Mutt
Fresh from the paint shop and working hard.
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Mike Swederska
Meramec Valley Lines
Modeling Mopac equipment in 3/16
https://www.youtube.com/@mikesscale3149
Don't let perfection get in the way of
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Mike Swederska
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Code 100 flex track
I ZOOMED with Micro Engineering on Saturday. I can report that they will be
making code 83 flex track very soon. They asked that I blast out if you are
waiting for code 100 flex track order it NOW
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Bill Lane
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Re: Where would you retire?
I retired in 2009 intending to stay where I lived, but due to the illness
and death of a loved one, I moved into a small ranch house in 2020. I live
in the greater Lehigh Valley area of Pennsylvania,
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David Heine
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Re: Off Topic.... Little Willie
What an adorable companion! I miss mine dearly.
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Justin
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Re: Where would you retire?
Still in NJ in the house we bought in 1979. Been retired 20 years. Wife would never let us move away from grand kids. Two are three blocks from us in her parents old house, r the other two an hours
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hoquathob
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Re: Where would you retire?
I bought a condo¡ªI never enjoyed cutting grass or shoveling snow; it's worth it to pay someone else to do it, and, blessedly, I can afford it.
Jace Kahn
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JGG KahnSr
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Re: Where would you retire?
It does snow in Asheville, at most 2-3 times a winter; those are the mornings we look out the window and observe "It's good to be retired."
Jace Kahn
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JGG KahnSr
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Re: Where would you retire?
Got to be a little careful, if you live in a city they probably require sidewalks to be shoveled. Other than that¡
Lots of people in New England see to retire to Maine, where the winters are worse
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Pieter Roos
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Re: Paint for airbrushing
Not a rumor Rich, I used to be a vendor and still get the email blasts.? It's what they announced a few months ago.? As always, Tom Dempsey, Spokane Valley, WA
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thmsdmpsy
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Re: Where would you retire?
Just remember that in a place like Chicago, when you are retired, in the winter you do NOT have to brave the cold and roads every day to go to work.? You don't have to constantly shoveling your car
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Charles Kinzer
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Re: Where would you retire?
My late wife was born and reared in Chicago and the northwestern suburbs, but apart from visiting her parents while they were still around, she never indicated any desire to live there again
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JGG KahnSr
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Re: Where would you retire?
Retire?
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Bill Hawk
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Re: Paint for airbrushing
I can't help you re: water based paint as my only experience (years ago) was a disaster.? Nothing but beading into blobs no matter how much I cleaned the surface.? I've always been a Floquil user,
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Jim King
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Re: Paint for airbrushing
Although it's been tough giving up the smell of Floquil at times, I adventured out to the Badger paints that are great but mostly they seem to a one shot thing--air seems to render them troublesome.?
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Bob Werre
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Re: Where would you retire?
I grew up in a suburb of Chicago (Oak Park) and when it comes to trains, real or model, I think that area has a lot of advantages.
There are still some decent hobby shops there (Desplaines Hobbies
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Charles Kinzer
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Re: Where would you retire?
Hi Phil --
As you know, I live just south and 2000 feet lower than you here in
Prescott Valley, AZ. Having been in every state and lived in most regions
of the US long enough to know better, THIS
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William Winans
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Re: Where would you retire?
Phil
You are speaking as if the world stays the way it was often just yesterday!? When I moved down here to Houston, I had been laid off right at the start of the Nixon era Arab oil embargo.? My
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Bob Werre
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Re: Where would you retire?
Already moved four years ago from the suburbs to the boonies.? It's required a lifestyle change, but not regretting it.
Rich G(ajnak)
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Rich Gajnak
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Re: ...Off topic...Little Willie
Cute little guy. You'll soon have enough for a team
Jim
Martin
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Jim & Cheryl Martin
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Re: Where would you retire?
A legitimate question, and one worthy of discussion (here we go, down the chatlist rabbit hole), although as you suggest, I am not going to move again in this lifetime, except feet-first. When I was
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JGG KahnSr
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