 | | 0-4-0 Porter and Shorty Caboose
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| Hi all, I finally got around to uploading pics of my latest steamer, an 0-4-0T Porter. I also uploaded pics of the caboose I built to match. The prototypes for both were narrow-gauge, so I tried to capture that feeling on standard gauge track by (...) (24 years ago, 30-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.announce.moc)
| | |  | | Re: MichLUG at Train-O-Rama in Dearborn 10-27-02
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| Looks great! I wish I could have been there. Well, except I am glad I am here. :) Hmmm. So, I wish I could have done both. -Alfred (...) <snip> apparently LUGNET requires trimming?? weird. must be new. (...) (24 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.us.michlug)
| | |  | | MichLUG at Train-O-Rama in Dearborn 10-27-02
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| My photos of MichLUG's train show yesterday are now public on Brickshelf. Highlights of the show included: My St. Mary's of Redford: (URL) Haunted House and Graveyard: (URL) Art Deco auto dealership: (URL) wienermobile: (URL) Leach's fire station: (...) (24 years ago, 28-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce) !!
| | |  | | Romanesque Church
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| Some of you may have seen pictures from MichLUG's July 2002 GATS appearance of my church model. The original, St. Mary's of Redford Catholic Church in Detroit MI, was designed in the 1920s by the architect Ralph Adams Cram in a French Romanesque (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.town, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.arch) !!
| | |  | | This is odd...
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| My 0-4-0T Porter can easily pull about 3 times the load that my 4-8-4 Greenbrier can. WHY!?!?! Does anyone have a suggestion about why the little one pulls so well? The 4-8-4 has about the weight of the Porter at the rear over the motor, and runs (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.us.michlug)
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