Recent acquisitions & restoration projects.....

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Re: Recent acquisitions & restoration projects.....

Postby E7 » Tue Aug 06, 2019 1:38 am

2railjon wrote:Thanks to Rufus my passengers are seated! :mrgreen:


You mean he bought all those little buggers tickets! Wow! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: Recent acquisitions & restoration projects.....

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Tue Aug 06, 2019 8:53 am

E7 wrote:
2railjon wrote:Thanks to Rufus my passengers are seated! :mrgreen:


You mean he bought all those little buggers tickets! Wow! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


More fundamental than that - I provided the actual seats so that all those passengers that were standing might be seated and in doing so was able to increase the cost of the tickets. It's all about profit. Check with the Nagus.
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Re: Recent acquisitions & restoration projects.....

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Tue Aug 06, 2019 9:10 am

Started with:

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Calling it done now....

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Re: Recent acquisitions & restoration projects.....

Postby sleepmac » Tue Aug 06, 2019 10:25 am

Rufus, very nice! See you in a few days.

Dan Weinhold
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Re: Recent acquisitions & restoration projects.....

Postby bob turner » Tue Aug 06, 2019 11:53 am

Yes. Charm! Lobaugh trucks add to the charm.
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Re: Recent acquisitions & restoration projects.....

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Tue Aug 06, 2019 12:24 pm

sleepmac wrote:Rufus, very nice! See you in a few days.

Dan Weinhold


Thanks! Yes, see you there and you can see this caboose there as well.

Yes. Charm! Lobaugh trucks add to the charm.


Yes, good weight down nice and low where it's needed.
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Re: Recent acquisitions & restoration projects.....

Postby 2railjon » Tue Aug 06, 2019 4:29 pm

Beautiful!
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Re: Recent acquisitions & restoration projects.....

Postby J. S. Bach » Tue Aug 06, 2019 10:12 pm

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
Yes. Charm! Lobaugh trucks add to the charm.

Yes, good weight down nice and low where it's needed.

The only change that I am going to make on the one that I just got from you; and for the same reason.
BTW, the one above looks quite nice.
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Re: Recent acquisitions & restoration projects.....

Postby webenda » Sun Aug 25, 2019 1:40 am

Slits in the roofing are an interesting feature.

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Re: Recent acquisitions & restoration projects.....

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Sun Aug 25, 2019 10:31 am

webenda wrote:Slits in the roofing are an interesting feature.


Those are the raised seams of the roofing.
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Re: Recent acquisitions & restoration projects.....

Postby webenda » Sun Aug 25, 2019 1:08 pm

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
webenda wrote:Slits in the roofing are an interesting feature.


Those are the raised seams of the roofing.

Very nice!
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Re: Recent acquisitions & restoration projects.....

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Sun Aug 25, 2019 2:01 pm

webenda wrote:
Rufus T. Firefly wrote:
webenda wrote:Slits in the roofing are an interesting feature.


Those are the raised seams of the roofing.

Very nice!


The roofing is actually made up from multiple overlapping layers.
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Re: Recent acquisitions & restoration projects.....

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Sun Sep 08, 2019 8:58 am

Started with:

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Ended with:

Done for now or as far as I'll go with this one....

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And, that's enough cabooses for quite a while, :!:
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Re: Recent acquisitions & restoration projects.....

Postby rogruth » Sun Sep 08, 2019 10:12 am

That's nice. What's next?
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Re: Recent acquisitions & restoration projects.....

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Sun Sep 08, 2019 10:19 am

rogruth wrote:That's nice. What's next?


Might look at some of the kits on the shelf; some are not complete, so much of the same exercise to complete them....
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