Gene

Arrogant fellow wasn't he.

My loot from the Mothership in Laval,Quebec, just north of Montreal.(see favourite one-stop shop thread) It did impact the credit card

A few more from The Mothership

Went to a hobby shop just north of Montreal on Wednesday...it has been nicknamed The Mothership. Long-story short....owner rich and doesn't care if stock sells or not..he sells at MSRP, no deals,no discounts. He probably has $2-3 million dollars of inventory, including stuff going back to the early 1990s...those he sells at 1990 MSRP. No website,no internet connection...strictly old-school.

When our club decided to go with DCC and build a new about 10-12 years ago we decided on NCE. The thing that really convinced was I had a small home Inglenook layout useing NCE and one of the other club members had just converted his home layout, without mentioning it to us, to Digitrax. Once all the members had tried the two diffrent systems they all unanimously voted on going with NCE for the new club exhibition layout...including the member who had gone the Digitrax route...he immediatly sold his Digitrax and bought NCE.

Dudders..I do agree with you and have been doing exactly that both through their webpage and their Facebook page...and on every forum I am a member of...venting can be healthy...I just keep in mind that it will probably actually accomplish nothing of substance.

And it would accomplish nothing.

1 of 3 owned by CP

Martin I was responding to specifically this this by you when I wrote that......"All is not lost. You can simply pay them $399 and your work will be restored. For 14 years hosting that's $28.50 per year, or less than $2.50 per month, which seems reasonable to me." How or where people will store or host their photos going forward will be resolved over the coming days.....how to repair broken posts,blogs etc is going to be the big issue.

Sure..thats assuming they actually remain solvent after you pay them. And even if they do, what about the folks, retired or on fixed-income and the not-for profits who cannot afford that kind of money every year. Personally I don't care because I stopped using them years ago...but I suspect we are all going to see alot of holes in various forum posts all over the internet,including here that become virtually useless due to Photobuckets actions. In the meantime just remember, everybody who has bern using their free service did so at the behest of Photobucket....nobody forced them to provide fre hosting for the past 14 years, and nobody stole a service from them.

Well duh! That's pretty obvious by their actions....so what's your point?

Why Photobucket is changeing its operating conditions is pretty much irrelevant. How they implemented the change and its effect across the world is the point. The way they have implemented this whole thing has destroyed thousands upon thousands of hours of work by millions of people. 14 years of photos illustrating tens of thousands of forum posts, blogs, charity sites, sale sites etc have now been left with holes were photos used to illustrate the subjects discussed have now been made worthless. If it isn't actually criminal it seems pretty close and was definately unethical in my opinion. I would never trust Photobucket again and I certainly would never give them any money after this type of behaviour.

Its very sweet.

A few more, Bachmann " Visit Alberta" cylindrical hoppers, weathered using acrylics,pastel powders and oil paints

I do like the ribbed sided hoppers also...as well as the new Intermountain Canadian cylindrical hoppers.

I think this is an Atlas model.

Thanks Tony...that answers my question. I'm familiar with your work and posts from Protomodeler.com...that is were I became aware that you were writing a book. Cheers Gene

Tony...what happened with the book you were working on last year??

The other 44-tonner is straight DCC..no sound. The S2/S4 is a Bachmann DCC soundvalue loco.....and now I have to go Google the Alexander Railroad.

Somewhere,fairly recently I read a post by somebody who did do this in a 45-tonner I'll try to see if I can find it and link you to him.

Are Austrains still in business and producing models??

My layout is just a 6ft plank..so I have to use some form of rolling-road for break-in and to really test decoders etc. But I see no need to buy large, expensive units...instead I just use Bachmann EZ-Riders

My newest loco...the HO Bachmann 44-ton shunting locomotive with ESU sound and stay-alive circuitry. The awesome installation was done by my favourite go-to DCC company, Tony's Trains of Essex Junction, Vermont, whom I highly recommend. Enjoy. Cheers Gene https://youtu.be/pJsa4ovMfwM

Hi John, nice to see you again, I hope all is well. ...how I missed this thread up to now I have no idea, but I look forward to following your progress on this great looking project. Cheers Gene