POLL: the final step before ninth_wave reveals all!

Hi Choo! How ya be? Nice post, except for the headache that one sentence gave me
I'll be even more scarce the next few days..going to Ebay Live, practically right in my own backyard
Hopefully I can get permission from certain folks to post a picture or 2. Should be fun. At least it'll keep me out of trouble

I'll send ya some more memory pills, I've got plenty. Just ignore the little skull & crossbone, doesn't mean anything

Hey all been MIA for awhile! Just popping in to say HI! I see Miss M broke out evil nurse Wanda again. I have been haphazardly following the thread. I guess it has been almost a month since I last posted The benefit show went well and Magoos is super busy right now. I have been putting extra time in helping out there as there are alot of bike runs that come through in the summer. Glad to see the thread is still chugging along. And to think we wondered if we could keep it alive until January!If this keeps up we will have to look into syndication rights!Watch out Seinfeld Getting ready to go for some pre-testing for a surgery I have scheduled for next week
Wish I could be at eBay live Miss M, I really thought hard about it when I found out Chris Isaak would be playing.But the whole surgery thing put the kabosh on that one. Have fun and hopefully you get to post those pics. But please leave the two tranvestite enforcers at home, after all this is GreedBays event and we would not want those two ruining it! HMMM? On second thought
BTW FeeBay has not gotten a penny from me since December and I still have my Bronze PS rating?

HI TAZ!!!
Happy, happy to see ya! Glad the benefit went well (we knew it would ) but sorry to hear you're having surgery I really wish you could have gone to Ebay Live..one of the other regular posters here is going too (don't know if it's 'proper' to mention names so I won't) but at least I'll 'know' somebody.
Gotta go to work now..don't know how I'll get up in the morning might have to stay up all night. REALLY poor planning on my part!

PS Taz, I DID notice you're still a Powerseller..LOL..ebay is too busy dealing with FB complaints etc to monitor anything else I guess

Later

This thread is STILL going? 146 pages?

Of course it is, next target is 200 pages by next Christmas, all contributions will continue to be vetted to ensure sub-standard quality and only accepted if they achieve 2 stars or less out of 5.

We have standards maintain and a high number of viewers to amaze, dispair, and occasionally perhaps amuse

Hi everybody,
Just a quick HI....Ebay Live was a blast, going tmorrow too & I'll be able to post some pics.

And NO Choo, when my pic was taken I did not break the camera

Ah, so they are making note of all the troublemakers (all sellers) on the way in then, serves you right.

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when my pic was taken I did not break the camera

Obviously used a new army surveillance camera with blast proof lens, certainly a good way of testing it

As reqards pics, yes want to see some of you giving them some stick !!

I saw a camera that was being toted around eBay Live by 2 suspicious looking ???Females??? transvestites? enforcers?
Cigar chomping women toting camera equipment are likely to arouse suspicions! Walking a fine line here Miss M!

Hi Taz, good to see you back on here even if its only for the occasional brief visit.

Ms M aka the FangMother certainly has some gender dubious associates, still they are at the right place, they'll probably get mistaken for greedBay executives.

Then we shall see some policy changes

Hi Everybody,
WoW Ebay Live was alot of fun!!! (I can see people rolling their eyes, but I only went because of the Auctiva booth) We had a blast! Kbalona came in all the way from NY, and tho we didn't have much time to hang out, it was GREAT working the Auctiva booth, handing out tee shirts, etc. If Ebay was run by people like the Auctiva folks, everybody would be happy! Just a GREAT bunch of people. I can't even say how much I enjoyed myself

Their booth seemed to be the hit of the conference...standing room only for the live tutorials, hundreds (or probably thousands) of tees handed out, it was awesome! I'm sure I'll think of more later, but for now just wanted to post some pics...wasn't able to get too many, it was VERY busy

This is Auctiva Chrystal (who designed one of my favorite templates 'High on the Hog'), kbalona, and yours truly. Keep in mind: white makes me look fat, I was having a bad hair day, and I left my fangs at home

Here's our good friends Auctiva Mike and Auctiva Kevin, who are always so helpful

And last but not least the famous (or infamous??) CEO Jeff...he's a tall one

Here's a view of part of the floor from up above

I guess that's enough pics for now..I don't have that many anyway. HUGE thanks to Auctiva for inviting us, it was a memorable experience

Kbalona should be on his way home by now, hopefully he'll post also

Ok, who was it really in the picture you took, the one on the right couldn't be you judging by all the other pictures you have posted on this thread.

Would take too much work to look as good as that

HAHAHA!

Well I arrived home last night. She's right, although we didn't have a lot of time to just hang out, we had a blast. And it was really great to meet all the cool people from Auctiva. Now we know it's not just a bunch of robots! LOL.

Or, perhaps they are very advanced ones

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Would take too much work to look as good as that

I am speechless

Can it be possible??

Choo actually gave me a compliment??????

EDIT--Choo obviously you forgot to take your memory pills, you forgot who you're talking too

Hi K..You're up early, I would have thought you'd sleep half the day

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Originally posted by member_8880:

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Would take too much work to look as good as that

I am speechless

Can it be possible??

Choo actually gave me a compliment??????

EDIT--Choo obviously you forgot to take your memory pills, you forgot who you're talking too

Hi K..You're up early, I would have thought you'd sleep half the day

Heh...well, I'm off for a nap here in a few minutes.
I forgot to mention, it was really really nice to meet Sus also.

Errm, what memory pills, nevermind those you sent me (with the little skull and crossbones label) cleared my blocked drain really well, mind you the explosion did frighten the neighbours cat

DOH!! You weren't supposed to put them in the drain, silly....But since you didn't swallow them, you forgot that

Explosion?? Would I really do that to you?? (I say this with my halo glowing)

K - If you have any pics you can post pls do (and send them to me too)

EDIT---If anyone wants to see the Ebay Live pics, they're on the previous page, 146.

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I say this with my halo glowing

But . . . glowing red

Yeah, like this......

C'mon, you know I'm really a good guy...I'm wearing white, doesn't that prove it?

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I'm really a good guy

Oh dear, now your secret is out, it's not just your lieutenants that are transvestites

edit :-

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C'mon, you know

No, I don't, what are you inferring

"Profanity is the language of the ignorant"
Unfortunately I am a touch ignorant
And endeavour to not let it happen in print even though I find it difficult verbally <<<<<<<


Found this on your other post...I bet I can Out-swear you But on the other hand, you have alot of words that aren't even in my language

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I bet I can Out-swear you

Now why doesn't that surprise me . . . coo, I can see your halo starting to wobble and turn red again

I've got nothing to say

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I've got nothing to say

Hasn't stopped you writing here before

Hi guys! Oh wow, I have been busy, but have been reading your posts as they come to my gmail. Just no time to get over here and post.
All these dang changes I'm about to go nuts!!!! I want one product with one description.....one price one shiping method before I go nuts!

I'm trying to keep up!

Great! YAY! I took time to look at your pics that is great! I have a pic of you now in my mind.....
I was gonna rush off, but glad I didn't. When I got the notifier email and you said something about posting pics, I thought they were the old gals again! I should've come to look!
Glad you had fun...all of yous!

What....
You don't like the old gals???
I think Choo is secretly in love with one of them

Just kiddin ya Choo
N, you are the busiest person I know

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I think Choo is secretly in love with one of them

So secret that even I didn't know it, yeeuck, just as well I know it's a figment of your warped imagination, but even so

You could here a pin drop around here if I could include a sound file

OOps...I meant to drop a pin but I dropped a grenade instead. Loud enough for ya??


BUSY busy, Choo, still trying to get rid of my inventory (boy I had alot of stuff!). Sales are already beginning to slow down...What's new with you?? Are you behaving yourself? (OH yeah right)

Bet your neighbours enjoyed the fireworks not that any will still be around to comment

Not much new here, trickle selling on Specialist Auctions site but probably more cost effective than GreedBay had become and being out of season too.

Behaving myself, hmmmm, have to ask around for comments, still at least I know when to drop a pin or what it came from

Greedbay is certainly driving sellers and buyers away, SpecialistAuctions is certainly picking up sellers and buyers fed up with Greedbay.

Two more sales today, most have now been new buyers registering the same day, so to greedbay.

That's excellent Choo
I wish I would have done well on the 2 other sites I tried but I barely even got any views

I can't believe how bad we're getting at posting here...Our goal should be to see if we can keep this thread alive till next Dec, make it a whole year. Kind of hard tho with just the 2 of us and the occasional Taz & N.

Choo, what did you do with the enforcers, I haven't seen them for awhile??

9 out of 10 big cats prefer 'enforcer' chunks in their own gravy, got any more, demand has outstripped supply

This thread will live on, it rests during the summer and blooms in the winter

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I tried but I barely even got any views

Unfortunately it really depends on your wares and customer age group, greedbay is universally known. Most of my light weight items are old timeless content, informative magazines full of information of interest to modellers.

I also believe this group of buyers are very club orientated so the next critical point is when word of mouth recommendation really takes off.

Listings need to be laid out in a way that can be searched easily and very many live at a time waiting for that individual who thinks that's just what I have been looking for.

This means a large quantity need to be available for buyers to peruse (auctions too expensive on greedbay and store format useless for some while now), bit like a library it reaches a critical mass when researchers/readers tell their friends its worth going there.

It is not only about price but accuracy of the descriptions and the service you provide with it, like speed of delivery, packing, and dealing with detailed enquiries which I expect you are well aware of. Overall I prefer to be seller than a buyer where my expectations over the years have dwindled to I might get what I believe to have paid for sometime and maybe even packed suitably.

So I aim to provide a superior service so that buyers can rely on getting what they want quickly so they can get on with what they enjoy most from their hobby, also that it is always worth buying from me even if I am not the cheapest.

You obviously have not found the right alternative site yet, it also seems to me that my sales are picking up albeit slowly faster now that I have stopped listing on greedbay.

It is useful when the alternative site allows at least a link to your greedbay feeback page as the SA site does because it does give some more comfort to a buyer and accepting PayPal for everything is also a necessity because it does make the buying more secure, I will always opt to buy via PayPal.

Ok, the time taken to process sales of low value items with a personal touch is time consuming but the brand loyalty effect is just as important to you and I as it is to a major corporation.

When you make a move for the next season make sure you mailshot you old customers (especially the repeat buyers), I certainly added signatures to my electronic dispatch notes telling buyers where I was going.

Sales may not improve much this year with a slowing global economy and greedbay going into a tizzy so I look more now to the direction I should be heading next year based on unusually for me 'optimism'. Many sellers will go to the wall but that when the economic state of the world picks up again I'll get in again quick, bit of dog eat dog, but before competition rises again get solidly established.

So global economic slowdown and greedbay are culling sellers, the strongest and the most determined will survive, easy days are over for now.

End of soapbox ramblings for now

Wow...how long did it take you to type that?

Still, for me, Ebay is still the only place where a used motorcycle shirt can sell for $97. (I actually got paid for it too)

Now back to our reqularly scheduled

Good rate for a shirt, did it have to smell of oil and sweat for authenticity

Time, a few minutes to type and same again to translate it into English

Ok, apa-loggys for such an off topic post

No apa-loggys necessary (whatever they are)

No, no oil/sweat smells...hopefully not even a smoke smell She left good FB so apparently everything was OK.

The lieutenants are MIA, shame on you Choo...I'm starting to believe foul play. You wouldn't have had anything to do with that would you???

As I said in the last page, 9 out of 10 big cats prefer . . . purrrrrr

Sounds like a fair weather biker bought the shirt if they wanted it without an authentic aroma, whereas a steam buff likes the aroma of oil and steam . . . aaaaah, bliss !

Well.....I guess I'll have to start looking for new lieutenants won't I?

Yep, I have hungry cats to feed here

Oh no ya don't...I'll never send them to England again

Apparently meeting you is a fate worse than death

Oh dear, I'd better come over there then

Oooo goodie...you can meet my MOM

She's worse than any enforcer....

And just think, girls grow up to look like their mum, just look at what you have to look forward to seeing in the mirror one cold Chicago morn', he he he

Hmmmmm....well I have yet to see an actual picture of YOU
Would it curl my hair? Would I go blind? (probably)

Well judging by your mum's picture your body will probably do all that in self defence

My picture, well I would not want to embaress you or upset the delicate and sensitive viewers of this thread, after all we do have standards to maintain even if they are not very high

That bad huh??

Go ahead and post it, our standards here are lower than dirt

Your standards may be that low (certainly judging by the choice of your first cat fodder lieutenants) but over this side of the pond we have appearances to maintain . . . pause for raucous laughter and rolling about the floor to subside.

Where was I, oh yes appearances . . . another pause . . ok, "titter, ye not", I would rather you speculate so I can have a laugh rather than the other way around

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Ring, ring, ring, ...

er, what day is it, drat dropped the phone down the toilet, grunt, zzzzzzzzzzzzz


That was another exciting episode in the life of a greedbay customer service automaton, in the next episode they get their head stuck down the pan trying to make a call

I have an extra grenade if ya need it to unclog the toilet...

YES my standards are QUITE low (I'm talking to YOU aren't I? hehehe) Oh I'm gonna get it for that

I have a new lieutenant picked out, just for you...you'll understand why when you see her pic

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have an extra grenade if ya need it to unclog the toilet...

Ere !! . . . are you calling me a greedbay automaton

On the other hand if it's for the greedbay automaton, let it stay down there out of harms way.

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YES my standards are QUITE low (I'm talking to YOU aren't I? hehehe) Oh I'm gonna get it for that

, Yep.

Why do you think I prefer to be anonymous, so no one knows I talk with the likes of you

Knowing your tastes in colleagues I expect your new lieutenant is across between the hulk and a clogged sewer anyway

Not quite....

She looks like a sweet old lady doesn't she?

BUT...can you guess who she really is???
Do the letters BB ring any bells???

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Do the letters BB ring any bells???

Only a cracked bell, related to US president ?

How soon we forget

She's a Bin Bandit..I've got the whole gang of them here

(innocently) ...Now what was your ebay user ID???

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She's a Bin Bandit..I've got the whole gang of them here

H'mmm, I think a tip-off to the right authorities and greedbay will be the least of your problems

And finally an appropriate picture of myself and my missus which describes us rather well :-



I'm kinda cute with the orange highlights, eh, now you know why I'm not afraid of your genetically mutated lieutenants

Yikes!

What have you done to yourself?

Ok I'll admit you are kinda cute (I said KINDA) but now you'll have to change your 'name' to robot guy or something...

BTW, the missus is way too good for you

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What have you done to yourself?

Nothing, well except spruce myself up a bit with a touch of paint about 150 years ago, anyway don't need to change my name, everyone should have a hobby.

You see I am designed well for collecting up items to sell in a flea market like greedbay

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BTW, the missus is way too good for you

Too right, lucky me, don't know how she puts up with me so well especially when I get started on greedbay

At least it's better than Pete's teletubby, remember that?? Wonder where he's been anyway

You're up awfully early aren't you?
(oh yeah, I forgot...you old folks go to bed about 7 pm & sleep for 3-4 hours)

Yeah yeah I know, look who's talking

Well with such a damp, cloudy and dreary June onwards getting up at 6am in the morning is the best time to catch some sunlight before it rises above the cloud line.

I'd rather be up early in daylight than the darkness of late evening any day.

Just gone 7:35am here now, well Pete reckoned on being busy, anyway ol'gal isn't it about time you zimmered off to bed, heaven help your victims if you start jabbing them in the wrong places 'cause you are half asleep

Are you trying to get rid of me?

I already know the answer to that one
It's 1:45 am here and yes, it's almost time for some shuteye.

"""I'd rather be up early in daylight than the darkness of late evening any day"""

I'm just the opposite...LOVE the night, hate the mornings

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I'm just the opposite...LOVE the night, hate the mornings

Ah, yes you must have inherited that from your father, the Count, I forgot you are not called the FangMother without reason

Me try and get rid of you ? With who else could I have such an elequent and articulate discussion on world affairs as those I have with you

You're the only one that calls me FangMother
Yeah you'd miss me if I were gone wouldn't you...then you'd have no one to pick on
I'm going to bed, got work this weekend.
Try to behave yourself

Let me see the quick answers are no, maybe, zzzz, hee hee, why?

Good night and pleasant fang dreams

Wow, no posts for days. And I suppose you're going to blame me Just stopping in to say HI, going swimming now. This is one of the worst summers we've ever had, cloudy & cool.
Of course when I'm at work the weather is perfect

Are you behaving yourself Choo??

Of course I am, bad enough talking to myself without being here and typing to myself as well.

Oh well I'm just stopping by to say 'lo just like the weather all lows our second hot day in a month frequently cloudy and the perishing clouds leak as well.

So you are going swimming to be warm and dry then

Me missuses makes sure I behave myself in public, but not in private

You must really think I'm ignoring you

I've been doing some more listings and I actually got to swim 3 days in a row! Now it probably won't be nice out again for a month

Which is OK I guess, I start my new second job tomorrow (what in the world was I thinking)

You must really think I'm ignoring you

I haven't been doing some more listings, haven't been for a swim for 3 decades in a row and the weather has finally turned hot.

And I am not starting a new job any time soon, we have quite a lot in common it seems

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we have quite a lot in common it seems

You forgot one...you have cats & I have dogs. (Only my dogs don't eat people)

Really? No swimming in 3 decades????? I don't even know what to say to that

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I don't even know what to say to that

Corr, well what if I said that 3 was to match your 3 days and in fact it is more like over 4 decades since I scared the life out of myself at a school swimming lesson before I reached my teens ?

Haven't been able to step foot in a swimming pool or go near a steep waters edge since !

Last time I went to a local pool with my wife to pickup up our lad (some 6 years ago) I could not even enter the hall where the pool was, I just froze at the doors.

Would love to have been able to swim but I was nervous enough before going for swimming lessons but one short panic underwater due to a collision with another kid terrified me. Despite that I weent back the next week determined to not let it put me off but I could not get in any further than knee deep, that's life, obviously wasn't for me

My cats don't eat people, only your lieutenants, the creatures that Darwin's evolutionary process of natural selection seem to have overlooked.

My cats correct and realign the process

OMG Choo, that's terrible...talk about a phobia! Shame, you don't know what you're missing

Anyway, I think next time I'll send my dogs to take care of your cats, so I can send my BIN bandits. (That doesn't make sense even to me)

Well my big cats will charm your dogs and devour your BIN bandits, they are partial to oriental cuisine and what they don't like they bury, they're tidy pussy cats

Well another day of showers, the garden is a slime bath where I have been trying to landscape it, or rather rearrange the clay into something grass can grow on and a mower can trim withoutout scalping the lumps.

Must be the dampest and grottiest summer for a long time after a few above average days in spring and early summer.

Can't even come up with some decent lunacy here, come on folks pop in and drop a bombshell or two to liven this thread up a bit more

Choo let's face it...we're the only ones left here

PS..I'm gonna send over a bulldozer, that might help you out

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I'm gonna send over a bulldozer, that might help you out

No hurry, finish your housework with it first, don't want to inconvenience you

Edit - my tipping get vorse !!

My house actually NEEDS a bulldozer

I've been working so much at both places I have no extra time at all....Good thing I LOVE my job(s)

Hmmm, if you had a 3rd job so you did not need to go home then you could save on fuel, housework and all those tedious things like cooking, watching TV, sleeping . . .

SLEEPING????

What the heck is that??? (As I sit here with my red bleary eyes)

It's 4 in the morning and I'm leaving for work...I have to get up when I'm normally going to bed. Luckily I don't work at this second job too often and pretty soon I'll be on the later shift again.

Let me have that bulldozer back when you're done with it

So, this thread is finally running out of steam. Days between posts, instead of minutes or hours.

Hi Jeff, good of you to drop in and nudge it up the charts again, well what with holidays, and some working multiple shifts and selling in a summer/part recessional lull it was only to be expected.

This ol' thread ain't finished yet, Ms M and I are it's guardians !!

Still the view count continues to creep up despite the lack of lunacy at present, then again online selling isn't that hot at the moment either, just like the weather.

Mind you I am getting good out of season sales on the SpecialistAuctions site so much so that I doubt I wil move my magaazine and books sales back to greedbay, but certainly watching for Auctiva's alternative.

So, running out of steam ? Well the tender is a bit low on coal and water, but the fire still glows, very soon we will get steam pressure up and start pounding the metals again, and anyone else daft as us to get involved in this lounge thread or is it a rope ?

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Let me have that bulldozer back when you're done with it

By the time our lad has cleared up his room it will need a heavy overhaul or shall I just mail you what's left of it

I'm sort of taking August off. I've got some unique items to list, but I'm waiting until September to get started again in quantity. Summer is always slow, so why bother?

Summer has been good for me but it seems to be over now Last week sales really tanked so I'm done for now, at least for a month or so. Then I can start up with fall/winter stuff (if I can ever find any time to take pics)

So Jeff, you're still reading our nonsense huh? Glad you joined us, if even for a little while.

Choo--if his room is THAT bad, keep the bulldozer...you need it more than I do

Hey ChooChoo, going back to my avatar picture, C&O 614, if you want to see a wonderful video of this fabulous engine at 70mph, check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhGoR1cpdrM&feature=related

I just came upon it on YouTube looking up something else In fact, there a re a number of vids, but this is a particularly good on at high speed This is similar to the speed of when I snapped that pic at left Its been over 10 years since these trips, time goes by fast. That's what railroading was once all about!

Another good one, taken a few miles from where I took my still photo. Great pacing footage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrrPGQMwXxM&feature=related

Pretty impressive videos, steam rules, when it comes to putting on a spirited show

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Originally posted by ChooChooGuy:
Pretty impressive videos, steam rules, when it comes to putting on a spirited show

There are just so many outstanding videos of these trips 10 years ago, I can't get over it.

Take a look at this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7PePKv7OGU&feature=related

While it's 7 minutes long, and worth watching every minutes (some great pacing shots), the first 90 seconds says it all!

What a shame this engine is now sidelined, and essentially rusting away. I don't even know who owns it now. I do know it needs major restoration again, and is out of certification. It can no longer be steamed.

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Originally posted by JeffS:

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Originally posted by ChooChooGuy:
Pretty impressive videos, steam rules, when it comes to putting on a spirited show

There are just so many outstanding videos of these trips 10 years ago, I can't get over it.

Take a look at this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7PePKv7OGU&feature=related

While it's 7 minutes long, and worth watching every minute (some great pacing shots), the first 90 seconds says it all!

What a shame this engine is now sidelined, and essentially rusting away. I don't even know who owns it now. I do know it needs major restoration again, and is out of certification. It can no longer be steamed.

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Originally posted by JeffS:

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Originally posted by JeffS:

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Originally posted by ChooChooGuy:
Pretty impressive videos, steam rules, when it comes to putting on a spirited show

There are just so many outstanding videos of these trips 10 years ago, I can't get over it.

Take a look at this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7PePKv7OGU&feature=related

While it's 7 minutes long, and worth watching every minute (some great pacing shots), the first 90 seconds says it all! A cold day and the steam condensing from the stack.

What a shame this engine is now sidelined, and essentially rusting away. I don't even know who owns it now. I do know it needs major restoration again, and is out of certification. It can no longer be steamed.

Awesome vids, Jeff. I think everyone likes trains. The hospital I work at is 103 years old and was built behind a huge trainyard. No steam engines anymore, but plenty of freight and commuter trains still carrying on. The noise is deafening at times but no one ever seems to mind The patients say they actually like the sound of the train whistles at night.

Last time I had a stay in hospital the noises I heard all through the night were clanking, splashing and crashing . . . .


Unfortunately it was from the bed pan washing room across the corridor

Choo...are you sure those werent the sounds of your false teeth, glasses, and hearing aid falling to the floor???

KIDDING

Pardon, just felt something go crack under my foot looking for me teef

Yeah Choo, I caught the action...

(Ahem..) I think you lost your toupee too

No, just hung it out to dry after cleaning out the toilet