Yesterday was my Birthday and my wife surprised me! [:D] First the day looked bad. I had to report for Jury Duty. Not that that is a bad thing to do. But I was not excited about seeing Lawyers go at each other and the opponets witness. Any ways I showed as required and they didnt need me until next week. Hooray free day ! On my Birth day ! So I went to the lhs and bought my self an engine. Bachman Spectrum 4-8-4 articulated. Took it home it ran great. And the best thing is my wife who in the past has not generally supported my hobby actually bought me a water tower, a house and a laser cut building ! Then While I let my daughters run their engines she commented that we need to start working on the layout (we have been busy finishing the other half of the basement,starting a brick patio…) because the girls love the “choo choo”. After running the train for a while we went out to dinner. Great day for one that did not look as promising in the beginning.[(-D]
Happy Birthday! No jury duty, free. New locomotive, $200. Spousal support of your hobby, PRICELESS!
i have something to say about that Spectrum loco. how can you have an articulated 4-8-4 (Northern)?
Thanks for the well wishes. You have spoken truly on the WIFE/PRICELESS statement ! Engine. I wish it only cost $200 , unfortunately I paid over a hundred more for it. But it was my BD and I was so excited about having a free day (first in 6 months) I didnt care about the cost.Thanks again.
happy birthday to you. i was my birthday to, didn’t get any train stuff but i got other things that were ok LOL
jeff
I’m glad that gottawanta got himself a new loke but I was going to raise the same question: what is a
Picky! Picky! Picky!
Hmmmm…he could be talking about a Pennsy 4-4-4-4, inadvertenly adding the 2 sets of drivers together. The BLI model not articulated, it is rigid like the prototype. Because of this, I suspect he has a Bowser model of the 4-4-4-4 which indeed does have articulated drivers.
Or he doenst know what ‘articulated’ means…
Who knows.
David B
try 4-4-4-4 tried to save time on the 4s
Hey Dave ! How ya doing ? I was trying to shorten the message by saving on the 4s . I do know what articulated means. I figured every one in modeling would know what I was saying by using 8 vs two 4s.
The lead and trailing trucks are articulated.
[bday]
Nice to see your wife is coming along. You could also tell her that if it’s either trains or nightclubbing, but I’d be ready to duck. [:-,]
Post photos of your progress.
Yea on the night clubbing and ducking. My wife used to teach Karate[B)]
Nope, 4-4-4-4 everyone understands, (accepted nomiculture), 4-8-4 articulated is strange. 4-4-4-4 articulated is wrong (assuming you are meaning the Pennsy T1…it wasnt articulated). Articulation is the ability of the driving wheels to pivot underneath the boiler. The Pennsy T1 4-4-4-4 was not an articulated locomotive. The confusion arrises when the reader tries to imagine a 4-8-4 with the 8 driving wheels ‘articulating’ underneath the boiler. All 4-8-4 models and prototypes that I know of are rigid.
The BLI T1 is non-articulated model of a non-articulated locomotive…hence prototypical in that aspect.
The Bowser T1 is an articulated model of a non-articulated locomotive…hence non-prototypical in that aspect.
If on the otherhand you got a brass articulated 4-4-4-4 brass logger locomotive from your wife for your birthday, you are one lucky man to have that wife.
David B
Nope it is a Cheaspeake and Ohio. MY memory may have served me wrong it may be a 2-4-4-4. I will look when I get home this evening. Any ways the trucks below the boiler swivel,articulate,what no bd wish ?
Forget I said anything…
Correction Not only did I loose another year of my youth but also some more of my memory it is a 2-6-6-2 Cheaspeake and Ohio
Okay, first it was a 4-8-4, then a 4-4-4-4, then a 2-4-4-4 and finally a 2-6-6-2. It’s a good thing you didn’t actually have to serve on a jury that day; you might have sent a pick-pocket to the gallows.
Actually I have a very hard time with memory. I suffered a devastating car accident a few years bac. Many operations and some permanent damage. One of the things damaged was my head . I believe they call it coup counter coup ? Basically your brain sloshes back and forth in the skull breaking a whole bunch of very tiny electrical connections. Iwas intherapy for three years relearning and rehabing. But I have survived by the Grace of God and get to enjoy my family,dhttp://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z23/yougottawanna_bucket/p010.jpgaughters and this hobby.If this works (photo bucket ) I took some pictures last night and signed on to photo bucket today so I can post some pitures.
yougottawanta & his wife make a very nice COUPLE. ! [bday]
LOL ! Couple ! Thats corny but I like it !