Thunderbird Club

[SubHuman]

NKP 765, 2-8-4 Berkshire (name of the wheel arrangement), note the little letters o the boiler dome NYC&StL, New York Chicago and St. Louis.

Thanks for the info!

I love the old steam trains that were modernized before diesel like the Mallard. These were the jetliners of their time. You seem experienced in trains and planes from previous posts. I still stop at train museums and study old trains but not as detailed as you!

 

[GonePlaid]

NKP 765, 2-8-4 Berkshire (name of the wheel arrangement), note the little letters o the boiler dome NYC&StL, New York Chicago and St. Louis.

To some of us, a beautiful piece of highly functional machinery. Never saw 765, but saw 1218 and rode behind 4449. Also 425 and 2102 in PA.(and others)

 

[Rickplaysbass]

He’s trying to make his ‘70’s Jazz bass have ‘60’s Jazz bass spacing.

…oh, wait, wrong club.

Same fart, different smell

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Laura Lee from Khruangbin rocks an SX.

She rocks the heck out of it!

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Decolas will likely get shared among my DC and 21 NR.

one of the 21 NR’s will end up in my Florida Flamingo.

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You’ve got the look down pat!

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Sounds kinky.

It would be Kenky if you were there!

 

[GonePlaid]

You’ve got the look down pat!

Pat? I thought his name was Willy.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I want the salad tongs!

Don’t we all!

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Teak would be cool..

Gotta be mahogany

 

[Miles_ONeal]

It's funny how names get chosen to designate problem people. When I first started getting involved with racing bicycles in the '80s, a guy on a bike to avoid was a "Fred", usually someone who wasn't a good cyclist and could cause a crash riding in a group training or racing. Why Fred? Who knows?

Fred has forever been my default name for strangers, characters, anyone I needed a guy name for. Women might be Mary or Jane, but never Maryjane.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Floyd….

My dad was a Floyd, but not that sort.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Funny thing about that: We've often asked to speak to the manager. Last time was at a restaurant we ate at. We told said manager that the service was excellent and that they should do everything possible to hold on to the server.

We do this!

 

[Stealth57]

sorry if I missed something but what’s the purpose of the mod?

To answer the question, "can you make a poor man's '64 Gibson out of a VP, woodwork, and SD Custom Shops?"

My goal is to bring my stock VP and this one to the GTG so folks can compare the sound. Also, interesting to compare to V's II. Different strings I'm sure but mine will be wearing the same SIT Power Flats.

 

[TBird1958]

Thanks for the info!
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I love the old steam trains that were modernized before diesel like the Mallard. These were the jetliners of their time. You seem experienced in trains and planes from previous posts. I still stop at train museums and study old trains but not as detailed as you!

I've loved trains since I was quite young, my father took me to see the Great Northern as it ran through our little town in northeastern Washington state. I still enjoy them today, ride one to work 3 times weekly and they never fail to fascinate me, old or new, big or small. I am a very avid model maker of them as well. The ones I like the best and build models of are from central Utah in the mid '70s - all this stuff is long gone, I was fortunate to visit along with a friend that was a very accomplished photographer, some of his pics and my models.......

Yours truly in 1981, it's 105 degrees in the middle of central Utah, we're waiting for a train, I am a Dork.

These two freight cars are almost entirely built from structural styrene shapes, with some small commercial parts added, not all my models are so involved - there are many, somewhere around 500 I guess.

 

[Rickplaysbass]

Don’t we all!

Something about getting together and tossing salad.....

 

[Stealth57]

Something about getting together and tossing salad.....

Just no tossed cookies, please.

 

[SubHuman]

I've loved trains since I was quite young, my father took me to see the Great Northern as it ran through our little town in northeastern Washington state. I still enjoy them today, ride one to work 3 times weekly and they never fail to fascinate me, old or new, big or small. I am a very avid model maker of them as well. The ones I like the best and build models of are from central Utah in the mid '70s - all this stuff is long gone, I was fortunate to visit along with a friend that was a very accomplished photographer, some of his pics and my models.......

Yours truly in 1981, it's 105 degrees in the middle of central Utah, we're waiting for a train, I am a Dork.

These two freight cars are almost entirely built from structural styrene shapes, with some small commercial parts added, not all my models are so involved - there are many, somewhere around 500 I guess.

Awesome stuff! Nice photos. One thing we all share is our unique little part of this vast world! I picked up a train vibe from your earlier posts! T-Bird lovers aren’t just one dimensional beings. Each one of us shares our love of our Birds but we also enjoy others interests outside of our instruments.

 

[JIO]

Pat? I thought his name was Willy.

Surely you don't mean that...

 

[JIO]

Fred has forever been my default name for strangers, characters, anyone I needed a guy name for. Women might be Mary or Jane, but never Maryjane.

The more '50s "Clyde" comes to mind; "Hey Clyde - what in the world do you think you're doing here?"

 

[JJR58]

I'd like to speak to the manager.