01-04-2011, 06:39 PM
The news story is saddening (but the story itself is priceless!)
The two cars look pretty good from my house, but of course, My house is much too far away to comment on the aroma test.
The Central Valley trucks are also priceless! I have several pairs of those Express 4-wheel Passenger trucks, and they are of the stuff you write home about! Free-rolling, sprung and equalized, they were considered the creme-de-la-creme back in the sixties! As a young man in my early twenties, fresh out of the Army in the early seventies, it was my goal to put Central Valley trucks under ever piece of rolling stock that I built, which at that time, was a lot of Central Valley and La Belle wooden kits. I discovered several pair of Central Valley HOn3 arch bars in the "Trucks" box when I was unpacking!
And for those unfamiliar with ataching Central Valley trucks, if you used their method of attaching the trucks, you could "snap" them on an off (to gain easy access to couplers, etc.) but the downside was that the "snap" (yes ... a real snap) was affixed with a small machine screw and nut ... the nut being inside the car body.
"It seemed like a good idea at the time ..."
The two cars look pretty good from my house, but of course, My house is much too far away to comment on the aroma test.
The Central Valley trucks are also priceless! I have several pairs of those Express 4-wheel Passenger trucks, and they are of the stuff you write home about! Free-rolling, sprung and equalized, they were considered the creme-de-la-creme back in the sixties! As a young man in my early twenties, fresh out of the Army in the early seventies, it was my goal to put Central Valley trucks under ever piece of rolling stock that I built, which at that time, was a lot of Central Valley and La Belle wooden kits. I discovered several pair of Central Valley HOn3 arch bars in the "Trucks" box when I was unpacking!
And for those unfamiliar with ataching Central Valley trucks, if you used their method of attaching the trucks, you could "snap" them on an off (to gain easy access to couplers, etc.) but the downside was that the "snap" (yes ... a real snap) was affixed with a small machine screw and nut ... the nut being inside the car body.
"It seemed like a good idea at the time ..."
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln