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<div>That sounds like a good idea to me, that each of us donates a high quality car to the club of an era we each choose. Can discuss it at a club meeting, which I hope to be able to attend in the near future.</div>
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From: Alameda County Central Railroad Society <accrs@mail.accrs.org><br>
To: accrs <accrs@mail.accrs.org><br>
Sent: Sun, Jul 9, 2017 12:10 pm<br>
Subject: Re: [Accrs] Head count<br>
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Message From: Dean & Margaret Lewis <a href="mailto:lewis2@earthlink.net">lewis2@earthlink.net</a>
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There is nothing wrong with running steam. Most of the club cars that
would fit in that era are in the worse shape. They have been around
the longest. Running steam with modern cars is not realistic unless
it is an excursion. <b><font color="#3333ff">For shows and the Fair,
is only seems appropriate to run cars that match the era. </font></b>
I have a whole string of ATSF 40' reefers that I would run with
F-units. I certainly wouldn't run them with a SD40-2. Likewise, I
wouldn't run my 4-8-4 on the TOFC train I was running the other day.
Let's clean and rehab the cars that we have, get rid of the junky ones
and go from there.<br>
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Here is a novel idea. Why don't each of us donate a new quality car,
of an era of our choice, to the club. That would more than make of for
those we should remove from service. Pay our annual dues and add a
new car at the same time. Now that would make a CLUB.<br>
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On 7/9/2017 11:00 AM, Alameda County Central Railroad Society wrote:
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<div dir="auto">I think we should keep a fleet of roolingstock that
is older than the 70s for those of us that like running steam. Being
there are some members that are picky and chew out members running
equipment that is out of era in one form or another. I personally
don't want to come to the club to get chewed out because all I could
bring was a locomotive and the only cars available are out of era.
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<div dir="auto">Before any disposal takes place this should be
brought up in a meeting. This is a CLUB environment and not a personal
railroad. We need to as a club represent multiple facets of the
railroading world and not scare people off because what they want to
model differs. </div>
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<div dir="auto">Andy K.</div>
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<div class="aolmail_gmail_quote">On Jul 8, 2017 1:16 PM, "Alameda County
Central Railroad Society" <<a href="mailto:accrs@mail.accrs.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">accrs@mail.accrs.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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From: Dean & Margaret Lewis <a href="mailto:lewis2@earthlink.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">lewis2@earthlink.net</a><br>
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Good old person to person contact is best. Sure technology is a
wonderful thing, but for us, it really doesn't seem like the way to
go. I would rather see us do more on the layout.<br>
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We could add another lightning bolt or two. We could change out all
those hot colored lights with LED's. It would make it cooler in the
building. Adding the hot box detector on 37 with speakers by the
control panel would be a nice addition.<br>
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I also would like to see a concerted effort to clean and rehab the club
cars. Some of them need to go in the dumpster. They have really come
to the end of being useful. I have worked on several cars that need
repair but I can't do it all. I know that each of us have a period we
like to model. With that said, I think that freight cars that can't
resonably be used in a semi modern era of mid 70's and on should be
dropped from the club freight cars. Those are the ones in the worst
shape. Cars like the green pipe loads are nice, but they have old
friction bearing trucks. If we want to continue to use them,
replacing the trucks with modern roller bearing trucks might be an idea.<br>
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WE just need to get everything back to as close to like new as we can
get it.<br>
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Dean<br>
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On 7/8/2017 11:42 AM, Alameda County Central Railroad Society wrote:<br>
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Message From: Gary Lewis <a href="mailto:glgslewis@comcast.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">glgslewis@comcast.net</a><br>
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How much will it cost and are you volunteering to set it up and
maintain it? Will it say hello to visitors and answer their questions?<br>
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Gary<br>
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