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Jon and Isaiah Tune Up By: Carrie  Fisher-pascual	Comment Entered: 11/20/2009 12:02:01 AM By: Dad  Dad - Dad's House Dad is so happy to see this picture!! Thank you Carrie for capturing this special moment in time for me to see.
Jillie Belle Gets Ready By: Joe  Vanderhoof	Comment Entered: 11/18/2009 4:38:16 PM By: Charlie  Giordano - Torrance, CA what did tim use as a brake back then   Comment Entered: 11/18/2009 5:32:14 PM  By: Phil   -  Air brakes in the box car plus locomotive brakes. Maybe?   Comment Entered: 11/18/2009 9:40:20 PM  By: charlie  giordano - torrance ca he didnt have a little hydolic brake like jim did he   Comment Entered: 11/19/2009 11:53:36 AM  By: Phil   -  Jim's hydraulic is for his tender only, the rest of his train runs on air. The Jillie Belle has mechanical locomotive breaks and the box car has the air compressor and tank for the air brakes. I believe the trucks you got for your car were from the boxcar after Tim replaced them with air brake trucks.   Comment Entered: 11/19/2009 4:01:55 PM  By: Charlie  Giordano - Torrance, CA o ok. Jims hydolic brake is pretty cool it think. sure helps when ur in the yard and what not. the air brakes are kind of a delayed reaction but theres alot weight in all those cars!
Club cars under construction By: Steve  Claude	Comment Entered: 11/16/2009 7:12:04 AM By: charlie   - torrance these 2.5   Comment Entered: 11/16/2009 5:31:12 PM  By: Tom  Downing - Lakewood, CA Take a good look Charlie. As I was told, these are not car frames but are some of the pieces for a new "time out" box for members that are found tobe running speeding locos will have to sit in for a time out.   Comment Entered: 11/16/2009 7:58:38 PM  By: Charlie  Giordano - Torrance, CA well if any of u r looking for me thats where ill be 24/7
Club cars under construction By: Steve  Claude	Comment Entered: 11/15/2009 9:41:10 PM By: Phillip  Cohen - Torrance, CA Looking good Steve.
Those darn steam engines By: Charlie  Giordano	Comment Entered: 11/14/2009 7:14:07 PM By: Steve  C - Going cross-eyed looking at CAD files Charlie must have been at the controls, too much speed for the brakes to handle!!!   Comment Entered: 11/15/2009 7:48:52 AM  By: Charlie   - Torrance CA mathew actually. im now a retired steam engineer   Comment Entered: 11/15/2009 3:00:52 PM  By: Steve  C - ? Retired???? Looks like you are not planning to run steam anymore, better make you a life member.   Comment Entered: 11/15/2009 4:47:04 PM  By: charlie   - torrance exactly. my back cant handle that american haha   Comment Entered: 11/16/2009 4:13:17 PM  By: Phil   -  Charlie not running steam! Naw don't think so. He drinks a pint of Green Velvet steam oil every night before going to bed. Steam is in his blood.   Comment Entered: 11/18/2009 9:17:54 AM  By: charlie  giordano - torrance haha its really weird that no one in m family ever realy liked trains and i havent relly grown up around them untill recently. maybe im a jones!
Charlie running round on Mathews electric By: Charlie  Giordano	Comment Entered: 11/14/2009 7:10:32 PM By: Steve  C - RPG, CA Hopefully Charlie was not going too fast with the "new" passenger car.   Comment Entered: 11/15/2009 7:48:20 AM  By: Charlie   - Torrance this run was a test to see its handlng on a high speed passenger train. rolled good and me and that lady had a ball. she liked to go fast ike me!!!! what a cool little electric 2
Heather,Tom and Isaiah at Bittercreeks steaming bays By: Rudy  Guajardo	Comment Entered: 11/10/2009 7:34:26 AM By: charlie  Giordano - Torrance thats the famous Tom Downing look there haha. Gota love it. Did u guys steam around that long   Comment Entered: 11/11/2009 7:52:06 AM  By: tom  d - lakewood we ran all day[light] just two riders my loco had some problems with the injeter/water fitler that we had to deal with off and on all day long hopefully next year we can go to the NG meet as a group phil says he will be up and running by then ?   Comment Entered: 11/11/2009 7:58:21 AM  By: Charlie  Giordano - Torrance WELL IM SET FOR THAT! one day we'll head up to train mountain and really have some fun. We need to take up some of Jim and Tims cars 2 and show them off! would be awesome going up there with Phils big loc. just no thomas face haha   Comment Entered: 11/11/2009 11:13:16 AM  By: pHIL   - Torrance What is wrong with Thomas? :)   Comment Entered: 11/11/2009 9:05:11 PM  By: tom  d - lakewood its not thomas its phil-EEEEEEEEEEE   Comment Entered: 11/12/2009 9:29:47 AM  By: Charlie  Giordano - Torrance, CA i think they might run you over with a K-36 if we bring the thomas face haha. Cant wait to get up there.I need to finish my big boy   Comment Entered: 11/12/2009 7:33:14 PM  By: Phil  Cohen - Torrance, CA You mean Wall-EEEEEEEEE?
Morning Preperations By: Charlie  Giordano	Comment Entered: 11/4/2009 2:36:54 AM By: Tom  Walker - Australia I am sure it is a nice looking locomotive but a side view would have been much more interesting, also is it LPG or coal fired. Lovely wagons, lovely job.   Comment Entered: 11/4/2009 6:33:16 AM  By: Charlie  Giordano - Torrance, CA Tim uses Vegtible Oil lately but weve found that it burns pretty dirty. He might be back using Diesel 2 but I think hes still using the fried food oil stuff.   Comment Entered: 11/6/2009 6:59:32 AM  By: tom  d - lakewood Ive been told charlie gos so fast that pepole swear hes burning some kind of rocket fuel in the club steamer, zoom   Comment Entered: 11/6/2009 4:13:31 PM  By: charlie   -  i like to use noss
How do I do this? By: Charlie  Giordano	Comment Entered: 11/1/2009 5:01:44 PM By: Steve  C - Home I just need to teach you rhe difference between full and "why is water coming out of the stack?".   Comment Entered: 11/1/2009 5:53:30 PM  By: Charlie  Giordano -  hahahahahaha thanx for he pics by the way. my computer hard drive still exepted them   Comment Entered: 11/1/2009 9:53:01 PM  By: tom  d  - lakewood ca you boys need to lern to fill loco with water on the fly no more of is stopping to smell the roses stuff   Comment Entered: 11/2/2009 6:30:48 AM  By: Charlie  Giordano -  ok. wat will your lessons run me
marks new caboose By: Tom  Downing	Comment Entered: 10/28/2009 9:58:38 AM By: Phillip  Cohen - Torrance, CA I like that color blue, that is what I wanted to use for my locomotive and tender.   Comment Entered: 10/28/2009 10:59:27 AM  By: tom  d - lakewood it was not blue it was purple, was purple with a hint of blue, at night it looked blue under the lights but was veryy purple in the day time.   Comment Entered: 10/28/2009 11:26:01 AM  By: Phillip  Cohen - Torrance, CA That is ok. I will base the color on the image. That is a really nice rich blue. Will look good with the gold trim.   Comment Entered: 11/3/2009 7:30:39 AM  By: Charlie   -  ur engine wont be blue for long Phil! U should run coal with your Prarie haha