Just a quick e-card for all my fellow Friscophiles out there! (Note: SLSF content - That engine in the picture is one of the 1879 Rogers Ten Wheeler after the 1889 renumbering!)
Great way to end the year! Thanks for the sterling effort. (Now where did I put the picture of "Sea Biscuit" pulling the "Meteor" so I can make a card, too?) George
Merry Christmas to all! What could be better? Frisco and Christmas!! The Frisco lives in many scales here!!
This is the only crew that didnt mind going to work today With bidness picking up trough the Holidays we find an extra merchandise train called, SLSF SD45 907 with 2 covered wagons another SD45, for a westbound hotshot. Here we have the hoghead, fireman, head brakemen with Santa Clause and his helper Looks like the brakeman and fireman are headed to the trailing power as their aren't enough seats for everyone on the head end. Good thing the lead unit is one of the cleaner ones as Santa and his helper might get all that diesel soot and oil all over them. The wreath on the front handrail was made from a pipe cleaner I circled and cut, painted Green, with some brass wire strands painted Red for the ribbon. I hope you all got some Frisco stuff for Christmas and got to spend some time with the people you wanted to. Merry Christmas everyone!
Excellent modeling and photogaphy, Tom! OH... and what AWESOME modeler created that SUPERB GP7 #577???
Boy am I glad you saw that Andre That Geep I got from you so many years ago is still one of my favorite engines, she is currently working the Trimmer job. Although cant find a crew for it today. Some kind of illness has run rampant thru the terminal, probably just a 24hr bug.
Judging by the looks of that helper, no wonder Santa is a jolly old elf...... No Frisco stuff this year, but I DID get a couple of Digitrax decoders that will go into some switchers (one of them being a BLI SW7), plus a book called "Last Train to Wymore", which describes the decline & death of a railroad town in southeast Nebraska. At one time Wymore had one east-west and one NW-running line (all CB&Q) running through, plus a roundhouse, shops and turntable. As of the middle of the last decade, BNSF abandoned the lines thru Wymore, and truncated the Wymore-Crete line to Beatrice I got this book because my mother and most of her siblings were born & raised in Wymore, and her family has a presence in Beatrice (which is my birthplace). If I had another railroad I wanted to model, I'd do the "Q". And one can scoff at BN all one wants, but they did hold on to those old Geeps- SD9s were used in Wymore for years.
Man, I'd say!! Those Preiser folks have an attention to detail, that is remarkable.... A hobby shop gave me those figures probably 7-8 years ago, just found them again and had an idea. Santa was good to me this year as well.
