Hotels With Rooms for the Convention
I just spend 25 frustrating minutes dealing with the hotel web site.? It was an endless loop: I specify my dates, select a hotel and get told, sorry (ha, ha), there are actually no rooms there.? Did
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William Mosteller
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#170996
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Re: hypothetical question with a real answer
?I mentioned before that a visitor at a train show attended by modelers (not just 'people who like trains') asked me what a Gauger was!?
Part of this is the gradual change in English language
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Ted Larson
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#170995
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Re: NWSL J&L Tank, Another Question
With all the other ones out there, I wonder how many were actually imported?
Jace Kahn
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JGG KahnSr
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#170994
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Re: NWSL J&L Tank, Another Question
I have 15 of these J&L tank cars and need white decals instead of the black or green Champ decals
Rusty
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J. Rustermier
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#170993
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Re: hypothetical question with a real answer
My goodness, did this topic ever go down a different route than what I originally asked about. I never asked about good or bad. Let¡¯s pull this train into the station.
I was looking for what you
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Mike Swederska
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#170992
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Re: hypothetical question with a real answer
With that information I may have to start checking out the program.
In the past I had been dissuaded by the random nature of Kellow's columns in the S Scale Resource and the O scale counterpart--lots
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JGG KahnSr
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#170991
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Re: hypothetical question with a real answer
Although, things have changed drastically over the years, anybody building/completed a layout is a modeler!? I pretty much have stopped with the wooden craftsman kits although I have some
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Bob Werre
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#170990
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Re: NWSL J&L Tank, Another Question
Bill, there was a small photo in the Steam era website several years past of it on the road in black, besides the typical silver 'photo version'.
I believe that when a few of the Houston S guys were
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Bob Werre
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#170989
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Re: hypothetical question with a real answer
In discussions, I always prefaced with words like: "S is a tough scale to get into, it's not for someone looking for instant gratification."
Ed pretty much hits the nail on the head.? I've seen some
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Rich Gajnak
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#170988
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Re: NWSL J&L Tank, Another Question
Most model J&L tank cars are painted wrong based on a builder's photo since
that are almost no known photos of it running in the wild. My car is painted
wring - oh well.. I am not changing
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Bill Lane
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#170987
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Re: hypothetical question with a real answer
Here are some cars I do.
Paul Vaughn
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Paul Vaughn <pev.sn3@...>
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#170986
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Re: hypothetical question with a real answer
I think that the "not building models" ship has already mostly sailed when it comes to engines and rolling stock.? Most are now sold well detailed (usually assembled in a place like China) and all
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Charles Kinzer
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#170985
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Re: hypothetical question with a real answer
You can call me a modeler as I still build models. Are you calling most S
scalers collectors?
Paul Vaughn
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Paul Vaughn <pev.sn3@...>
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#170984
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Re: hypothetical question with a real answer
And we can all stop calling ourselves modelers, because no one will be actually building models anymore.? As always, Tom Dempsey
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thmsdmpsy
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#170983
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Re: small and large, cheap and outrages! UPDATED
Keep me posted on any SP listings.
Charles
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Charles Williams
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#170982
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Re: hypothetical question with a real answer
A lot of engines today, especially diesel, and some steam, are offered with road specific and/or period specific details.? HO has been really leading the way on this and the market seems to
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Charles Kinzer
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#170981
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Re: hypothetical question with a real answer
I WAS a real life HO modeler up until last year. I sold (still selling) my
HO scale collection to build my S Scale collection.
And I may have one other HO modeler and an N Scale modeler ready to
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Shane Lambert
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#170980
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Re: hypothetical question with a real answer
Gents....
How many of us have actually sat down with a real-life avid HO modeler and discussed the availability of S products?? Here we are asking ourselves about how to sell S to HO/N modelers but
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Ed Loizeaux
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#170979
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Re: NWSL J&L Tank, Another Question
There is a builders photo, probably from the CBC, circulating. The problem with builders photos is that too often they are painted in a light primer to highlight detail; most steam locomotives are
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JGG KahnSr
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#170978
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Re: hypothetical question with a real answer
Oh yeah, the "not enough stuff available" comment pisses me off. I know my
collection of 400+ freight cars and 50 locomotives, all in scale, is not
the largest in the world. But when you consider that
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Shane Lambert
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#170977
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