Recent content by coolhandmatt

Bought the catalog Monday! I've had it in the past but when I asked about all this stuff I totally forgot that Walthers had all those photos and supplys right in the catalog. DUH :rolleyes: . I actually stepped away from model trains to play with the real ones but I finally got a wild hair to...

Yeah the car is full of hot chicks. I don't know why its lighted i'm assuming its from the 60's and its made by Lionel, HO. I guess it was made back when they had all the junk with moving parts and other what nots. I might just have to put those sounds in it, but first I need to fix it all...

I need to fix it up a little and it will be sweet. It was worse than that when I got it. :thumb:

Car I know you havent seen in a while:

Yeah I couldn't make it any bigger or the video would be to big. Exactally I think the whole railroad is on a average of 2% grade. Did you see how man heavy weight cars was on it? That poor engine can barely handle it! _____________________________________________________________ Ok NOW...

Here is a movie that I produced of the WM734. http://www.gottrains.com/movies/734.rm Thought some would enjoy it. There's still gotta be some steam fans out there somewheresign1 . If you can play it make it full screen, you'll love it.

I won't even say that I started “modeling” when I did because I was actually playing and tearing up trains. My first memories of trains were my dads lionels on the ping-pong table, and my first set was a Bachmann Santa Fe (watchamacallit) you know with the bright silver finish. From there it was...

Yeah I've got the station (bought one when it came out), you wouldn't believe how many there we're in my valley. Anyways the kits are expensive. I actually need two of them for the layout I want to build but that will have to wait - one thing at a time. ShayGetz thats exactally what I needed...

Ok I have another Quest but this one is easy: http://www.ebvfd.com/tradition/c2.htm Go here and help me find anyone of these trucks if you want. If you don't thats cool because we found the truck that I really wanted. Anyways the link is to East Banks Fire Department web site that I built...

Look here thats a good starting point, sweet! Now if I could only figure out if I could move the front mounted pump to the back.

IF youll notice on front of the depot there is a bucked that says fire on it, before our fire department that was the fire suppression. They would come running yelling fire fire. In the 40s they build an alarm to warn everyone and bring help. There is a building in the pictures (the one right...