Checked, but no skellys in there.Pre WW2 but not sure the year. Any gangster remains in there?
Checked, but no skellys in there.Pre WW2 but not sure the year. Any gangster remains in there?
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.
That's very cool scrounge to drive home with after work... instead of an empty bed...Another successful lunchtime scrounge, a little oak and some beech. will be ready for the 2025/2026 burning season.
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It's possible we are related somehow,, For a long time I traveled with my favorite Jonsered and a maul.. Didn't ride around with an empty grocery getter truck... Sometimes just stop long enough to fill up a Subaru. Nothing like a good physical work out instead of going to a gym.. someone say "free heat"..?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.
I learned to drive on a 65 Country Squire with a 390 4bbl that was pre-owned by Charlotte Ford (she got a new car every 6 weeks),Probably drive like a tank compared to today's standards, but I'd take a 65' Galaxie 500 over just about anything
You do know I had a 427 Ford engine in my 1970 Boss Mustang (302 body). The 302 had spun bearings when I bought it and I had purchased the 427 short-block when I was at college. It was a 1966 Holman + Moody seasoned side oiler block with cross bolted mains. The crank had been trued (cut 10 + 20), but it had low riser pistons, so I put 428 CJ heads on it. (Medium and Hi Riser heads had larger combustion chambers and needed pop up pistons). 428 CJ head had valves and combustion chambers like a low riser, but intake ports like a medium riser. They were developed by Tasca Ford because the larger valves on the Medium Riser heads would not fit in the smaller 428 bore.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.
I love me a 67-68 fastback, but I will just have to live my life looking at pictures, no average enthusiast can afford one when rusted hulls are selling for 10k. Dad has a '67 coupe that was his first car, its super fun to drive. We put stiffer springs and dropped the front end an inch or so, and put a Ford Racing T5 in it. IT really needs the 289 rebuilt, the crank isn't in the best of shape when we stuck a set of bearings in it 10 years ago. To be super nice it needs a touch of body work and paint but its a super straight/solid car otherwise.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"!
Looks like the left overs from one of Warren Yahr's stories about being a smokechaser in Idaho in the 1930s. With winter approaching, Some of you may want to read his book by a fire in the woodstove. https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/smokechaser_warren-yahr/1110691/#edition=2970914&idiq=23517788It was a pretty good hike up to the road. Must have been a wild ride. Any clue as to what and how old it is?
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One other way you can tell it's harvest season here in the Upper Midwest is when BNSF moves it's "surge fleet" power around for the grain rush. This is the biggest power move I've seen, 29 locomotives.
The story as to all the logo/scheme changes was when BNSF came up with it's "Heritage I" scheme the ATSF people claimed it was "too BN", so then "Heritage II" was created by adding the ATSF cigar band to the nose and changing a few other things (if you ask me this was the dumbest scheme and I don't care for it at all) and everybody was unimpressed with it. But when Berkshire Hathaway (Buffet) took over the new wedge/swoosh "Heritage III" was implemented to squash all the bickering and since then if a locomotive is rebuilt or in need of a full repaint it now gets the H3 (or H4 on the older locomotives, the only difference between H3 and H4 is the yellow striping is narrower on 4). The reason some SD70Macs and some Dash 9s were delivered in the BN Executive or ATSF Warbonnet colors but with BNSF markings was to get motive power out on onto the road ASAP until a new scheme could be created, some Dash 9's were delivered in grey primer until they could get painted. Due to all the differences in the BNSF paint schemes has lead to some interesting "Frankenscheme" locomotives, especially on the Dash 9's that can have up to 4 different paint schemes on 1 locomotive.That's pretty wild. Along the mainline, I'd see them drag an extra engine or 3 in a freight train. or 2-3 engines in a string, but never anything like that. Looks like buffet has them change logos every year. Must have been at least 6 different logos/paint schemes on the orange ones.
Not sure I’d be up for this technique…
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