Good morning. 36 degrees and partly cloudy. Should get up into the mid 60's but it is forecast to go downhill from there with a winter storm warning starting Tuesday night and low temps in the single digits on Wednesday night.
Mike, Johnny, get out your long Johns.
Should head back to Las Vegas where it's warm. I am more than happy with the results of the auction. Tried to get some photos of my cars when they came off the truck but they ran me off and was getting ready to be moved to the main viewing area. Did manage to get one of the '60 Impala before I was ousted. This was restored to original condition. No resto-mod like the '59. Never drove it much because I couldn't stand the Power Glide transmission.
The auction was a no reserve auction so I didn't have to worry about having to bring anything home but there was always the chance of having extremely low bids. I didn't have a lot of bucks in what went to the auction, but a lot of time. Didn't pay a lot for what I had so the work that went into the cars was well worth it.
Curt - This is part of our retirement.
The auction was a bit intimidating as I am not used to being in crowds but I did enjoy it. Saw many high dollar what I would call late model (2005 and newer) Mercedes go for 10 to 15 K. My wife kept me under control and although I did bid on a few cars, I stuck to my limit and got out bid. (thankfully).
A lot of posts to catch up with.
Willie - Can't believe all of the detail on those Santa Fe dash 9's. Incredible. Nice weathering on the grain hoppers also.
Ray - Nice photo of the dome car. I just loved to ride in them on out trips east. Probably my favorite car next to the dining car.
Sherrel,
Willie- When we hit the road, we don't lolly-gag. With the higher peed limits in the western states, you can cover a lot of ground without traffic like there is in the eastern states.
Louis - Good photos as usual. Nice to see what was posted on a full size screen. The phone doesn't do them justice.
Z - Good photos of the museum.
Lee - Enjoyed your box car and reefer photos. I have a few old Silver Streak wood lit box cars running on my layout. Back in the day, they has so much more detail than most plastic ones. Here are a couple of the ones I did for my Logan Valley. They started off as undecorated kits. Can't really use the 36 footer on the layout because of the arch bar trucks as they can't be used in interchange service. Was going to send it to
Dave Banta but he never sent me his address. Like the town photos also. Think that PennsyF unit could be a Tyco.
Terry - Nice photo of the GE unit.
Garry - I really like your city scenes. Great photos.
Going to go back and check the posts. Tried to keep up with them on the phone, but I was most likely distracted over the weekend.
Later