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Rev. Mark Blesses His Locos By: Phillip  Cohen	Comment Entered: 11/16/2010 4:21:53 PM By: howie   - elsegundo He is asking for alot in one day.   Comment Entered: 11/16/2010 6:49:43 PM  By: Tom  D - Lakewood We need more steaming bays so that Mark has more places to put his cars.   Comment Entered: 11/17/2010 12:51:51 PM  By: Phil  C - Torrance, CA Yeah, he did manage to fill all of them up plus the loading bays. Way to go Mark!
Kelley Playing Tractor By: Phillip  Cohen	Comment Entered: 11/16/2010 4:13:13 PM By: howie   - elsegundo The carls jr drink really adds weight!   Comment Entered: 11/16/2010 4:20:49 PM  By: Phillip  Cohen - Torrance, CA Naw it was the ghetto blaster on top of the rocks that moved it along. That deep bass response just pushed it.
Charlie Over the Edge By: Phillip  Cohen	Comment Entered: 11/16/2010 4:10:24 PM By: howie   - elsegundo Charlies motto: who needs riding cars? and to think some day he will be driveing on the streets!!!   Comment Entered: 11/16/2010 4:21:23 PM  By: Phillip  Cohen - Torrance, CA I just think he liked the vibrations.
Crenshaw Extension Ballasting By: Tom  Downing	Comment Entered: 11/15/2010 3:53:40 PM By: charlie  giordano - torrance i flew ther on the little green thing last week on my run with phil to get some lunch. i went over that part of track where u had put ties under it to level it and had the whole train at like a 45 degree angle. it was awesome!   Comment Entered: 11/15/2010 3:59:46 PM  By: Tom  D. - lakewood Now we all know who is going to be the first one to run a train off the end of the turntable and on to Crenshaw.   Comment Entered: 11/15/2010 4:45:36 PM  By: howie   - elsegundo Yes im ready to do that, but first we need to get the turntable in.   Comment Entered: 11/15/2010 4:50:05 PM  By: howie   - elsegundo OH, you mean charlie, or choo choo charlie, or for short, crash.   Comment Entered: 11/15/2010 8:27:52 PM  By: charlie  giordano - torrance hahaha crash dummie and engineer charlie giordano. ready to test any new piece of equipment rolling stock and track to make sure it is out fit for even the most rediculously fast railroad operations   Comment Entered: 11/16/2010 5:07:47 AM  By: tom  d - lakewood thinking Im going to have to put some big old hairy post at the end of the turn table track for you two   Comment Entered: 11/16/2010 4:00:41 PM  By: howie   - elsegundo Yes that will stop me, but stopping charlie? well thats another story?   Comment Entered: 11/17/2010 6:17:19 PM  By: charlie  giordano - i need parachuet to deploy a couple bricks on chains and matress or two
We Are Getting Closer to the End By: Tom  Downing	Comment Entered: 11/14/2010 9:26:41 PM By: howie   - elsegundo Great work tom, and too all that helped thanks, next thing we know tom will be breaking up crenshaw blvd., and putting in crossings, redondo beach here we come!   Comment Entered: 11/15/2010 4:14:06 PM  By: tom  d - Lakewood man I think it would be so funny to get some crossing gates.I can see it as your driving down crenshaw the traffic lights start flashing the gates come down you stop and you here the train horn and than this little train with people riding behind it comes across the street with the riders waving at you.it will never happen but it would be grate to see the faces on the drivers
Moonscape By: Tom  Downing	Comment Entered: 11/14/2010 7:25:05 AM By: Steve  Claude - Downey, CA It's going to be nice once it's all complete, a nice addition to the station and a new start to crenshaw.   Comment Entered: 11/14/2010 3:23:17 PM  By: howie   - elsegundo Let the progress begin!!   Comment Entered: 11/14/2010 6:19:25 PM  By: Steve  Claude - Downey, CA It has begun!!!!! Dug out about 75% of the hole for the foundation. Construction might start next Monday.
A Truck Load By: Tom  Downing	Comment Entered: 11/6/2010 5:45:07 PM By: Steve  Claude - Phoenix, AZ It's good Tom showed me how to make switches we are going to need alot here in Maricopa.
PALLET LOAD By: Harold  Hueler	Comment Entered: 11/1/2010 6:44:39 PM By: Steve  Claude - Downey, CA Cool thees will come in handy.
Tom Killed It!!! By: Phillip  Cohen	Comment Entered: 10/31/2010 4:30:02 PM By: Steve  Claude - Torrance Cement pad, project # 843, we should get to it mid July 2076   Comment Entered: 10/31/2010 12:05:06 AM  By: howie   - elsegundo I think im busy that week.   Comment Entered: 10/31/2010 2:12:56 AM  By: Steve  Claude - Downey, ca Well it looks like it will be just me and Tom then.   Comment Entered: 10/31/2010 6:30:02 AM  By: Phil  C. - Torrance, CA You can dig me up and prop me against the wall to watch you guys. I would be 121 years old by then. Probably a little stiff too but I will give you guys moral support and keep the flies away. ;=)   Comment Entered: 11/1/2010 1:21:12 PM  By: howie   - El Segundo Can we use you for a halloween prop?   Comment Entered: 11/1/2010 4:55:28 PM  By: Phil  C. - Torrance, CA Howie, I think that all of us will be Halloween props by 2076 except for Charlie, who will be too old to trick or treat.   Comment Entered: 11/1/2010 8:50:06 PM  By: howie   - elsegundo Yes in 2076 charlie will be old, but i bet he will still be blasting away on the american!   Comment Entered: 11/2/2010 4:13:04 PM  By: Charlie  Giordano - Torrance haha boy wont it be interestng to see what life is like then? Live steaming in 2076! steam engines will really be history then. people will no me thoug has te fasted engineer in the world and all will travel far and near to enjoy a thrill ride around the track on the american haha
My Free Car! By: Phillip  Cohen	Comment Entered: 10/30/2010 8:09:17 PM By: tom  d - lakewood Howie repoed it from me,but he was the ower any ways,good thing he got it befor I painted it pink   Comment Entered: 10/31/2010 9:04:01 AM  By: howie   - elsegundo Tom and i worked things out, i got my caboose back, and i gave tom some magic beans!   Comment Entered: 10/31/2010 2:50:18 PM  By: Phil  C. - Torrance, CA Magic beans are a good thing.   Comment Entered: 10/31/2010 2:34:22 AM  By: tom  d - lakewood Magic beans are great! I ate one of those magic beans and started to fly around the room Maria had to knock me down with a broom, wow what ride!