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Nice post...that Fat Albert and the Gang Lambweston Reefer!

Screamin' Eagle!

I'll get some more up tommorrow...

Why yes! I am a Rail Nerd and fuckin' proud!

Well, this is just the beginning, just a reminder, all flicked by me in the dirtiest state of the South!

short? I was just gettin' started...check back often...I'm from the city to busy to hate, because were busy benchin'!

Cracksaves, you can be anyone you wanna be! It has been a while sir...

This has been a presentation of Mr. Tilford, your friendly Georgia bencher...

Most yards are located in what some people would call "ghetto" areas. Trainyards tend to lower the land value around them, most cities will buy the land and build public housing projects. Since most yards were built years ago, they tend to be in innercity areas. The exception would be newer or recently built intermodal terminals which tend to locate in the outskirts area where alot of logistics, warehousing, and business parks are located. Because of the locations of trainyards and their proximity to low income areas, crimes against the railroads are common. I know a retired city cop, who I swear looks like Richard Pryor, and he tells me stories about working w/ the railroad police kicking in doors in the housing projects busting up railroad theft rings. I know theirs cats on here who have crazy stories as well from their areas. If you can't handle the consequences or be prepared to act when a certain situation arises in a trainyard, layup, dock spot, mainline track, or whatever, my best advice would be to stay out...

You can get em anywhere from around $3 for a cheap kit, $8 for a decent kit you assemble yourself, to about $24 for a ready to run kit w/ metal details...These prices are for HO scale kits, the most popular scale w/ model railroad enthusiasts. Locating a shop, just check the yellowpages... Oh yeah, I reccomend anything from Walthers, Athearn, Roundhouse, and Atlas for good quailtiy HO scale plastic kits w/ nice details and crisp paint schemes...

those MTA cars are pretty hard to find, and kinda expensive as you move up in scale from what I've seen...although Walthers produces some HO scale transit cars for BART, DC's transit system, and Virgina's passenger rail...

Yall cats haven't found the section at the hobbyshop for autoracks? Damn, their dope as hell, bout $20 though, Walthers makes em for HO scale. Also have any of yall seen those prepainted special edition cars, I know their is a Nace t2b smoothside hopper, and a Wisconsin Central n2n box by some various cats. Also in some model railroader mags their is some ads for dealers that make scale graffiti decals that are pretty fresh and taken from real graf. Also in one of the recent issues this one guy took flix of a caboose in Portland with Jaber/Diar and someone else on it, scanned em to his computer, made a decal out of it, and then used it on his N scale caboose, that shit was dope all weathered up and rolling.