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 Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 12:58 pm Post subject: not steam but a chubby diesel |
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Today while I was surfing on here me mum called me into her room and said she had something for me when I asked what had she said guess I guessed her brothers minor she said come and look and I looked into a box and saw a cab roof for a second I thought she,d got me a mss engine until she took it out I could see a rather pudgy diesel she told me that a couple of months ago she had contact with an ebay friend who was into garden railways and she bought a engine off him but he accidentally sold it to someone else and to show he was sorry he not only sent our money back but built me this little diesel and sent it over but sadly the mail service cant even deliver a piece of bubble rap intact and it arrived in a rather sorry state but my parents didnt tell him it was bust because they didnt want to upset him and didnt tell me because they thought I would be rather upset that was a couple of months ago and they thought I wouldnt be able to get it working but a couple of minutes sitting on their bed with them telling me I might be able to use it for parts when I got her to roar into life now all I need to do is put her back together my mum isnt in contact with the man who built this anymore and tells me he is in the navy and incase he reads this I would like to say thank you for this wonderful little diesel. 
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the picture make her look worse than she is.
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Very nice loco
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Thanks it would be an even nicer loco if the postal service wasnt so c..p. 
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Aye i've had 1 or 2 problems with the postal service 
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tell me about it this is like the forth time they have smashed an engine of mine. 
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toxx
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... that's one nice diesel shunter, Paul! Sorry some fat postal guy sat on its box! 
But I'm sure you'll mend her up nicely ... is she 'O' gauge? I built an O gauge shunter last year.
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pauly
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| toxx wrote: | ... that's one nice diesel shunter, Paul! Sorry some fat postal guy sat on its box!
But I'm sure you'll mend her up nicely ... is she 'O' gauge? I built an O gauge shunter last year. |
no shes G
Ill post a pic of her next to a stainz to show her size.
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shame about the postal service wrecking you loco mate but it should be eazy to fix.
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pauly
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| Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Graham-Jilly wrote: | | shame about the postal service wrecking you loco mate but it should be eazy to fix. |
your right it wont be to hard but it just shows you how our mail is treated that engine was welded together and it would take a lot of force to break it like they have. 
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looks a bit better in those last two pics!
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| Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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weird  but in that last pic it looks like its laughing at me 
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your right, it does!
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well Ill show it whos boss lets see it laugh without a motor. 
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you took it out ?
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