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I had to cut a "tunnel" in a load bearing wall. I figured since I basically took over the basement and built a permanent layout...no one was gonna complain about a 8X8" hole in a wall

Hey Chowe, If you ever get up to Grand Rapids, I live about a quarter mile away from The Sunset Valley. He is on the other side of Plaster Creek from me. I just found that out during the 2012 NMRA convention.

Im sure its more expensive than a "Z job"
lol

whats the price tag?

I cant make it today but its actually a good show. I'm an O scale guy and I find a few good buys but lotsa N and HO stuff. One of the only shows I go to in recent years that's multi- gauged

Jim is a great guy and very helpful.

wish I could buy a hummer around here without getting AIDS

That joint bar is called a Compromise bar, and probably more abundant then people realize.

Thanks I'll give those a try.

Does anyone have a local contact number for the guys in charge of this yard?

Thanks in advance

mike nowakowski wrote:Yeah, all good stuff, you got to love listening to metal while some SD45's roll by!!

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Yes isnt Prog Metal?? LOL

I also like "YES"

Im into Whitechapel, thrash stuff, prog metal..

Shaved a beaver one time, never a squirrel

shes hot

Thats what ya get for watching Faux News

I can also chime in about Cobb. One of the reasons it is being closed is that it would be too expensive to have to update the environmental controls. I work there almost every outage. Again, great place to work, great employees. This will hurt Muskegon when they close it ( if it ever really does hap...

as a tradesman, the SMELL of money fed my family for 8 or 9 years before they closed. If I recall, they stopped using the digesters back in the mid 2000. I remember walking to the economizer side of the power plant while they were running logs and every great once in a while the process would kick o...

nice work!

I've done a ton of work in that plant over the previous ten years before they closed. Good people, good place to work (if you like crappy plants....which I do )