Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[diver64]

Another successful lunchtime scrounge, a little oak and some beech. will be ready for the 2025/2026 burning season.
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I used to never travel without my Husky 41. If I saw it down, I'd cut and take it home. For a few years they cleared the power lines near me and every weekend I was cutting and throwing beech, birch and maple into the truck. The clone 543xp $120 saw I just bought I think will take it's place in the truck bed.

 

[Lionsfan]

The only reasons I don't have a classic Mustang (my favorites are 67-68 Fastbacks followed by 69-70 Fastbacks) is that they are ungodly expensive and far less reliable than the Mustang I currently own. They just cannot compete with the combination of performance, handling, reliability and economy of my current Mustang.

Next on my list would be a 66 or 67 Fairlane.

I'm of the age that I would rather drive it than work on it, so I remain content with what I have. Few of my friends still drive "hotrods"!

Probably drive like a tank compared to today's standards, but I'd take a 65' Galaxie 500 over just about anything.

 

[diver64]

Probably drive like a tank compared to today's standards, but I'd take a 65' Galaxie 500 over just about anything.

I so want a 500 with the 427. Saw one at a car show painted deep green and my wife had to drag me away before I did something stupid.

 

[Haywire]

Pre WW2 but not sure the year. Any gangster remains in there?

Checked, but no skellys in there.

 

[Haywire]

 

[GrizzlyAdams86]

Nice! I still prefer the old warbonnet redheads. The blue/yellow looks much better than the warren buffet age BMSF orange. The warbonnets were classy. I grew up within earshot of ATSF mainline, and only 20 miles from Burlington, and the CB&Q mainline. We had Santa Fe shops. Burlington had bigger CB&Q shops.

The Local here up until 2019 had a Dash 9 Superfleet Warbonnet assigned to it, BNSF 627. I only got it once with one of the BN green survivor SD40-2s. The unit in back was a former CB&Q GP40 fresh from rebuild and having been assimilated into the "orange dip" swoosh scheme. Athearn released the "as delivered" ATSF 627 D9-44CW in their Genesis line 2 years ago so I had to get it. Scaletrains did recently release the SD40 shown here (one of the first SD40-2's built for BN) but as it's original number, BN 6339 (which later became BN 6916 then 1922 as seen here). The other picture is of the Dash 9 with the Ferromex ES44 (which I've photographed the real one twice) I have on the layout of one of the model RR groups I've joined.