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 Posted - May 24 2009 : 07:13:43 AM
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It's very early in the AM on a Sunday. I'm on my way to a meeting but since this is when we change to a new LotW I thought I'd start. It needs some work but the price was right and it runs good, looks great. Needs coupler and handrails, nothing broken on the shell, MU2 power. Handsome paint scheme.
Alco Fan
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Posted - May 24 2009 : 09:28:05 AM
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Nice!
-Jacob
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Posted - May 24 2009 : 10:46:41 AM
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Extremely nice! 
    
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Posted - May 25 2009 : 02:48:32 AM
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Alco Fan,
That is sweet! I don't have any of that body style yet. I must resolve that issue LOL!
Mike
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Posted - May 25 2009 : 2:02:41 PM
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Let's stay with the CN, here is ma Plymouth MDT Switcher:
Lima! For sure....
Martin
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Posted - May 25 2009 : 5:35:52 PM
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Here's a pic of my Tyco CN GP-20
-cheez
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Posted - May 25 2009 : 7:38:22 PM
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Here's my Lima!
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Posted - May 25 2009 : 10:23:53 PM
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Here's my Lima Plymouth and B unit.
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Posted - May 26 2009 : 06:21:36 AM
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Did you make the B unit? That's a good idea! Is it powered? I was thinking of doing something like that to get an extra 4 wheels for power pickup!
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Posted - May 26 2009 : 11:18:03 AM
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That B-Unit is awesome! Keeping the Shark Fin was a nice touch.
Now a switcher-class B was a "calf", but a de-cabbed diesel was a "slug". Somehow neither of those terms lend the proper zoology to your awesome mutant creation.
I'd call it a "porpoise" because of the fin, and how often you you get to say that silly word otherwise? "Porpoise". Yeah.
I gotta make me one o' thems!
Here's my Tyco CN contribution:
My favorite feature is that they didn't use the numberboards from a GP20 - they made new ones just for this one roadname.
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Posted - May 26 2009 : 12:39:56 PM
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Here's another photo of the "porpoise".
It is unpowered. I like the idea of using it for extra electrical pickup.
Ray
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Posted - May 26 2009 : 3:24:11 PM
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Hey Ray:
Hard to imagine there are any locomotives or dummies on your roster without extra pick-up wipers! I imagine a gandy-dancer hanging off the back of a caboose step, one foot on the rail acting as a pick-up, for an interior light!
-Gareth
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Posted - May 29 2009 : 8:52:45 PM
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Nice CN theme fellas. Nice modeling Ray
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Posted - May 29 2009 : 9:54:57 PM
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quote:Hey Ray:
Hard to imagine there are any locomotives or dummies on your roster without extra pick-up wipers! I imagine a gandy-dancer hanging off the back of a caboose step, one foot on the rail acting as a pick-up, for an interior light!
-Gareth
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You name it, Ray could do it! 
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Posted - May 29 2009 : 10:32:21 PM
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All my Tyco CN, some have to be sent to the shop for clean and lube...
Mike
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Posted - May 29 2009 : 10:47:11 PM
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 O.O neato guys awesome trains heh don't think the real VIA had a caboose
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Posted - May 29 2009 : 10:52:13 PM
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| How do you know...
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Posted - May 30 2009 : 12:34:28 AM
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| prove me wrong
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Posted - May 30 2009 : 01:10:18 AM
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Tyco did it, it must be right...
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Posted - May 30 2009 : 01:18:51 AM
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I've posted these before, this was the only shot I had from a different angle.
My buddies Model Power (Mehano) Metal Train F7's. We've put huge trains behind these two and they just pulled along. Great runners and sharp looking too!
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Posted - May 30 2009 : 09:41:24 AM
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quote:
Well, there might be one VIA caboose somewhere...stranger things have happened:
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Posted - May 30 2009 : 8:41:05 PM
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Hey Chris,
You might want to tell that trucker to back up a bit. Be terrible if he scratched the paint on those locos!
Is that your layout or a club's?
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Posted - May 30 2009 : 8:46:48 PM
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never mind the truckers! What about the passenger cars derailed in the background?! & why the abandoned track?
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Posted - May 31 2009 : 02:16:30 AM
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| Hypnoponera, that's my buddies layout (http://www.tycoforums.com/tyco/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6689) where half my fleet is living right now. Whats funny was since that picture was taken I added a set of crossing signals at that location and moved the truck back haha. The derailed car is just a daily occurrence of us trying to find enough parking for everything! And the rails to trails thing was the former mainline before the crossover addition went on. We were going to buy some bicyclist and make it look like a rails to trails, but that hasn't happened yet!
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Posted - May 31 2009 : 8:19:14 PM
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I reposted this cause it hadn't been up long and it was a nice grouping of CN power. Nice Mike.
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All my Tyco CN, some have to be sent to the shop for clean and lube...
Mike
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Posted - May 31 2009 : 9:37:17 PM
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| hey TycoTodd your Lima switcher is missing a front coupler hey ChrisC if your going to do a rails-to-trails fill in where the ties used to be or the cyclist is gonna have a rough ride
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Posted - May 31 2009 : 10:03:08 PM
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| The Lima is getting Kadee's at some point..
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