Let me see if I can PM you instead. There must be some way to avoid using the forum as a marketplace. Googling “CP Jordan Spreader” resulted in photos that showed a later model than the 2-200 - looks like a Model “J”. My LHS has one of those, too, just in a different livery.
Let me help get you started Kevin. I took this a few years ago from the deck of the SS Badger. A former railroad car ferry turned passenger/tourist ferry. Runs out of my hometown.
This does not sound like a fun time. I think the worst for me would be putting the sheetrock back up and blending in the texture and paint to look right.
I’m sure you’re better at it than I could ever be. I think I remember one of your pictures showing how you replaced some ceiling, and it was completely blended in with the surrounding ceiling.
Hi Brent, Can you post a link to the archives for the snow plow? I’m curious to find out what fuel it used. There appears to be a tender behind the plow and there is a good sized exhaust stack so I suspect it was steam driven, but was it wood fired or coal fired? I have a couple of older tenders lined up on eBay. One has a really nice coal load and another has a decent looking wood load. Thanks, Dave
we came down here to get away, now will be driving back in the snow on Sunday. It will snow here and at home, the weather guessers can’t decide what is going to do.
delivered 2 radios back to their home here in the Southern Command area.
I guess on Young Sheldon tonight, 17 year old Georgie got together with a hot blonde 25 year old.
My phone lit up (again), with messages from friends and family saying THIS IS YOU! You are the subject of Young Sheldon!
This is the second time this season Young Sheldon has featured a plot line from my life. Do they owe me royalties or something? Maybe I just know too many people that watch Young Sheldon and also know too much about me.
Maybe when baby/baby was out in California she told too many stories about her dad to screenwriter friends.
Dave, the info I got said it was from the Wellington County Archives. I looked it up and found this but did not have the time to poke around. I think it would be a great project and right up your alley. am looking forward to the pics of your progress.[swg]
MLC, the radio is a Viking which was the store brand for Eaton’s Dept store. Eaton’s was a nationwide Canadian Dept store that went caput years ago. The story has it my Dad had a friend that worked at Eaton’s and during WWII there was a shortage of everything. My Dad got a call at work that Eaton’s in downtown Winnipeg got three radios in and my Dad’s friend held one for him. My Dad took off on his lunch hour to grab it with the blessing of his boss for taking an extended lunch considering the circumstances.
In the 1960s I plugged an old turntable into it and played my first Gordon Lightfoot album through it over and over again. So long ago.
Ray, those outhouses remind me of a castle I visited somewhere once. The castle was on the ocean and the toilets (still in service) were a row of holes in a rock shelf. You looked down through the holes and it was a 200’ drop into the ocean. Too far to hear the splash.[(-D] I think it may have been in Scotland but I can’t remember. Maybe the Balkans.
I was talking to someone a while ago about their trip to South America. They were telling me about this little town they visited and I said it looked like a great place to visit and maybe I will get there someday. At that point, my wife went and got a photo off the wall in a back room of the two of us in that town 26 years ago.[:-^] It all blends together after a while. I loved traveling though.
Back when I was still flying and working at the airport. I would just like to escape from the day sometimes. I could go rent a plane where I had learned to fly at V
OH WOW! Talk about pressure!! Was that a steel toed boot that you used to kick my butt?!?
I couldn’t find any more information in the Wellington County archives. I spent about an hour trying various search parameters but I couldn’t find the plough.
I think I will model the snow plough as being coal fired only because one of the tenders I am looking at on eBay has such a beautiful coal load. If I can’t get that particular tender it will at least have shown me what a realistic coal load should look like.
I will also have to buy a suitable freight car to use for the body of the plough. Everything I have is too modern for 1901.
Edit: A closer study of the plough shows that it is about four feet taller than a standard freight car. If you assume that they used a standard freight car door on the side, the additional height is pretty obvious. I’ll have to check my styrene inventory to see if I have the proper car siding. I just ordered an Accurail double sheathed 36’ box car. The sides won’t fit but it will give me a decent roof to work with as well as the frame and undercarriage, and maybe I can use the doors. I’ll have to change the trucks. I hope I haven’t thrown out all my arch bar trucks.
Wow - halfway down the page this morning. Hope David is ok he’s usually in just before I arrive.
You’ve been a talkative bunch. I’ll try to catch up posts later. Just now I’d like a toasted bagel with cream cheese and a regular to go please. Too early for Killians Kevin. Trying to get far enough down the tunnel to see the light at the end and hope it isn’t an oncoming train. Ciao, J.R.
Good to see that Mikes daughter came through surgery well and Henry as well.
