Seen in Print

[Roy]

Did I mention I took my Lionel General bash to the train meet Sunday?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

A "Lionel General bash," what's that?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

It would be nice too see some more talk about trains.

Yes, but that seems to also be a declining area of interest to too many on this forum anymore.

I await your inspiration for us to do so.

Snarky lad today,

Try looking in this thread: viewtopic.php?f=10&t=13727&start=435

I post a new completed project here every so often showing the starting point and finished product.

I do probably build a car or run through a project every month or so. I don't post them all on MTJ since there seems to be very limited interest.

I tried to post bits on scenery and structures and that died a quiet and distracted death in this part of the forum.

[webenda]

Also, for further evidence and on-site research, we went on a "dig" in some of the ancient Ordovician Age rock layers of Ohio and found brachiopods, a couple of which I have, to this day.

Brachiopods are more evolved than those humans that evolved from something else.
Here is a video of a Lingula Brachiopod swimming in a petri dish. < https://youtu.be/hpdq-_N39vw >
A chart in the video (my contribution to Seen in Print) shows that the Brachiopod is 4 evolutionary steps from a common ancestor while you are only 3 steps away.

[HONDO74]

I always thought of the Club Car Lounge as being for Off topic discussions. There are other areas on MTJ for talking about trains if that is what members want to do. Anyone can start train related topics. Just not a lot of activity going on in that area.

[Roy]

A "Lionel General bash," what's that?

http://www.modeltrainjournal.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=17729

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Oh, yes yes yes, I see, like a kit-bash
but not of a building or kit but of an actual model of a train . That didn't occur to me at all since I never approached such a project and have very, very rarely ever seen one. I remember this posting of yours, too.
Thanx.

[rogruth]

I always thought of the Club Car Lounge as being for Off topic discussions. There are other areas on MTJ for talking about trains if that is what members want to do. Anyone can start train related topics. Just not a lot of activity going on in that area.

We are a rather size limited group here on MTJ.
I have nothing to post about my trains that I have not already posted.
Maybe we just don't have any train stuff to post although the 2R guys
usually find train stuff to talk about.

Thinking along these lines may explain why this 3 railer only subscribes
to O Scale Trains. Always seems to be something new there.
On the other hand, CTT and OGR seem to me to be the same old stuff
every edition.

[Roy]

...yes, I see, like a kit-bash.

Right. I suspect it's more common amongst scale model railroaders. But, Lionel still issues separate-sale Generals, especially at Halloween and Xmas, for reasonable money. Plus, you can get non-collector grade modern era Generals second hand. About 3/4 of the engine is 1/4" to the foot scale, as built. I was just trying to show that it's not too hard to make a good 1/48 scale model of a period 4-4-0, using pretty much the stock General parts.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I always thought of the Club Car Lounge as being for Off topic discussions. There are other areas on MTJ for talking about trains if that is what members want to do. Anyone can start train related topics. Just not a lot of activity going on in that area.

Kind of sad, too.....

[HONDO74]

I always thought of the Club Car Lounge as being for Off topic discussions. There are other areas on MTJ for talking about trains if that is what members want to do. Anyone can start train related topics. Just not a lot of activity going on in that area.

Kind of sad, too.....

Even in the Club Car there are only about 5 active members posting. Maybe people are just getting tired of trains. Even in other forum's I have noticed that most of the conversation is just repeats of what has already been said.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Maybe people are just getting tired of trains.

Even sadder still....

Even in other forum's I have noticed that most of the conversation is just repeats of what has already been said.

All dying out.......

[HONDO74]

Maybe people are just getting tired of trains.

Even sadder still....

Even in other forum's I have noticed that most of the conversation is just repeats of what has already been said.

All dying out.......

Or maybe people have decided that their life doesn't need to revolve around toy trains. For some it has become an obsession.

[Roy]

I posted about this in the 3 rail train section, but I went to a train meet last Sunday. It was busier than ever. Mostly older guys like us, but a few younger ones, too. I should point out I have been going to this meet since 1981.

[John Webster]

Nice kit bash Roy.

There is an io groups forum devoted to modelling Civil War railroads. The group isn't scale specific but they have produced a lot of engines based on the HO Mantua General. Some of the members offer Shapeways parts to modify it and one has printed a book on how to modify it to look like it did during the famous chase which was considerably different from the Mantua version. Cary (Bowser) used to offer a couple of cast metal boilers to convert the Mantua General to 1900 era 4-4-0s.

Unfortunately 4-4-0s are hard to find in O and HO with the General Models in O and some AHM in HO being the few affordable exceptions.

I have been looking for an Alexander NYC 999 (I saw one once) and a Lobaugh 4-4-0.