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Rudy and Heather By: Charlie  Giordano	Comment Entered: 9/29/2009 5:28:42 PM By: tom  d - lakewood hay check out this guy and his gal out for a ride on there hot rod
Rory and his S-12 By: Charlie  Giordano	Comment Entered: 9/29/2009 5:24:46 PM By: tom  d - lakewood hy just come on down and see rory he may just give you a grate deal on this like new loco and you can pet his dog spot
alantic chassis running on air By: Charlie  Giordano	Comment Entered: 9/27/2009 3:31:44 PM By: Charlie  Giordano - Torrance CA i cant wait for thisengine to be done. Me and Rudy and a few other members have decided to start piecing her back together. if anyone else is interested please talk to Rudy. this will be for sure a learning experiance and quite the challenge but once shes done, she will be an amazing engine to run and operate at SCLS and at meets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   Comment Entered: 9/28/2009 3:11:41 PM  By: Steve  C - Local Asylum If it need any machine work done let me know. I have a good asortment of tooling for my mill and lathe if it's needed   Comment Entered: 9/29/2009 8:12:17 AM  By: Charlie  Giordano - Torrance CA im sure somewhere down the road we will. right now what we need is some sheet to put around the boiler. Russian iron would be realy cool if we could get ahold of that. Im sure your experteist will be a very big help in this project   Comment Entered: 9/29/2009 2:22:06 PM  By: Steve  C - The dog house What about good ol' american iron!   Comment Entered: 10/1/2009 6:24:48 PM  By: Charlie  Giordano - Torrance, CA well the americans not powerful and this engines got a brand new boiler and she has huge cylinders so u can probebley pull a 3 or 4 car train loaded with ppl with the atlantic
Mark working on his SD40-2 By: Charlie  Giordano	Comment Entered: 9/26/2009 5:59:45 PM By: Selina  Bogusz - Spring Grove, IL, United States Hi Mark, you shaved your head. The train is really cool. Where are the pictures of you driving?
Jim at the Helm By: Phillip  Cohen	Comment Entered: 9/22/2009 5:24:33 PM By: Dave  Fontes - Rohnert Park,CA Jim, Nice clean stack!!. Dave from the Bitter Creek Meet.
Charlie and his new car frame By: Charlie  Giordano	Comment Entered: 9/20/2009 12:54:08 PM By: Steve  C - home Damn, that looks good. Did you gus paint or powder coat?   Comment Entered: 9/21/2009 6:44:08 AM  By: Charlie  Giordano - Torrance, CA My dad just used some primer in a spray can. it relly turned out awesome and my dad pushed me down all the grades and it roled perfect. cant wait untill its done. its gonna be a super kewl car. the frames amazing but hose RMI trucks are just fabulous!!!!!!!!!!   Comment Entered: 9/21/2009 1:29:49 PM  By: tom  d  - lakewood charlie it looks like its a little funny to sit on now but you do get the good look at the tracks as you run on them. how are you going to do the seatting on your car ?   Comment Entered: 9/21/2009 4:36:16 PM  By: Charlie  Giordano - Torrance, CA i want to have big bucket seats and i guess my dad might be able to get some at work that r hydrolic or something. i dont want to do a bench but if you have any suggestions...let me know id like to make it relly kewl. it ran relly smooth and the trucks just worked awesome.   Comment Entered: 9/21/2009 7:50:14 PM  By: Steve  C - RPV, CA It's going to come out nice. You will have the most comfortable riding car in the club. Are the sides cut from steel plate? Looks like 1/2 inch plate from the pic. Now you just need to convince your dad to buy an engine!!! There is a nice RMI kit on DLS right now.   Comment Entered: 9/21/2009 8:53:47 PM  By: Charlie  Giordano - Torrance, CA thats half inch plate and im thinking about going wth that 225,000 dollar K-26 the have on DLS haha   Comment Entered: 9/23/2009 7:12:21 AM  By: Charlie  Giordano - Torrance CA wait ooppps. that 3/4 inch plate my dad said.   Comment Entered: 9/23/2009 2:48:35 PM  By:    -  That has got to be a heavy car. But with that much weight down low it will be very stable and go through the yard switches empty wit no problems.   Comment Entered: 9/23/2009 3:37:45 PM  By: Charlie  Giordano - Torrance, CA YEA its got to be at least 200 pounds. myb 3
Thumbs up from Chad By: Charlie  Giordano	Comment Entered: 9/18/2009 6:26:24 PM By: chad  sullivan - la mirada ca united states that guy is looking good!
Parts, parts and more parts!! By: Steve  Claude	Comment Entered: 9/18/2009 6:57:56 AM By: Charlie  Giordano - Torrance CA HOW MANY OF THESE YOU GONNA MAKE????????????   Comment Entered: 9/18/2009 2:19:46 PM  By:    -  5 to start   Comment Entered: 9/18/2009 7:04:03 PM  By: Charlie  Giordano - Torrance CA wow.
More lessons By: Charlie  Giordano	Comment Entered: 9/8/2009 12:53:16 PM By: Theresa  Hiney - Los Angeles, California, United States This was a day filled with magic
lulu ll is getting closer to running By: Tom  Downing	Comment Entered: 9/5/2009 9:28:36 PM By: Tim  Brothers - Torrance, CA I love coal too, but you will all have to know where the fire hoses are...   Comment Entered: 9/21/2009 1:22:04 PM  By: tom  d  - lakewood Im thinking small loco small fire we just P on the fire and it will go outha ha, but we will have too make shur we have some water around when we run this one