[:D][:D][:D]Hey GIZ,[:D][:D][:D]
Yesterday I was at school helping our cleaning ladies throw out unwanted stuff and one of them found a 1033 Lionel 90 watt transformer. They asked me if I wanted it and I said yes. I took it home plugged it in and low and behold it worked great. Nice find now I gotta find the train that goes with it. Have any of use giz found any good finds out of the blue? Please tell.
laz57[:D]
Laz, the proper spelling of “use giz” is “y’all”…
Laz,
A couple of years ago I lost a 1033 while traveling through Millersburg. Can you send it to me? [:-,]
BTW - Bob has the spelling, but around here y’all is spoken with at least four syllables.
Regards,
Roy
Jest dem Yankees say, “Yuz giz.”
I was once given a transformer, too. It was made by Sakai of Japan. A friend of my dad’s had gotten it in a box lot of stuff at an auction and had no use for it. It’s value is really as a collectable rather than for operational purposes. At the time, I didn’t have any Sakai trains, but since then, I’ve gotten a Sakai set without a transformer.
Another time, my dad was at work and noticed a small Bub clockwork steam engine sitting by his things. It turned out that a coworker had found it in his garage and would have thrown it away, but remembered that my dad had a son who was into trains and thought I might have a use for it.
There’s this kid I know who’s into HO trains. One day, him and his dad stopped by to show me a box of stuff they just got at an auction. It was a lot of HO stuff, pretty much all junk. However, there was the caboose from a very rare Marx HO set. I had been looking for one of these sets for a long time (they’re so rare, I don’t even know what the engine looks like). They let me have it all.
OH YUZ GIZ? LOL LOL LOL !@#!@#!@#?
Leave it to those southern boys.
Nice find SASK.
laz57
Hello Laz ! You should take the cleaning ladies to a Train Show and see if they can come up with any bargains.[;)][:)]…Keith
I understand use Laz. Dats da way weez speaks in Chicaga too.
When I was about 3, a neighbor gave me a large box of American Flyer trains, track and accessories…don’t know hatever happened to it over the years though.
underworld
“Yuz giz.”
That kind of talk really doesn’t get heard north of “New Yawk”. You never hear it in New England. You will hear uhhh-yaw (yes), chowdah (chowder), cah (car) - no "r"s in a New England Accent. We also call soda “tonic”. Blue jeans are known as dungarees.
Congratulations and good luck with your new transformer, Laz.
Jim
Hey underworld -
Just because I’m such a nice guy, I’d be glad to take that box of American Flyer stuff off your hands if you ever find it. Heck, I’ll even pay the shipping… [:D]
Flyers Forever !!
Do you still have rotaries, frappes, elastics, and simultaneously red-and-yellow traffic lights, Jim?
Yes we do, Bob, and let’s not forget candlepin bowling. Most of the bowling alleys here are set up for candlepins, not 10-pins. We also have yield signs, but no one pays any attention to them. Makes for some interesting rotary driving!
Live, hear long enough and it all starts to feel normal.
Jim
The red and yellow traffic lights are also a common thing in europe too. You should turn off the engine on red light and red&yellow signals “start your engines”.
That is to save fuel and the environment.
The only slang english I know is scottish, which is like a german speaking english…
(but y’all is understandable…)
That’s what red and yellow mean in Europe. But in Boston red and yellow together mean that all cars must stop and that pedestrians have the right of way throughout the intersection.
I don’t suppose they’re much used nowadays; but Boston even has its own hand signals (no, not that one). The left-turn signal is the same as elsewhere, arm straight out. The right-turn signal however is not the arm up, but a circular motion made in the air with the arm out.