Texas Zephyr,
Don’t you go the club in the Union Pacific basement?? I’ve been trying to visit there.
I’ve met Curt. He came to the club one saturday right after he joined the forum.
How was I supposed to know they has a sale??? I don’t get downto caboose very often. Are there any left???
-dekruif
wheres global warming when you need it?
[;)]
GEARHEAD426
i think it took a hike
Uh Huh Sure… I am glad to see the moisture it has been so dry! I find it hard to believe that there is 4 feet in parker though. Mabye drifts up to 4 feet… Most of the snow here in lakewood has turned back to water and the main streets are wet side streets slushy, 3 inches left on the grass… I really dont look forward to the black Ice in the AM though.
I dont mind getting togeather with any one just give me a place and time I will see if we can fit it in the scedual.
Curt
Yes.
You don’t make the daily pilgrimage? But don’t feel bad. I just realized you were N scale, these were HO so nothing lost.
This Saturday is the Youth In Model Railroading Expo (attempt to make some funds so they can go to the national convention) in Westminster. First Presbeterian<sp?> church - near Mizzell’s Hobby. I’ll be heading up that way with the kids. As dekruif says, Friday night I’m almost always down in the basement of Union Station. This week is open house so I am expecting to be busy with lots of public. I’m thinking train video night some time after I get my MR layout contest entry done and after the Great American Train show…
Maybe we should all meet up at the clearance shelf at Caboose Hobbies.[;)]
I dabble in HO scale. Still might have bought one. My goal for this/next year is to paint a modern day engine(8-40c4,c44-9w.ac4400cw) in Southern’s Tuxedo
Here is a picture of the snow.
This is a picture of my sister’s fountain.
Bet I had you fooled.[:D][:)]
-dekruif
I just watched the CBS eevning news and they said it was snowing in Colorado at the rate of 3" an hour…I live in New England, and I can tell you that 3" per hour is really rough. The plows cannot keep up with the snow at that rate, and if there is strong winds as well…you might as well go sit it out. And, they just said that 4 fire fighters in California have died in that bad forest fire, and it was set. I hope they hang the person that set this fire.
We are just shy of 20" at the Air Force Academy (my wife is Air Force). It looks like we are done though. Thank goodness. That sure is a sight seeing all those trucks lined up waiting for I-25 north to open again.
Lucky you… I’m still stuck with them…
stupid Lake effect…
I LOVE SNOW!!
no matter how it gets for me and I can get ANY WHERE.
YEP GOT it to work
Yeah but what they don’t tell you is that it wasn’t cold so it was/is melting at the rate of 2" an hour. By the time I got home today I only had about 8" left on the grass. The main roads had none but a bit of slush left. What surprised me is that Downtown Denver got very little. I live north of Denver proper and usually the further south one goes the worse it gets.
Hehehe, cool. What is that a 1972, 1974? I used to think that too until one time I slid sideways into a bank. It high centered under the vehicle and lifted all four tires off the ground. Even a hummer can’t go in those circumstances. After that I’ve always been really careful not to go into dense snow more than 2" deeper than the bottom of the vehicle.
It wasn’t melting at my house, of course we have about a thousand feet on the Springs proper.
I lived in Buffalo until about a dozen years ago when I got fed up with the taxes and poor job market and left. Yes I was used to dealing with heavy snow (I lived in Hamburg in the snowbelt to boot) but I don’t ever recall having such a large amount of snow (2 ft plus) in early October. The trees are sill full of leaves and the snow breaks them. Then you have broken branches amongst the deep snow so plowing roads becomes an entirely new challenge. Of course the kind of snow Buffalo gets is wet stuff…like lead.
Now I am with you Colorado guys but we don’t get nearly the snow that place like Buffalo gets and it is ussually much lighter than that heavy stuff in the Northeast…BUT…we got over 2 ft yesterday in Bailey and it all came down in about 10 hrs so the plows couldn’t keep up. I could get out and about but hwy 285 was a parking lot from Richmond hill to almost Crow hill (8 miles) so I just took a day off.
The problem Buffalo had two weeks ago was definatly not the snow, but as Slotracer said it was the fact that the trees all had their leavs on them. With the density of the snow that came down there was no hope for the branches. Normal snow is roughly 12" of snow = to 1" of rain. The stuff they had was 3-4" of snow to 1" of rain. My brother-in-law who lives in the center of the hardest hit area had 24" of the stuff on the ground on Fri night. By time I got there on Sat afternoon to help clean up there was only 4" left, but the downed trees were something else. It looked like a class 4 huricane came thru. The funny thing is, everybody thinks Buffalo is perpetually under snow and it does not even crack into the top 10 snowiest cities in New York.
Reminds me of the time my father drove down to California from here in Canada. Went to head over the mountans and the CHP had a roadblock up to tell people to put chains on. Dad asked what for, the policeman said snow then he had one look at the license plate on the car and said nevermind go on over.
Ric
As they say, “Welcome to my world!”
If we had snow like that right now I know I would be calling in sick and getting my snowmobile out. [:D]
That’s what my wife would say. She is from Ishpeming, MI (da U.P.). I have never seen so much snow in my life until we visited there one winter. She is a true Yooper, and loved yesterday’s little snow event. I guess all we needed was hot pasty and cold beer to compliment the day.
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it’s a 1974/1975 Power wagon 3/4 ton… yeah it’s still running!! am keeping it up working most of time I do my own repairs on it… and plan on put replace 360 and tranny in next year… am sure it could use a paint job again.
I not putting any big tires or lifs on it just keep it as it is… it’s good old truck.