Large Scale Central

The state of the hobby

General Discussion
#21
Steve Featherkile said:
My problem is the Chinese Communist Capitalists... Did I say that out loud?...

Actually, I don’t really have a problem with them, I just said that to see if I can get another rise our of Mike O’Malley. :lol: He never reads my stuff past the first sentence.

Stinker, aren’t I?


Relax Steve, dont you know? its now called Commapitalism, hard unyeilding commie prolitariet shell on the exterior, soft pliable capitalist bourgeois filling on the inside, like a great big M&M, except w/ machine guns.

#22
Mik said:
Built a 'could have been' 440 6-pack Super Bee clone out of a '73 318 Charger years ago, does that count?
Ahh, cool! In younger days I had a 1969 Coronet 500 with that little 318 V-8, very nice motor. Always kept hoping that one morning that Coronet 500 would have grown up into a Charger.
#23

I had a 1965 Barracuda with that 318. I sure enjoyed shutting down Mustangs! Of course I really enjoyed the gas war when gas went to 23 cents a gallon!

#24
Forrest Scott Wood said:
Mik said:
Built a 'could have been' 440 6-pack Super Bee clone out of a '73 318 Charger years ago, does that count?
Ahh, cool! In younger days I had a 1969 Coronet 500 with that little 318 V-8, very nice motor. Always kept hoping that one morning that Coronet 500 would have grown up into a Charger.
Mine was Plum Crazy and white - with a pistol grip 4-speed, built with a lot of help from the Direct Connection Engine and Chassis books, a friend by the name of Jim Kramer who sold Max Wedge stuff for a living, and Year One. It'd run mid to high 14's all day, go 150+, or get 18mpg depending on how you drove it. PLUS handled better than most Camaros. I'd share a picture, but......
#25

Mopar’s Rule! I built a 64 Plymouth Savoy 2dr with a 383 bored .60 over, 12-1/2:1 TRW pop-up pistons, Racer Brown cam, reworked the 727 Torqueflite and a 380 Dana rear.

I never finished the bodywork past red-oxide primer (sort of like my USMRR trains. h-m-m-m?). When I shipped overseas, I left my little brother the keys. I don’t want to know what he did to/with it while I was gone. :wink:

#26

:smiley:

As a kid I had a Volvo 122S, but my dream was always a Volvo 544.

Of course that didn’t do much for the model railroad hobby, but it sure got me places.

#27
Hans-Joerg Mueller said:
... it sure got me places.
Hey, the journey is where the fun is!
#28
Hans-Joerg Mueller said:
:D

As a kid I had a Volvo 122S, but my dream was always a Volvo 544.

Of course that didn’t do much for the model railroad hobby, but it sure got me places.


That’s like bragging you bought an Atlas HO Conrail Dash-8. I would have guessed you drove a Volvo.

#29

Well its nice to know that the made here in the USA , in the state of Indiana , Hartland Locomotive Works , that you can buy and run and modify the Hartland little Mac locos for $49.95 and up at several dealers like
http://rldhobbies.com/mightymacklocomotive.aspx
China can go to hell , and you could still run model trains , even on a little battery .
The Macs are no Dash 9 , but you can run 9 of them together , and really pull a load .

:slight_smile:

Not much into gloom and doom , but it is overcast and cloudy today …

#30
Hans-Joerg Mueller said:
:D

As a kid I had a Volvo 122S, but my dream was always a Volvo 544.

Of course that didn’t do much for the model railroad hobby, but it sure got me places.


Kewl, I had two 122s, 1966 Coupe and 1966 Wagon. The wagon had a 2.0 motor and M41 (overdrive) gearbox out of an 1800s. Ran like a scalded rabbit!

#31
Dennis Paulson said:
Well its nice to know that the made here in the USA , in the state of Indiana , Hartland Locomotive Works , that you can buy and run and modify the Hartland little Mac locos for $49.95 and up at several dealers like

:slight_smile:

Not much into gloom and doom , but it is overcast and cloudy today …


Said it before, and say it again, if I did not have a house full of the Big Red Box, I would go the Hartland route.

#32
David Hill said:
Hans-Joerg Mueller said:
:D

As a kid I had a Volvo 122S, but my dream was always a Volvo 544.

Of course that didn’t do much for the model railroad hobby, but it sure got me places.


That’s like bragging you bought an Atlas HO Conrail Dash-8. I would have guessed you drove a Volvo.

don’t make fun of Volvo. Some of them will do major A** kicking and send you home with your butt in a sack. Trust me they may look like a box and slow but man can some of them move.

by they way my car was a 69 Camero with a 327 65 Vet motor that had 425 hp. It look stock I left the 307 tags on the side but it ran real nice.

#33
David Hill said:
Hans-Joerg Mueller said:
:D

As a kid I had a Volvo 122S, but my dream was always a Volvo 544.

Of course that didn’t do much for the model railroad hobby, but it sure got me places.


That’s like bragging you bought an Atlas HO Conrail Dash-8. I would have guessed you drove a Volvo.

Well, a 122S was plenty fast enough when I was 18/20.
OTOH I never had a real car obsession like some others. As long as I got from A to B in a reasonable time in reasonable comfort, hey what more could I ask2 Should I tell you about the Citroen 2CV that would do 95kmh going downhill with a tailwind and about <30kmh uphill if you floored it? Great little car to annoy people going downhill since there was no way they could keep up flying around the curves. :lol:

#34

Garrett said:

Dennis Paulson said:
Well its nice to know that the made here in the USA , in the state of Indiana , Hartland Locomotive Works , that you can buy and run and modify the Hartland little Mac locos for $49.95 and up at several dealers like :slight_smile: Not much into gloom and doom , but it is overcast and cloudy today …

Said it before, and say it again, if I did not have a house full of the Big Red Box, I would go the Hartland route.

I think HLW looks great on an outdoor layout. If they were easier to find I would have everything with the HLW name. They have everything I need from the Forney, big John and the Mogul. Same for rolling stock, flats,boxcars, gondolas and caboose. A little detail, paint and weathering and you have nice looking trains. At least I think so. Here are some pics of HLW mini series stuff. HLW mack with HLW ore cars

(http://i49.tinypic.com/2zqxzrk.jpg)

All HLW except the porter. Log car, caboose and 3 kitbashed flats.

(http://i44.tinypic.com/2cqb7dc.jpg)

HLW log cars and caboose

(http://i38.tinypic.com/15wnf5.jpg)

While going through photos I came across this. HLW Big John new

(http://i35.tinypic.com/v4pf7l.jpg)

Same engine detailed and painted pulling a HLW box and a scratch built workcaboose using a HLW flat.

(http://i49.tinypic.com/2eztwkp.jpg)

#35
Hans-Joerg Mueller said:
Should I tell you about the Citroen 2CV that would do 95kmh going downhill with a tailwind and about <30kmh uphill if you floored it? Great little car to annoy people going downhill since there was no way they could keep up flying around the curves. :lol:
I learned to drive in its "upscale" sister, Ami 6.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citroën_Ami

Crapboxes. Much prefered my GS and DS21/ID20s I actually owned.

#36

Shawn, you are part of the reason I made that comment…

#37

I liked the Citoerns, especially the one that looked like a catfish on the front. Air shocks that would make today’s low-riders grin, those flip-up turn signal flags in the door posts, and that smoking hot 3 cylinder (?) engine. It was kinda kewl!

#38
Hans-Joerg Mueller said:
Hey Rooster,

BTW on that “So?”, gotta check-out what’s happening in the other scales, then it will be “Aha!” instead of “So?”.


Just tried to get a rise but you didn’t bite H.J.
It’s all good!
:slight_smile:

Geoff George said:
don't make fun of Volvo. Some of them will do major A** kicking and send you home with your butt in a sack. Trust me they may look like a box and slow but man can some of them move.
Especially when you mod that brick to pump out over 300 horses. I wouldn't know nothing about that though. ;) Should never have sold my blown 355 outta my Z-28(579hp) fun motor, still have the car though.
#39

Great pics and layout Shawn , and yes I also have lots of Hartland products , and in fact today it was a all Hartland day on the layout .

You could run your HLW Mack till the wheels fall off , and then just pop the drive block out , pop in a new one [ $48.00 or less ]
into YOUR painted detailed lettered top , and run up some more miles on the new power block .

#40

My very first car was a Citroen Light 15.

Then I graduated to a Citroen Big 6 made in the UK. They were both hand me downs form my dad as he progressed through the models available.
I had the Big 6 for only a few years until youthful exuberance dictated I get rid of the old clunkers for a Mini Cooper. Big time mistake.