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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
613 and 614 By: Charlie  Giordano	Comment Entered: 10/25/2009 12:15:17 PM By: tom  d - lakewood Later on I talked to Gene Allen and asked about the numbers on the locos and he said he made a lot of front number plates with # 613 but when he built his latest loco he had run out of the number plates so he cast up some with number 614. He said there should be a few other 613 and 614 numbered locos out there. So the number #613 on the club loco has nothing behind it. It is just a part that was put on the loco, tom   Comment Entered: 10/25/2009 8:06:36 PM  By: Phil  Cohen - Torrance, CA Sounds like we should get a number 21 or 22 plate. Something that the Yosemite Valley would have actually used. I like his sanders, wonder if he sells the parts for them. We could really use a working sander on the American. Phil   Comment Entered: 10/26/2009 6:55:35 AM  By: tom  d - lakewood ca Yes a new number is in the work as I think it would look better. I didn't want to change the number when we got her running as I thought it was a number the builder had put on for some reason. I think we all now know that is not the case.   Comment Entered: 10/26/2009 6:45:12 PM  By: Charlie  Giordano - Torrance I REALLY THINK IT WOULD LOOK NICER WITH A NEW SNOW PLOW!!!
Safety First! By: Phillip  Cohen	Comment Entered: 10/24/2009 7:18:56 PM By: Steve  C - RPV Last run to Crenshaw!!!!   Comment Entered: 10/26/2009 7:01:08 AM  By: tom  d - LAKEWOOD Hey, don't let Bob see this photo as he may just try to load a train like this and I dont think my loco can pull that many riders!
Steve Claude smiling for the camera By: Heather  Ambler	Comment Entered: 10/18/2009 7:40:44 PM By: Steve  C - Padded room Man I look good:)   Comment Entered: 10/21/2009 10:11:37 PM  By: Phil   - Torrance, CA Are you saying that you should be in a padded room? I'll second that!   Comment Entered: 10/26/2009 7:13:23 AM  By: tom  d - lakewood looks like Steve is holding on to the loco so he doesn't fall, must have been a rough night, now we know that the AA group dosn't work for every one!
American By: Steve  Claude	Comment Entered: 10/18/2009 5:08:06 PM By: Heather  Ambler - San Pedro, CA Must have finished the dishes early to work on some trains..   Comment Entered: 10/18/2009 7:42:21 PM  By: Steve  C - Kitchen sink Naw, just started 'em now :-)