SAFN SAAP
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SAFN SAAP

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SAFN SAAP was last seen:
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    1. Jim James
      Jim James
      Hey Manny. You still kickin?
      Jim
    2. ranulf
      ranulf
      Hello! I've been looking at your forum posts covering the TOC era. I am in the planning stages of my next layout which will be a similar era, so I hoped to strike up an acquaintance. My name is Ian, and I'm designing a roughly 8'x16' N scale freelance layout based primarily on the logging and apple industries "somewhere in the Ozarks".

      I just wanted to say hello based on our shared interest in era.
    3. micsmaster
      micsmaster
      I now have a picture of the 4500 with the bell and headlight how to I send it to you to see if you can make a pad out of it Carl (micsmaster)
    4. wpmoreland719
      wpmoreland719
      Hey Manny, the mouse pads look awesome, all of them! I really like the one of Jim's train pulling into the station and the SD45 no. 911. You definitely have a customer in waiting.

      Pat
    5. wpmoreland719
      wpmoreland719
      SAFN SAAP: so are you the artist formerly known as "Sabrr"? (lol)
    6. gjslsffan
      gjslsffan
      OK Manny thanks I will check it out.
      Tom
    7. Jim James
      Jim James
      I shipped you some trees today via UPS. Have fun with them. Let me know when they arrive and what you think. Feel free to modify to suite your area.
    8. frisco1522
      frisco1522
      Want to trade it for a Bachmann Frisco 1632?
    9. Jim James
      Jim James
      Thanks for that. I'm going to have to "get me sum" and get creative. That lights only decoder sounds like it would be a good choice for my caboose. Good find, Manny!
    10. Jim James
      Jim James
      I made a trip to Greenbrier today and brought home plenty of ballast material. I call it the Greenbrier Ballast and Soil Company. I will dry and sift some bags for your developing right of way. Give me a few days to process it and I'll notify you upon shipment.
    11. Jim James
      Jim James
      Tell you what, Manny. You get the domes and spoked pilot truck or wheels from eBay for me and I'll make it right with you. That is, if you're getting some stuff anyway. Let me know. Even if I use my Roundhouse 4-4-0 I'll still need detail parts. The driver diameter is within an inch of the prototype. I'll have wait for it to arrive and check it out. The cab roof would have to be changed.
    12. Jim James
      Jim James
      No worries. I'm just stirring up some fun at my own expense:) I do like the BNSF because they keep the old Frisco lines in use. I'll do a BNSF diorama someday but all layout plans are Frisco focused. Are you making sawdust soon?
    13. Jim James
      Jim James
      Hey Manny, any layout progress? I've slowed down but still moving forward. My next big project is the Castor River bridge and Fall scenery. Hope all is well.
      Jim
    14. Jim James
      Jim James
      Let me have your address so that I can send you some prepared dirt and money for the switch stands. Thanks.
    15. Sirfoldalot
      Sirfoldalot
      Manny - anytime!

      Sherrel D. Weems
      33920 Summit View Pl
      Temecula, CA 92592

      Check, MO, Cash, or whatever - please NO Pay Pal.
    16. train61
      train61
      WELL TO START:
      1.THE WIND BLEW DOWN A FEW TREES HERE. DID OK, ALL SAFE HERE IN BAMA.
      2.GOT MY RED BIRD PLUS COACHES :).
      3.HAVE A FEW MORE STEAM LOCO'S TO WORK WITH ON MY 3500 0-6-0'S PROJECT .
      4. GOT A 2-8-2 HEAVY OFF OF EBAY.
      5. AND THE WIFE HASNT FOUND OUT HOW MUCH I SPENT ON EBAY AS OF YET.......
      SO, THINGS ARE LOOKING UP THAT WAY.
      I HOPE ALL IS WELL WITH YA'LL IN TEXAS
      OK LATER
      JASON
    17. slsfrr (Jerome Lutzenberger RIP 9/1/2018)
      slsfrr (Jerome Lutzenberger RIP 9/1/2018)
      Manny,

      Send me your email address and I will email a couple of pictures of 76/77 I took eons ago. Not very good but might help. Send it to my email address:
      slsfrr@friscorailroad.com

      Jerome
    18. friscomike
      friscomike
      My pleasure. Good luck with your quest. I wish I had purchased a few of those back in the day...
    19. friscomike
      friscomike
      Hey,

      Sadly I did not find the Mellor kit of that number or any number. With all the dealers there today I was expecting to find it. I had my buddies look for it, too. Guess you'll need to keep looking.
      Best, mike
    20. friscomike
      friscomike
      I've got the Mellor kit on my list to look for.
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  • About

    Location:
    San Antonio
    Occupation:
    HO
    First Name:
    Levi
    Last Name:
    Matthews
    Era:
    1885-1910 San Antonio, Texas
    Area of Interest:
    Southwest
    Special Interests:
    model railroading
    Why are you joining this site?:
    F
    Early 1900's San Antonio fictionally (almost reality!) absorbed by the Frisco when Yoakum put 13 million into the San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railroad (That happened!). In April of 1902, the Frisco purchased the SA&AP, but at the comptrollers desk, just before the Comptroller was to seal the deal and stamp it, lawyers from the Southern Pacific barged in with a court order stopping the deal. Through dirty dealings, the SA&AP was stripped from the hands of the Frisco, and entered in the hands of the dirty SP.

    My railroad, the San Antonio & San Francisco, is the fictitious merger that was created when the Frisco became the controlling interest as if the 1902 sale that was advertised in the New York Times was completed. This merger gave the Frisco access to the sea on the Texas Coast in Corpus, and Aransas Pass, and up into the Hill Country to Kerrville, and eventually set to merge with the Frisco Line in Brady, TX.

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    Levi Benjamin Matthews
    YesteRRails L.L.C., Owner/Operator
    San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railroad (1884-1925)
    San Antonio, Fredericksburg & Northern Railway (1913-1917)
    "Reflecting the Frisco influence in the railroads of the Texas Hill Country"
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