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I hope you enjoy my random thoughts and blog subjects...
thanks - Mike


ferroequinologist (n)


Latin ferrum iron + Latin equus horse + -logist
A railroad or model railroad enthusiast. (From Dow's Dictionary of Railway Quotations.) "Ferroequino" derives from the Latin for "iron horse," an early term for a locomotive.


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Friday, July 29, 2011

Image of the Month

This really bizarre locomotive is a Chesapeake & Ohio M-1 steam turbine. Proof that reality is stranger than fiction some times.

 

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Lionel Collectors Club of America National Convention

I was asked to give a clinic at the LCCA convention this week, it was really nice meeting the folks from all over the country and from other facet of the hobby. There were some really beautiful trains there as well as Lionel's traveling layout and set up.




The Lionel layouts were quite impressive.

In addition, I was invited to run some pre-war standard (reproduction) gauge trains, I had a blast, I can see the appeal of these trains were back in the early part of the last century.




I have been really busy of late with the clinics, working on my locomotive AP as well. Super detailing a couple of SD-45's has proven to be quite a challenge. I will post pictures once they are complete... until then....