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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
My wife and I went to see "The boys in the boat" on Christmas Day. Aside for a very British train and station standing in for the Seattle depot, it was a good film.- p51
- Post #31,237
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Your golden-era model railroads!
I recently got the digital proof for my article for the Kalmbach 2024 Model Railroad Planning Annual complete with Model Railroader-produced track plan. That was surreal to me to see that as I never thought I'd see my own layout in one of their trackplans. I assume it'll be out in December or...- p51
- Post #194
- Forum: The Display Case
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Your golden-era model railroads!
https://www.tracksidemodelrailroading.com/magazine/past-issues/2023-archive/oct-2023/ Here's my latest magazine appearance. They came out to shoot stills and video not long ago. It's not much if you REALLY want to see it.- p51
- Post #192
- Forum: The Display Case
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Your golden-era model railroads!
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- Post #191
- Forum: The Display Case
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Rank and Patches on Military Jackets - Might I Offend a Veteran?
It's just a jacket. I have several A2's all patched up that I'll sometimes wear out. In over 30 years of doing so, nobody has EVER said anything other than to say how cool it looks or to ask where I got it. This one got signed by Robert Morgan about a year before he passed and HE had no issues... -
Show us your vehicles
I took my 1944 MB to the local 4th of July parade yesterday. It's the nearest vehicle to the camera. First time it'd left the town I live in since before the pandemic started. It was SO nice to drive it more than a mile or so. That said, I had quite a scare about a mile from the house, I heard...- p51
- Post #3,092
- Forum: The Display Case
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Your golden-era model railroads!
I took some more shots last night, for a article I'm sending to the NMRA magazine. The vertical one is one I'm going to submit, but in color. I really like the 'old photo' effect on it, though.- p51
- Post #189
- Forum: The Display Case
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Your golden-era model railroads!
It's been a bad couple of weeks for me and I'm just in a place where I can post about it. My parents were both born in 1936, and well into their 30s when I was born. They had all the types of issues you expect from people past their mid-80s. Dad got sick, went to the hospital, got COVID along...- p51
- Post #188
- Forum: The Display Case
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Your golden-era model railroads!
The NMRA 4th region convention was last week. It was a nice event, I gave a presentation on military railroad operations for model railroads. I also won third place overall for the photo contest. They combined the real and model photos and mine was the only model photo to place. This is the...- p51
- Post #187
- Forum: The Display Case
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Your golden-era model railroads!
I ran an older video through an old movie film filter to create this video.- p51
- Post #186
- Forum: The Display Case
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Your golden-era model railroads!
Over the weekend, I put up the original builder's plate for an Army ALCO S2 locomotive on the wall of the layout room, which fits in with the layout's timeframe: Then, I cut the cover off a copy of O Scale trains with my newest cover, and added it to the 'wall of fame':- p51
- Post #185
- Forum: The Display Case
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Your golden-era model railroads!
Just got this in the mail today: I had no idea this was coming. This was one of two proposed cover shots I'd sent them last year with an article on my layout. The editor chose what I agreed was the best of the two but said he liked this one as well and would use it later. This issue has no...- p51
- Post #184
- Forum: The Display Case
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Your golden-era model railroads!
I was taking some shots for an article for the NMRA magazine and decided to go for a cover shot. Neither of these were useable, but I played around with them so I could post them instead:- p51
- Post #183
- Forum: The Display Case
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The Nazi Gold Train
Some of those stories are true. For example, counterfeit bills printed by the Germans, confirmed found in the Toplitzsee in Austria. There supposedly is a layer of logs submerged about halfway down into that very deep lake, and those who have tried to SCUBA dive it have called it very difficult... -
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Your golden-era model railroads!
I just made this for those who have seen my layout on video:- p51
- Post #182
- Forum: The Display Case
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Your golden-era model railroads!
On Friday a good friend of mine got a huge batch of letters from railroads from a guy in the 40s who wrote to railroads all over the country asking for timetables. Among them was a 1942-dated letter from the East Tennessee & Western North Carolina. Better still, it says enclosed was timetable...- p51
- Post #181
- Forum: The Display Case
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Your golden-era model railroads!
Just finished this yesterday, a water tank made from a Bachmann On30 2-6-0 tender shell and a water plug set with some other detail parts. The nozzle for the locomotives on the far side, facing away from the people looking at the layout.- p51
- Post #180
- Forum: The Display Case
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Your golden-era model railroads!
Been taking more photos this weekend, and most of you know how I like recreating period photos… Train time at the ET&WNC's grade crossing for Stoney Creek Road at Sadie, Tennessee on a sweltering August in 1943 as number 12 brings in a coal train:- p51
- Post #179
- Forum: The Display Case
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
I'll be 53 at the end of the month and anyone my age knows the word "Flak" but none of the teachers at the school in their 30s and none of the kids had ever heard it in any context. As for the floppy icon, kids are shocked to find that their keyboards still have a 'shift' and 'tab' buttons once...- p51
- Post #6,438
- Forum: The Golden Era
