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Monday, December 15, 2025 -

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Posted by Chops124 On December 07 2025 At 01:54:38 AM

https://youtu.be/yTvgt7YdnbE

The G was/is one of my favorite all-time locomotives. I got to see the
real deal with a rather grotesque CR stencilled upon its nose back around
'75 or thereabouts, thundering southward on the 4-track mainline
north of NYC. It was pulling a dog train and appeared to be running at
full throttle, probably the engineer having one last joy ride before the
scrap heap (although apparently a few made it to Can Opener Blue
before the scrapper).

Tyco's G was a piece of junk, but by putting two powered trucks in it
I got her to run fairly decently, hoisting more than one or two cars.

I got a private chuckle during a model train open house, on this layout,
whilst she blew loops past a friend's high-end remote control GG1
that kept collapsing into the ballast every few year yards. I remember
his unit had remote-controlled pantographs that worked most of the
time.

Posted by Chops124 On November 30 2025 At 9:01:10 PM

Hello folks, I am in the middle of recovering from a long hospital stay from pneumonia,
who knew it could be such a butt kicker, and moving Armodilloville into a newly acquired
spare bedroom.

So for now, I am going to run some reruns. This one features some of Anderson Paint
Shop's best and a very rare Tyco F Unit in New Wales Australia livery. It took me over a
year to find this puppy, and I had to sell a kidney to get it.

https://youtu.be/wLEZnyxzW-g

Posted by Chops124 On November 25 2025 At 3:27:58 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJBzp3Arp1k

Some unique locomotives at work.