It’s gone! Vanished. No sign of it in my profile under previous activity?
[%-)]
Mike.
Oh dear.
Perhaps you expressed one of the Seven Forbidden Opinions? Those’ll snake-bite you every time.
Dave Nelson
[(-D] I don’t Dave, all I was asking was those that have the locos, what are intake grills made of, etched metal, or part of the shell casting, like Athearn.
Craziness! Maybe it’s a secret part of the locked warning we recieved from Craig M. a couple of days ago.
My question on Stewart F7 units still remains, I received one reply that says they are castings, part of the shell.
I guess I’ll run with that.
Mike.
Mike, I didn’t see your thread, but it was undoubtedly offensive and therefore deleted by the moderator. [:-^]
Rich
Mike,
I have no idea what happened to your thread or why. I don’t even see it in the Deleted Posts forum. [:S]
Tom
We all have suffered many unjustifiable consequences as we make make our journey up the stream of life.
I shall endeavor to persevere!
Mike.
Looks like some of us make make the journey twice…[:o)]
Mike your response to my post in the Readers Choice Poll disappeared too. You hanging around with a bad crowd.[}:)]
Yea, so? [oX)]
It’s happening to Brent too.
Mike.
[oX)][oX)] Tis the band of pirates they have caught up to me hearties.
Mike,
To be more specific about the Stewart Shells they are part of the molded shell. The F-3’s screening look very convincing and even have some bracing detail molded behind the screen molding. The F7’s and 9’s for some reason just don’t look as good. I think its because their is no bracing detail behind it. Also the grills tend to be two dimensional instead of looking like flat pieces of metal.
Steve B
It must have been the database hiccup yesteday - last night I typed a reply to a message and when I hit submit it said something like thread count cannot be zero. I figured it lost the database again, but when I went back, the thread was there, but missing the message I was replying to. I noticed a few other messages got lost as well - looks liek the database rolled back an hour or two, and anythign in that period was lost.
–Randy
That’s what keeps throwing me off, it appears I can “see through” to the structural details.
I will just move on, and forget about using Stewart shells.
I have collected a load of F7 details parts, and I will move forward.
Thanks again Steve. !
Mike.
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Me? I am the bad crowd!
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-Kevin
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Your welcome MIke,
The only set I have left are the MKT F7’s Stewart did years ago. I sold the F3’s when Athearn ran Genesis sets. If Athearn does Genesis F7’s in the MKT delivered scheme I will sell these. Although maybe not as Stewart really did the interim scheme between the Sloan era and the Barriger era solid red. These have silver in the lower side with a small MKT shield where as delivered had Missouri Kansas Texas spelled out on a very light gray back ground.
Everyone else has definantely passed up Stewarts F’s. However they do run very well.
Steve B
Well, maybe not everyone, Steve. I’ve picked up a few in the last two years in my preferred livery (SP Black Widow) if the price was right. It didn’t hurt that I got 'em with Kato drives, either. Slap a decoder in 'em, dress up with some grabs, and they are good to go for general use. I’m also thinking that many clubs could find happy homes for them. They’d be great “steady Eddies” for heavy ops sessions and open houses where viewers and operators are likely to have a more functional mindset. Think of it this way: you don’t have to get all gussied up to have a great date with your sweetie!
John
Thanks Steve and John. I pulled the trigger on ordering some parts from Highliner to go with what I have collected so far, so I started cutting up the Athearn shells, and get the build going.
Kevin, no, sorry, your not the bad crowd, you are very tame compared to the group I’ve been known to run with in a previous life. [swg]
Thanks for the input from all!
Mike.
Since you have apparently have some Highliner parts, why fool with upgrading old Athearn shells? Get the Highliner F7 shell and don’t look back.
That has crossed my mind more than once.
Mike.
Something strange is certainly going on. I saw a post from rrebell in my train club thread briefly on Jan. 16th and then I haven’t seen it since. It is still not there.
As we were warned, the forums were messed up on the 16th. Strange things were happening when I was trying to log on. I suspect some forum activity has been lost. Hopefully Kalmbach can restore the lost posts and threads.
Dave