Actually,I didn't take the offer from Union Carbide and after evaluating 9 other offers and working on my MS at OSU i went to GE in Cleveland...
Hi, John. Wow that looks great! I find the National Carbon very interesting since I worked many days and evenings in the Blair yards as a summer...
My father was thee Chief Clerk to the Trainmaster and Road Foreman of Engines from 1936 through the seventies in Lim Ohio on th NKP. Twice he was...
When i worked as a fireman on the NKP in the summers of the mid sixties while going to college it was not uncommon to have extra locomotives that...
The last 2 months that I have passed Parachute CO there have been bo cars in the yard only the Caboose. The number of covered hoppers and tank...
Changing my upper deck from single track of flex track to double track kata wooden ties. This is the area between Bellevue and Arcadia on the...
I got my two from two different sources and they worked great with minimal slow speed issues. However, one 765 had a loose screw that takes care...
actually class acts in my mind
Inkaneer, Water based paints are dispersions of pigment and acrylic particles, which are very much smaller than the pigment particles. Upon...
I see this BNSF caboose in the Parachute, CO BNSF yards on my monthly trips to Denver from Ridgway. This caboose is sometimes attached to a...
How about a Fairbanks Morse switcher in NKP. I worked as a fireman on one many times in the summers of 64,65,66. What interesting machine and so...
I have found N Scale Trainboard incredibly educational, useful, funny and i thank John Colombo for encouraging me to join many years ago. It was...
The Nickel Plate ran short hood forward all the way pack to 1958. When I worked there in 1964 to 1966 all ran short hood forward and all units...
I have been using this technique, learned from John, for nearly 6 years and only occasionally replace the tape. It is extremely easy and John is...
I also agree with the thought that a lot buildings, etc remained long after steam disappeared. I went to my hometown of Lima, Ohio a year ago for...
I think that this is an interesting dilemma. I currently have 2 Berkshires and a PA1 with sound, so really no idling. They basically chase each...
Actually off subject but I have had a 2004 VW Toureg, a 2006 Audi A4 , a 2008 Toyota Sequoia, a 2011 Audi A6 and now a 2014 Grand Cherokee all of...
Very happy to see your progress and admire your determination. I am curious. Are any of the Shays patterned on the Lima Locomotive works? I...
As someone who grew up with the NKP (Parents- office- and grandfather - conductor, who worked there their whole lives) and worked there as a...
