Sad news this Thursday afternoon. A C130 firefighting aircraft operated by US company, Coulson Aviation has crashed in the Snowy Monaro region of NSW with the loss of all 3 crew members on board. No further details as yet.
Alan - I have some old blue box AC4400 that I added some details from Details West. Coupler bars,MU hoses, air hose and plows can make for a nice engine.
Thanks. Please note that those round hay bales came from Montana...Thanks again.Willie - Like your photos even though the scene isn't completed.
Usually, the change the part to the left of the @. OTOH, some mail clients can block an entire domain, so the savvier spammers alter the other side, as well. There was a time, back in the elder days, when using a * after the common part of the address would do the trick (tester@testone and testy@test2 could both be blocked by test*@test*). I don't think tat still works.Thanks for everyone's ideas. I found an old email from early December that seemed to have a slightly different address. I wonder if they are using multiple sources to spam their ads? I am going to block them again AND keep unsubscribing..
Looking at the pieces alongside the puzzle, my god you're anal! And I say that with all possible manly affection.Progress on that jigsaw puzzle I got for Christmas. Sorry it's a little blurry - but so was I after getting this far with it. This is one tough puzzle. Can you recognize any of your favorites?
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Life is fun. Have a good day everyone.
Do you have an Adblocker program on your computer?Warning: Semi-rant
I have now reached the end of my patience with AMERICAN MODEL RAILROAD ACADEMY spamming activities. For the last couple months, I have gotten 4 or 5 "offers" a week for their video services. I have "unsubscribed" on three different occasions and blocked their emails once. I probably should not have tried one of their "free"videos, which I decided was not useful to me.
Any suggestions as to what else to do?
The coastal fires have had some help from heavy rain, but not long enough to be drought breaking, flash flooding, which has brought it's own problems with it. New South Wales and Victoria are still carrying the worst of the fires. They are still badly effected by the smoke in the main cities and would you believe, thunderstorm generated massive dust storms off the dry "outback". Melbourne, in Victoria's south has had hailstorms of golf ball and larger hail doing lots of damage. The Australian Tennis Open, which is 'on' at the moment has had delays caused by the smoke, another when a dust storm combined with a rainstorm and coated the outside courts and stands with muddy rain.Ray - Sorry to hear about the airplane crash and loss of life. Do hope some progress is being made on those fires.
That's alright then.Looks like a slow night tonight, got the CNW patched to AOKX (Arkansas- Oklahoma).View attachment 43453
That was my thought too. SP was a high choice when I was returning to model trains, back about '06 (found out the other day, I joined my club in '07) because of how good they looked once faded and weathered. Best colors for that. But, then I found MRL with it's high mix of new and old. Much easier to find rolling stock that fitted the late era. But everytime someone shows up at the club with SP, I'm all eyes. Love Athearn's new release SD45T-2's.Do the paint jobs need a touch up?Almost too shiny.
They aren't that shiny in person. This area is right under the lights, and that kind of makes it worse. Several pieces are brand new and haven't been weathered yet, others only lightly. When I mix eras, the steam goes away and there is a mix of Black Widow and bloody nose, so the Bloody nose will not be heavily weathered. It gets a flat coat, a little road dust, some exhaust, like that.Alan- a really nice shot!
Do the paint jobs need a touch up?Almost too shiny.
Seriously, a great variety of excellent engines.