is brass under all that solder. the gennerator was a pice of a spring no Whistel the bell ws a one pice casting that was realy bad. I used Cal-Scale parts as you can see in the last pic. also not sure how good it shows up but the air pumps are...
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    JBBV 101 who or what am I????

    here are a couple pics of what 101 looked like when i got her from Ebay. Does anyone have a clue what this engine is? as in who may have made it? I also have a couple pics of what she looked like when i striped her. just have to find them.
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    New pic of 2-6-6-2

    ok shows how smart i am calling 849 by the wrong number. ok this is one last pic let me know how you guys like it.
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    New pic of 2-6-6-2

    here is one last good one of 649. this is my overall fav.
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    New pic of 2-6-6-2

    ok here is the 2nd pic
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    New pic of 2-6-6-2

    here are a few of old 101 she is a true Bas**d we have no clue who made her or anything about her. she was a ebay buy at less than $75.00 + a $20.00 tender everything is brass. here are a couple good pics of her.
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    Mainline Coaling Tower

    no prob here are a few.
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    New pic of 2-6-6-2

    couple more of the coach works
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    New pic of 2-6-6-2

    here are a couple more to think about
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    New pic of 2-6-6-2

    yep tons of them.
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    New pic of 2-6-6-2

    here is a new pic of my 2-6-6-2 and a pic of the coach works.
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    As promised, Fred---weed wacker

    all i can say is wow. that is somthing i would never think of.
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    Mainline Coaling Tower

    that looks great. just made one alot like that out of wood took me 4 weeks with only a N scale set of blue prints to go from but yours looks great.
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    Narrow Gauge?

    I read somwhere a few months ago a story on why the rails were 4 foor 8 and one half inches it said somthing like this. that the romans used a war chariot that the wheels had to sit betwint the foot tracks of the 2 war horses that pulled it so the roads in rome were made that wide. the space...
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    Something I have always wanted to kitbash but am afraid I will screw up.

    i am building one of these myself and one for a frind i used the Roundhouse / MDC #6084 Pullman Diner cit it in half and and it makes 2 nice Diner's i am making mine like the ones in the FSM book i like how George Sellios did his and i also have the Instructions to the FSM kit Roadside Delights...
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    photo's

    the whole thing is made of a old 9in by 24 in shelf 2 foot of old brass track and a lot of dirt out of my drive way. the buildings were all scratchbuilt the big shead is made from the FSM coopers garage. the others are from an old MR blueprint set called "the house on the hill" i thought it was...
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    Finished my first Jordan kit.

    those are great i have done a bunch of them. I have found that they are harder than alot of the 1/25 scale cars i use to build.
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    Group Question

    if i remember it right. it was called "The Dynamite Express" the train ran up a bridge and you could make the bridge fall apart. the train falls in. i remember there being a plunger that i think used air to blow up the bridge. then again it couls have been just a dream.
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    Group Question

    ok guys i was in a chat room the other day we were talking about what else but trains. we got to talking about a train set that came out in the mid 70's we think. it was like the Addams Family train you could blow it up and crash it. i kind of remember this. i think. does anyone know if this was...