Re: FS: South Wind NYC Combine
My thoughts,? come from our benefits in getting so many new models.? At one time I owned a Super Scale 65' combine--this model f? copper sides
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Bob Werre
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Re: Unique Southern Pacific AC-5 Cab Forward 4-8-8-2 for sale
https://www.nasg.org/HowTo/Kitbashing/M2FordCOEConversion.php Looks like a procedure for using one of the great?Hartoy bodies?on an M2 chassis. ?Take a body from one of the 1930s Hartoy trucks that
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Ted Larson
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Re: S scale comments........
Take a look at 3D Central Trains table at Amherst or its website. ?There is a lot of niche modeling going on in HO. Ben Trousdale
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Ben
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Re: Posting Only On Facebook
Regarding? NASG?(managed by Chris Burger on behalf of the NASG; ~1,300 members) ? ?What is NASGs purpose for this? ?? Sent from my Tardis
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Ted Larson
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Re: It's Official: No More Flyer
OK..........the joke is on me.? I took you too literally.? Welcome back !!? Now, what can I sell you next?? I need deeds, not words.? I will admit to being rather saddened to hear about an S
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Ed Loizeaux
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Re: It's Official: No More Flyer
Ed,? I kid you.? ?I'm really an S scale lifer.? ?However I did recently visit an N scale layout.? ?It was interesting.? ? Very small but interesting. Alway S,? Andrew
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Andrew Parker
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Re: Posting Only On Facebook
I want to echo Mark Charles Peter. I get stuck doing a repair today as I could not find the correct wiring diagram in any of my personal references. I went to the NASG website and found just what I
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Austin Birkey <aftrainfun@...>
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Re: S scale comments........
Part of the answer, Jace, might be that as SHS was on the way up, hobby shops were on the way out. While only a relative handful of hobby shops carried S, shops were one of the few ways potential
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Brian Jackson
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Re: It's Official: No More Flyer
Well with Lionel dropping the American Flyer line, this may benefit American Models and Scale Trains. That's been my first thought since these discussions have been posted here. I hope that this will
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William Cole
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Re: S scale comments........
I think Don Thompson and his partner came as close to a sugar uncle as we are ever likely to see. They developed a complete line of full-scale (but operable on AF track) line of cars, locomotives, and
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JGG KahnSr
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Re: FS: South Wind NYC Combine
That puzzles me, as I'd have thought the combine was the most versatile of all passenger equipment, although perhaps that is just me, with my interest in branch and short line railroading where mixed
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JGG KahnSr
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Re: S scale comments........
Ed, I like your thinking!? We need to share a realistic picture of the challenges and opportunities in S through our 'promotional' efforts, and I think generally we have.? We're not HO or O or
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Brooks Stover
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Re: S scale comments........
The thing is: People also creatively make things in the other scales.? There still has to be a baseline of available support infrastructure.? Remaining a curiosity and sticking to the "builders
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Rich Gajnak
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Re: FS: South Wind NYC Combine
That's quite a discovery Jace!? Seems that the lonely combine has often been a step child.? When they first were imported, I obtained one.? I then had the opportunity to buy an entire train of the
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Bob Werre
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S scale comments........
Lionel has several factories in China which produce products for them.? At one time, the number was at least 10+ different factories.? Lionel obtained competitive bids for production from various
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Ed Loizeaux
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Re: Dumb Curiousity
I don't know about Lionel, but I've read much of model railroading makers in China are owned by J.P. Morgan Bank.? So reusing them in China shouldn't be anything but a raising Capital problem.?
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George Courtney
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Re: The SD70 and ES44¡
True Bill, but both far exceed anything that AC Gilbert tooled. Don Thompson¡
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Don Thompson
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Re: The Monon Thoroughbred
Roger, Higher vantage point images are now referred to as "drone shots"...and they're all the rage! Real railroads now look like layouts on YouTube! Brooks
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Brooks Stover
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Re: "Purchasing" the AF tooling
Thanks for the example. And imagine losing your job over it ! Bill in Ft Worth
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Bill Hadley
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Re: "Purchasing" the AF tooling
Bill, this was done in the 60¡¯s by Walter Graeff of Ace Model Railroad. He agreed to purchase a ¡°Days¡± run of the injection molding machine, which I think Josh Seltzer told me was 5,000 units.
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Don Thompson
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