More modern stuff
More modern stuff
My nephew's car.
In reply to 914Driver :
Needs moar bumper.
Apparently there is an abandoned Pennsy GG1 or two rusting away in the woods near Cooperstown, NY. I need to go find it.
Man that's cool. Could someone buy it?
GIRTHQUAKE said:Man that's cool. Could someone buy it?
Did some reading, and it seems they aren't actually abandoned, but they aren't exactly being taken care of. The Leatherstocking Railway Museum/Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley Railroad own them and were supposed to be cosmetically restoring them. Amtrak #4919 was scraped and painted in '01 when it was supposed to go to up to Connecticut but that fell through, and then it was sold to The Henry Ford Museum in 2014 and they are supposed to be moving it and restoring it, but haven't done so. And #4917 is future uncertain, but still sitting there. The transformers were filled with polychlorinated biphenyl as coolant, which I gather is some nasty stuff, and requires special disposal, so scrapping them is a hideously expensive proposition.
While its depressing to see, the good news is that GG1s are borderline over-preserved. There are quite a few of them in museums that have been cosmetically restored, so its not like these two are the last of their kind rotting away.
Duke said:Pic unrelated:
Those wheels... Familiar, but I don't know what they are. Anybody know? I've been waffling on the (admittedly distant) plan to put Revolutions on the Wolseley. Banded steels seem more stately, but also maybe too plain. It would be way, way too much to hope that there's something like these or the alloy Dunlops in 10x6...
Looking at foolishness on fleabay, LOVE seeing the stuff in the background.
Wound up behind this old Ferrari today. A bit down the road I wound up next to him and asked why he didn't have the top down, since it was 75.
It wasn't his car, and he didn't want to mess with the top.
In reply to Adrian_Thompson :
Do the Brits have people whining on the internet about how they aren't really stock cars anymore too?
914Driver said:
In reply to Wally :
Do Brits go the other way around the track?
Charger or Marlin?
In reply to 914Driver :
Charger. Marlins have a rounder quarter window. I love Marlins:
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