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Late last year, my Dell PC blue-screened, and went down hard, so hard, I ended up reloading the Windows system totally, wiping out my hard drive. I thought I'd backed up my files on the Terrabyte drive, but it's encoded, and the CD for it is...well, missing.
Yesterday, I was cleaning up my PC area, and discovered the 2nd back-up external drive I had my wife gave me for Christmas year before last. Let me just plug it in...Hey! All my files are on it, and NOT encoded! I found my entire folder of train pictures, with all my Tyco post pictures, that I thought were gone or well-hidden forever!  I have since copied them over to the Terrabyte drive, and my original PC drive, so I've got them in 3 places now, I think I also put some on a CD, but that's still hidden somewhere. More organization needed...
So I must have backed up my drive at some point, then forgotten about it and it was shoved behind my keyboard under my cat shelf ( yeah, I built a cat shelf to keep the cat(s) off my keyboard, still use it ). So a happy weekend for me, all my "missing" pictures are safe and sound, and backed up openly on the Terrabyte drive this time, too.  While I can't always remember what I do, at least I"m smart about it sometimes! 
Just because, here's a few random pictures out of my folder to make this post more interesting.
     
And, as Porky Pig so eloguently says, " A-biddea, biddea, that's all, folks!"
Jerry in VA, back in photos again....
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Posted - February 16 2015 : 09:52:03 AM
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Nice save. Then again, if the wife sees the third picture, she might just trash your files.
That's a really interesting picture with the Vegas.
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Posted - February 16 2015 : 11:17:02 AM
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"Turbo-car, 70's cars, girls, oh my!"Nice photos, though, to sum it up. Extremely random though. 
-Steve
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Posted - February 16 2015 : 12:22:02 PM
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That was one weird auto transport. Not sure how the engines in the autos would fare being upended like that for long periods of time tho.
P.S. That forgetfulness is called "old age" or a "brain fart".
Edited by - oldtimer52 on February 16 2015 12:23:16 PM
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Posted - February 16 2015 : 12:23:12 PM
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quote:Nice save.
That's a really interesting picture with the Vegas.
Originally posted by NC shortlines - February 16 2015 : 09:52:03 AM
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Yes, the Verti-pak system. Only problem with it was, they had to drain all the fluids out of the engine and cooling system to use it. While they could get more cars in that way, it also was probably labor intensive to put trans fluid, oil, and coolant back into the cars at the destination, plus they couldn't drive them onto truck transporters right away. So it became problematic, and it was probably only good for that one car model, the Vega. Not a very long-lives system, I don't think.
Jerry
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Posted - February 16 2015 : 12:44:53 PM
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quote:
Yes, the Verti-pak system. Only problem with it was, they had to drain all the fluids out of the engine and cooling system to use it....
Jerry
Originally posted by AMC_Gremlin_GTÂ -Â February 16 2015Â :Â 12:23:12 PM
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I always wondered about that, imagining the engine oil slowly dripping down through the front grilles...
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Posted - February 16 2015 : 1:15:14 PM
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| Of all the poor quality cars made of the 70s it seem like the Vega is the one that you never see. Once in a while you'll see a Pinto somewhere. There's one on the road that approaches our home...
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Posted - February 16 2015 : 1:29:55 PM
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quote:Of all the poor quality cars made of the 70s it seem like the Vega is the one that you never see. Once in a while you'll see a Pinto somewhere. There's one on the road that approaches our home...
Originally posted by walt - February 16 2015 : 1:15:14 PM
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Haven't seen a Vega for a looong time. They were very prone to rust if I recall correctly.
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Posted - February 16 2015 : 2:15:07 PM
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I think some HO companies make that Verti-Pack car in N & HO
Do want that plus the race truck set hehe
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Posted - February 16 2015 : 2:53:05 PM
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I saw a Vega station wagon just a few years ago, on the road. Not to bad condition. Probably a southwest car originally.
That forklift operation looks dicey, too. How the cars are initially lifted and then the forks repositioned looks like it would tear up the door of the freight car.
I have seen a similar system but, that was in a 1950's era film.
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Posted - February 16 2015 : 4:15:28 PM
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More Cars on trains.
The Vegas reminded me that my dad said they shipped new cars in boxcars when he worked for a dealership in central Texas. That was in the 30s.
By the way the follow on to the Vega was a Chevette, better know as a shove It. The back seat was an option on the Chevette,
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Posted - February 16 2015 : 5:14:07 PM
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quote:More Cars on trains.
The Vegas reminded me that my dad said they shipped new cars in boxcars when he worked for a dealership in central Texas. That was in the 30s.
By the way the follow on to the Vega was a Chevette, better know as a shove It. The back seat was an option on the Chevette,
Regards, John
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Originally posted by JRG1951Â -Â February 16 2015Â :Â 4:15:28 PM
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 I have a model of one of those box cars, actually in H0 scale.
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Posted - February 16 2015 : 8:52:25 PM
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quote:| By the way the follow on to the Vega was a Chevette, better know as a shove It. Originally posted by JRG1951Â -Â February 16 2015Â :Â 4:15:28 PM
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A more direct successor was the Monza. It was the same body with a different engine - in fact, a choice of three different engines. The Monza was out at the same time as the Chevette.
My first car was a Chevette. It was a good little car for me at the time, but it couldn't make it in today's higher speed limits. Mine had a flat out top speed of 75 mph. Since the highest speed limit anywhere, then, was 55 it was no problem, but there are many, many miles of 75 mph speed limit, now, and places were the limit is 80.
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 Posted - February 16 2015 : 9:36:44 PM
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Don,
Never had a Chevette. I have owned 3 Fiats in my youth, so I should keep my mouth shut. Do you know what Fiat stands for? "Fix it again Tony."
In fact my father was a Ford man. I tried to be a Dodge man, but my last Jeep's transmission went out, just after Obama gave them to Fiat.,  I think that cured me, I got my wife a Ford.
Edited by - JRG1951 on February 16 2015 9:50:42 PM
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Posted - February 16 2015 : 9:54:57 PM
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I don't really rate the Chevette as bad as the Vega or Pinto. The Vega was so bad, that it would get rust while on the showroom floor. Leaving the body shop to have to spot paint them before they were ever sold..
In 1979, I worked for a Cadillac dealer. My job was to repair any body damage that happened to a brand new car. These repairs could have been rock dents from delivery or some damage a salesman had done while driving the car around the dealership. Or a factory defect of sort.
I get a laugh out of those people who say, "my car has never been damaged"...
Edited by - walt on February 16 2015 9:57:12 PM
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Posted - February 16 2015 : 10:45:29 PM
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quote:I get a laugh out of those people who say, "my car has never been damaged"...
Originally posted by walt - February 16 2015 : 9:54:57 PM
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A friend of mine is retired from Chrysler's Belvidere assembly plant's paint shop. He says that cars with defective paint spots on changeable panels would have parts swapped. For example, a car with a good paint job except the hood would steal a hood from another car and after the donor cars were mostly bad parts, the whole thing would go back for repainting. The car that "has never been damaged" may well have been parts-swapped and cannibalized before it even left the factory.
Doesn't matter, though, I've never noticed a problem stemming from that fact.
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Posted - February 17 2015 : 11:15:25 AM
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Hey, I've seen that vert-a-pack autorack picture before! It's one of the few good shots of it on the internet. One of my life goals: either get a brass one (not gonna happen) or scratchbuild one with working doors (still probably not gonna happen).
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