Locomotive lodge.

[Junk Whisperer]

As I write this,there's two of these old F45's at the Landlord's place. They belong to the leasing company(National Railway Equipment of Ill. ...)who's storing them there,still shows what you can do with all that open space. It's something either Lohnes or Stokes would do ;D! www.gn441.com . ~J/W.

[Brian Lohnes]

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Cooler than hell!

[milner351]

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A friends Dad turned an old caboose into a "guest house" sort of thing.... even brought in sections of RR track to set it on.... amazing what you can do when you heavy equipment at your disposal.

[BigBlockMopar]

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Sweet.
I think I'm kinda glad I don't have (loads) more money to my disposal as trains are something I like aswell... :o :D

[Brian Lohnes]

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I just want a locomotive so I can wear the engineers hat and overalls. :D

[Junk Whisperer]

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Well,you already have the 'build' Bri :o ;D. Locomotives seems to be big Belly terrortory :D. In Stausburg P.A.,theres the Railroad Museum Of Pennsylvania,and on site there's about 2 dozen or so Cabooses set up on Panel Tracks,this is the famous 'Caboose Motel'. ~J/W.

[TheSilverBuick]

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That's awesome. I know in the Clive Cussler books, Dirk Pitt has a train car or two set on rails in his Air Craft Hanger/Home as a guest bed room. Always thought that was cool.

[Brian Lohnes]

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Well,you already have the ROBUST 'build' Bri :o ;D.

All fixed.

[mustang13]

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Well,you already have the 'build' Bri :o ;D. Locomotives seems to be big Belly terrortory :D. In Stausburg P.A.,theres the Railroad Museum Of Pennsylvania,and on site there's about 2 dozen or so Cabooses set up on Panel Tracks,this is the famous 'Caboose Motel'. ~J/W.

The Caboose lodges are actually next to the National Toy Train Museum, the PRR Museum is down the road to the right.
Was at both a few years ago.

http://www.nttmuseum.org/

http://www.rrmuseumpa.org/index.shtml

[mustang13]

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Here are a few pic's I took while at the Toy Train Museum, and one of all the Cabooses

[Junk Whisperer]

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A few years back,you could buy 'an old Cabosse from Conrail(before the CSX/NS 'split'...)for around $5K. Nice pics 'M-13' ;) ! ~J/W.

[Gary 351C]

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One of my favorite locomotives, too bad most of them have been cut up for scrap.

[Junk Whisperer]

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I was able to walk inside the two units on Jack's property,both are former Burlington-Northern(Ex Great Northern..)units. According to the guy's,crewmen LOVED these Engines esspecially in the Winter months,the Crewmen could simply walk into the Engine 'Room' and keep warm,another thing guy's did was to place Soup/Tomato/whatever Cans on the Exhaust Manifolds,wait a few minutes and Volia,pipe'n hot Soup ;D! ~J/W.

[BigBlockMopar]

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...another thing guy's did was to place Soup/Tomato/whatever Cans on the Exhaust Manifolds,wait a few minutes and Volia,pipe'n hot Soup ;D! ~J/W.

Now that's plain silly.... !
I would never do anything like that.... well not with soup that is... ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idkF9DAjVAM

[Junk Whisperer]

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Madness ;D :D! ~J/W.