USA TRAINS CONTAINER CAR (CN)

I forgot to mention that I was at a Train Show in November at Dartmouth NS Canada, not much G Scale, but I was able to pick up a USA Trains CN Container car with CN containers. This is a beautiful car, excellent detail. I cannot run it on my indoor layout, but I will be running it behind my USA Trains BNSF SD70MAC, which I set up on my patio during the summer, cannot wait to see this car behind my locomotive.

Take care for now Gary

BLR Not Much Happening

Since I got home from visiting my Daughters in Toronto Canada, not much has happen with the BLR. I got sick and ended up in the hospital and got home the day before Christmas. Still unable to stand for any amount of time. Seeing the specialist on Dec 30th, hopefully they can figure out what is going on.Been watching a lot of trains running on YOUTUBE, not the same as running your own.Well lets hope that 2009 will be a better year health wise and I can get back to running trains on my layout

Take Care

Gary

Returned from Trip

Well I am back from my trip to see my grand daughter and I had a wonderful time. My friend in Fredricton has installed the decorder and sound system in my SD70 Mac and does it ever sound great. The weekend after I got back I attended a train show in Dartmouth NS. Not much G scale, but I was able to pick up a USA Trains container car with two containers. This car will run behind my SD70Mac when I set it up again in the spring on my patio.We just had two snow storms within 3 day, looks nice out there,but that enough for now. Have decorations up on the patio. Glad I did this about a week before the snows came. Sure save a lot of misery. Well take care for now .

SD70MAC-BNSF Running on layout

Well I just got back from spending three day with a friend in NB Canada. He has a large G scale indoor layout with 10ft radius curves, so I was finally able to run my USA Trains SD70MAC. Man did it ever look great teamed up with a Geep 38 and Geep 30 pulling a large amount of freight cars. I took some pictures with my diesel teamed up with his two dash 9's also. I left the SD70MAC with him to install a decoder and also sound. I cannot wait to get it back to hear the sound it will produce. Well I am off to Ontario Canada to visit my granddaughter for two weeks and I am taking the train, my last trip by train was in 2000. Bye for now
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BLR Taking up track on Patio

Well we have tropical storm Hanna approaching this evening, so I went out and removed the track that I have laid down on the patio to run my SD70MAC. I was afraid that the wind would lift the track and send it flying into outer space and hitting someone down below. I will not be putting the track back after the storm because this summer has been wet and rainy. Now we are into September and the temperatures will be dropping and it will not be very pleasant sitting out on the patio. Lets hope that we have better weather next summer. I still have my indoor layout to have fun with. So take care for now.

Running of SD 70MAC

I got to run my SD70MAC yesterday at my friends cottage. He is about two hours away from where I live. When I let home it was raining cats & dogs. I though for sure that we would be spending the whole time in his cottage just talking about trains. When I got about 40 kilometers out of Halifax the rain began to stop and by the time that I got to Truro NS it was clear and by the time I got to his cottage at Parrsbor NS an hour later it was sunny. It stayed sunny all day while back in Halifax where I left they had rain most of the day until late afternoon. We got the SD70MAC up and running but it would not take the first curve for he has R1 curves so I asked him if he had any R2 curves and he got some and we made some changes to the curve with the new sections. They were still tight but the locomotive took them. These changes to his track allow us to run this big diesel. We could not attach any cars to it for when it took the curves the body swung out so far that it caused the attached cars to be pulled right of the tracks. The diesel was able with a bit of effort to get through the curves and we were able to run her the rest of the day. It sure was nice to see it run for I have not been able to run it on my home layout because I have all R1 curves at home. It sure made for a great day even though we only watched the diesel run by itself all day. Who cares it was the fun and enjoyment that we got watching it run. Take Care.

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