Haha, ahh James , he wasnt talking about that bud…
Goooooooooooooood Morning, gah, beautiful day, no clouds, and yet its another day of school… ARG! Well, nothing new really, just last night i finished detailing most of my DMIR SD38-2 (KATO).
Alec
Oh!!! Sorry there Alec. I didn’t know that you had a DMIR SD38-2. Max is going to be jealous.
Anyway school sucks and life is slowly getting better in the model rr world. In the next month or so I hope to purchace those GP’s from proto 2000.
But that is still a month away. dang…
James
It was really a dull day. I am so tired, and believe it or not, I fell asleep in the shower.
I sat down because I was thinking about school and then just dosed off. Well, finished homework, and now nothing to do. Next week I will be helping me neighbor put his roof rack and mudflaps on his truck.
I may decide to join the cycling team. We start training in April, and our first race is from Philly to Atlantic City.
Well, I now have a job. My work papers are finished with, and now it is all good.
Hey you gies, i am Raffi and i am 15 years old going on 16 in a few months. I was axploring the site and saw that there is a place to talk about trains. I thought that would be really cool so hear i am. I first want to say i am a huge railfan and i love UNION PACIFIC all the way. I do model railroading and i do take some photographs of trains too. So I was reading a few days ago and today and i am trying to decide if the Ac4400cw is better than the Ac6000cw? so mabye one of you gies can answer my question. I would appriciate that.
Howdy raftrainup and welcome to the TEEN RAILFAN PLACE!!! This is sort of a coffe house type forum, where we come back every day and just shoot the breze, so you are more than welcome here, and please do stick around and enjoy the great conversation!
My name is Chris…I am 14…I am also a big UP fan, and I am also a railfan …check out the two links in my signature at the bottom of my post if you like…you can see some of my best photgraphs. I am also a model railroader, too, I model the modern day UP.
as far as your question…well…
Teh GE AC6000 is a beast. the produce over 6000 HP and are tremendous pullers. However, they had a problem with breaking crankshafts, and had other problems as well.
Teh AC4400 on the other hand, has a few less horespower, but seems to have proven more reliable…and there are more out there riding the rails…
You may enjoy this website…
https://www.getransportation.com/homepage/index.asp?SMSESSION=NO
it is the website of the manufacture of the AC4400 and AC6000, General Electric
Hope that helps, and WELCOME…please do come back!
WELCOME RAFFI!, i am alex, and i live in australia. i haven’t been here these last couple of days, and just thought i woiuld let you know i am not dead. school is now my life, tedious, luckily not much homework. otherwise, not much else going on.
a question: is it true that in alot of areas trains only do 79 mph, because if they do 80 there is a whole lot of fencing stuff that they need to do?
nothing eles to say, so bye.
EDIT: (tommorow, my time, 4:25 your time where is everybody? i can’t find anyone?
yeah welcome guys i cant seem to post pict’s. it’s getting fusterating. see look what happens when i post the URL
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well I have been busy with hockey games over the past weekends including one in Charlotte. I have been playing with my new SLI AC4400CW’s (streamlines) and now have a 4 day weekend with 2 hockey games and a BRAND NEW Top 40 Station (first time in Augusta since 10/3/04 @ 2:00 A.M. YAHOOOO on 105.7 which is now country) it is HDTV 98.3
kevin
Alex, you posted at one in the morning…most of us were asleep!
Oscaletrain,s the img tags musg niot be capitalized. Did you right click on the pic, go to propertiers, and get that adress from there?
Well guys…I feel like crap. I got home from school, did some homework, then at 4:30 went to sleep, and here i am at 6:00…jeez, my shool is trying to kill me!
Cheers!
Wow, was I happy today.
The Spani***eacher was not here today, and boy was I happy. I was talking to Brianna, and a couple of my friends said that it looked like were flirting, and to tell you the truth, I did not even notice that we were. Well, I would not mind at all if we flirted more, because I do like her, so…
I forgot who asked, but the CN just took out one of the tracks on Proctor Hill. It hadnt been used for awhile tho…and James Im not jealous, I have a SD45T-2, or in DMIR terms…SD40-3!
I want pics tho Alec…
raftrainup–Welcome! I do hope that you enjoy it here! And do stick around…as alot of conversation not just regarding trains goes on here. (The next biggest topic is school…)
Alec–Thanks! It isn’t exactly common to see an H1 SD40-2 out here anyways. The locomotive in front of it was a BNSF C44-9W in H2 as stated in the caption below the photo.
Oskar–What special CSX units have you seen? I’ve seen 1, the “Spirit of West Virginia”, 500, the “Spirit of Grafton”, 602, the “Spirit of Maryland”, 5000 and 5001 the “Diversity in Motion” units and 8206, the so called “Spirit of Bush.”
Still waiting on their F40PHs and their SD80MACs. I’m supposing their new F40s are going to be painted in YN3… But who gives, I like that scheme!
BTW, when are the AC6000CWs going to start being repainted to YN3…[:D]? It would be interesting to see those CW60ACs in that scheme…!!
So, going to Berea this Saturday…Can’t wait! And on Monday, my Art Teacher is going!!! Because her son loves trains and I told her about it. This is a first. But it will also suck a lil’, don’t know why, I just feel it will…
Talk to ya’ll later…
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Railfanning with a teacher!? Wowsa! Good luck with that! Ohh, and I was just looking at your latest round of pics, Richard- Very nice!
Hey guys,
I haven’t been on lately, it’s been crunch time on the module. We had a snow day today, which saved my butt is getting things done in time for the show, I basically worked all day on the module except for meals and shoveling snow. But, I’ve got the module to a presentable point at least, so I’m happy. Pictures will follow on Monday.
Chris, When you know for sure what your plans are for the weekend one way or the other drop me an e-mail. I probably won’t check my mail after very early Saturday morning though, so after that I might not see it.
I’m going to head out of this place, I’m getting sleepy and I’ve got to finnish some touch up work on the module (I got the day off again by a planned teacher inservice, which is convienent). I’ll probably stop in tomorrow night quick, but after that I probably won’t be on till Monday.
Noah…Out
Noah- I will not know the outcome of my weekend until this saturaday night. If my dad can go, he and I will be meeting a freind of my dads out there in Madison, but I will not know if I am going until the minute I would be leaving, which would be around 4:30 in the evening…so, if I am out there…what is the name of your group? What does your layout look like, and what do YOU look like, so of I do make it out I will find you…sorry but this is how it wound up working out due to my dads schedule.
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what i mean is when i came back at 4:25 noone was here? not at one in the morning.
tmcc man: i see your talking to a girl you like. good. i can’t understand girls. like this girl who i kinda like, she likes me one minute, then is all funny the next. and ain’t it funny that the girls you like always don’t like you back?
on sunday i am going to wet’n wild water world. as the name sugessts it is a theme park with water based rides. not related to trains, but ohwell.
progess with my layout has been limited, and i can’t see that changing soon. don’t have the$$ needed.
enough from me, i gotta go.
Chris, We are the “Southern Wisconsin Sandhouse Crew.” We’ll be really the only bigger layout in the new upstairs section of the show, although there will be a few smaller displays I think. And ours will be the one where almost all the modules are only partially finnished ;-). I take it you would be at the show on Sunday then if at all. Sunday the best time to catch me would be between 10-3 sometime, as that’s when I’ll be around the layout.
Unfortunately I don’t have my mug shot up anywhere on the internet. But, the simplest way to find me would be, when you get to the layout, ask one of the guys standing around it in Orange shirts(not one of the guys that is part of the NMRA though and working the show, but instead someone in the module group, probably inside the layout or inside the rope baracade around it) where Noah is. They can direct you over to me, and from there you can introduce yourself.
I can understand about crazy schedules, I’ve had a few weerkends like thay myself lately. If we happen to meet up that would be good, but if not that’s alright. There is always next year.
Well, I’m going to get off for today, I’ve got to start gather stuff up to take to the show. I’ve got off school today, which is really convinent because set up for the show is today…
Noah…Out
Rick- I have seen 295 Spirt of Clincfield, 356 Spirt of Bunswick, 391 Spirt of Dante, 454 Spirt of Mongolia, 700 Spirt of Cumberland, 789 Spirt of Nashville, 5107 Spirt of W. Thomas Rice. I am not sure of these 3 4685 Spirt of Mulberry, 4688 Spirt of Tampa, 4699 Spirt of Miami. I have not seen the SD40-2 spirts I know there is 8077 and the 8206.
The new F40’s will be painted in the YN3 if you have seen pics of the special trains with the coaches like the ‘‘Kentucky Durby Train’’ or ‘‘The Masters Train’’ they have YN3 locos on them.
I do not know when they are going to paint the CW60AC’s but it would be wierd.
note I have seen the 699 Diversity in Motion
kevin
Lol, ok Max, here she is. I may go grab one of them SD40-3’s, i dont know, athearn is making another SD38-2, so im in a bundle. But on my plate now , is a load. I need to buy, alteast another SOO SD60, and another WC GP38-2, both Athearn RTR. Then i may find some room for the DMIR. But it all depends on the deals i get. I go to the train show everyear at the state fair grounds, and get some good stuff. Last year i got a CNW SD60 for 50 BUCKS! Brand new!
But on the topic of real trains, i saw the WC 7530 ( finally a WC SD45 back again ) and a BNSF SD40-2, # 8006.
Alec
Hey everyone.
We had a lot of gusts here last night nad into this morning. The power went out quite a few times and a lot of the work the teachers planned for us did not get completed, so Tuesday will be a day with a lot of work.
Alexander13, I do not really have to worry about that. Many of the girls that I liked liked me back and we had great relationships, and most of them are still really good friends of mine. I am the kind of person that would like to be friends after we break up. Now, I do not know about Brianna right now, but I might start chasing her. I hope I can get her, before someone else gets lucky and gets her before I do.