Oh boy, I'm going to be in trouble now......

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flightops

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My missus told me the other day no more train stuff for a while. I (or ourse) agreed. And I genuinely meant it, not one of those cross your fingers and agree things.

Then an email notice showed up today. A seller was offering an Athern Fairbanks Morse H24-66 for 20 bucks. I had a search setup on ebay and hadn't yet deleted it (as per wife request to not buy more train stuff for a month or two).

Then I made the mistake of viewing the offer:

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Used for sure, but original packing at least gives some hope it's been fairly well taken care of. Check out the seller and it seems to be one of those estate sale people. You know, they buy a lot and sell it off as "smalls". This is the only train thing.

After shipping and taxes (ebay charges tax for Canadian sellers and buyers in Canada, it's a gov't law type thing).

Should be here within the week.

Wife is at work today but I'll have to come clean and ask for "penance" when she gets home, but I just couldn't pass up the price.

Dominion Central was a rail line in central Canada around mid 50's IIRC. We had an Atlantic Central Rail line here, but they never used this particular Diesel Loco, they used Alco S-3's and replaced them with SW1200RSes. But the era of the Athern model is at least right.

DAR, even though the SW tracks were pulled up in about 86 and the line was totally defunct province wide around 2010, it did play a significant role in WWI and WWII, shuttling Soldiers from our major training camp to Halifax, where they would cross the Atlantic. Before WWi it was a "luxury passenger" line, ferrying people between steamship ports and similar after WWII. Local industry had problem and ridership trailed off and the rail eventually failed/became unprofitable. Same old story most places where rail lines eventually get pulled up I'd guess....

I'm thinking I'll do a "fantasy" Dominion Atlantic Rail train with it and some era correct Pullman cars (which DAR did use). DAR was also a subsidiary of CP Rail, which did use some H24-66 diesel Locos. I do already have a CN Pullman passenger caboose car....

So if you squint real hard and look a little sideways out the corner of your eye, all the while with your hand up and through your fingers, an H24-66 on the DAR could have been a possibility/fantasy.....;)

 
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Hold on a second, I think that's a GP38-2 shell, not the H24-66 they called it in the auction. Maybe it's on an Athern H24-66 chassis as it is a 6 wheel boogie.

I didn't pay close enough attention to the pictures I guess.

Oh well, doesn't really matter to me either way!

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Always be leary of buyers who don't know what it is their posting to set. But you're a big boy so you know that 😉. Good luck with the wife.
yeah, I saw 20 bucks and figured not much to loose. Bit of a "knee jerk reaction" buy.

Looking closer the loco sure looks like the SD40, the included parts list says gp38-2 and the description is H24-66. Seems it is a collection of someones leftover bits.

As long as it runs at all, I'll be ok with the price I paid for it. I'll have to see what's under that shell when it gets here. Hopefully it's no "gutted". But it is what it is now. If nothing else, it can be practice piece for painting, weathering, etc.

CN had lots of SD40's in their livery, so I may just go that way with it...assuming it runs that is....:rolleyes:

Seems I always have to get "burnt" once or twice when starting a new hobby before I learn the basics to look for when buying used stuff. At least I knew enough to make sure it's at least HO scale.....lol!
 
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….And so it begins…
Actually, I think it's having quite the opposite effect.

I promised my missus it would be at least several more months before I bought anything else and breaking my word to her in a little more than 48 hrs later has left quite a bad taste in my mouth. And I still have yet to "fess up" to her (she's at work).

I actually feel more like I want to step away from it all for a while now....
 
You only bought a loco, I bought a car. And I don't even have a job at the moment.... oops.
It's no t what I bought or how much it was, it's breaking my agreement that feels "bad".

She'll be fine with it overall, but I'll still feel like I've...I dunno..... let myself down as much as anything else I guess.
 


It's no t what I bought or how much it was, it's breaking my agreement that feels "bad".

She'll be fine with it overall, but I'll still feel like I've...I dunno..... let myself down as much as anything else I guess.
You think she's going to be disappointed in you for not keeping your word, and you're disappointed in yourself for disappointing her.
 
If that's all she has to be disappointed with you about you're doing better than most of us. Besides she gets the satisfaction of seeing you feel guilty.
 
Well, she let me off the hook easily. She understands my...."personality".....and knows I was torturing myself more than she ever could. She also appreciates up front honesty.

Good woman. Good person. Best decision I ever made was asking her to marry me.

:)
 




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