Hobo Jungle

2railjon · Postby **2railjon** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 5:57 pm

The truck detail is pretty incredible.

San Diegan · Postby **San Diegan** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 7:06 pm

The girls from the EggMobile like to spend their evenings honing their marksmanship.

San

2railjon · Postby **2railjon** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 7:49 pm

LOL,San!!! They actually may be related to me!!! Here is an actual-no-bull-genuine-photograph of me from 1958!!!! :lol:

This may explain my oddness and attraction to the rolling mother egg!!

Frank53 · Postby **Frank53** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 7:57 pm

and a few of their grand daughters:

2railjon · Postby **2railjon** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 8:11 pm

LMAO, Frank!! Yes, my clan is many.
I've often wondered why all the other kids on the block got trains for their birthday or Christmas, but on mine, dad always gave me machine guns. :roll:

San Diegan · Postby **San Diegan** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 9:28 pm

And those are just the pre-op boys in Jon's family. You should see the real girls.

San

nevets68 · Postby **nevets68** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:38 pm

HighRailJon -

The MachineGun your "firing"...is that a .50 caliber?

Jackie Blue · Postby **Jackie Blue** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:52 pm

I'm sure those ladies could show the Taliban what a little fingernail polish and mascara can really do.

2railjon · Postby **2railjon** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 7:18 am

Nevets, Yes, it's an M-2 Browning .50 still in use by the military. The one behind it is a Browning .30
Here are some more family members on an outting.

Frank53 · Postby **Frank53** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 9:00 am

amalie · Postby **amalie** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 9:12 am

Yow - looks a G.Gordon Liddy convention.

RE the 3rd Rail Hudson - I am still looking at the J3a from 2002 from Lionel (6-28072), I might have one at a little under 700. (I never did buy those K-Line Mikes). Does 3rd Rail offer one with J3a options (inset feedwater heater, Scullin disc drivers) and a standard tender. What does the PT require in termns of radius?

Doggone it, Tramp, now Im gonna be buyin' brass again. The last time that happened when I was a lil' HO guy, I got in a lot of trouble here on the homefront, if you know what I mean...

Tramp · Postby **Tramp** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 9:13 am

When I was a kid, that's the kind of war games I would've loved to have played.

Amalie, seems to be a spring fever thing. Even I'm dying to get another one. I wish Jon would give us a comparision of cast to brass since he just made the switch. Any possibilty of that, Jon?

Frank53 · Postby **Frank53** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 9:26 am

Frank53 · Postby **Frank53** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 9:38 am

Don't make a peep - or we'll shoot! -

2railjon · Postby **2railjon** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 11:42 am

WOW!! Things are heating up in here!!! :lol:

Amalie, 3rd Rail offers the Hudson in a J1a and a J1e version. No scullin discs.

Tramp, from what Ive noticed so far, the brass has a much smoother surface compared to a cast surface. There are no "cast in" pipes on the brass engines as there are on my cast engines. The brass engines all have sprung drivers where my cast engines don't. A very important difference is that the brass engines sit properly over the trailing trucks without the common gap found on my cast models. Also the wheels on the front trucks are the proper size as compared to the under sized wheels of my cast units.

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