Re: Any news on Loco #168?
| March 20, 2015 01:41PM |
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Dirk Ramsey Wrote:
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> Just keep Rooooooso's paint brush
> away from the poor thing.
weston1879 Wrote:
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> The last I saw it had a blue boiler.
Hey, youse guys -
Just because I attended college only about a mile from #168, and visited her fairly often in the early sixties (nineteen-sixties, not eighteen-sixties), you can't blame the blue boiler jacket on me! And I would NEVER use a brush on a boiler jacket, nor attempt to paint anything larger than an airpump, cylinder jacket or counterweight with a can of spray paint. Besides, Floppo cured me of the latter bad habit nearly five years ago:
And rumors to the contrary notwithstanding, I am not to blame for #489's jacket being SPRAYED green - not BRUSHED green - back in 2010. Here's a photo of the perpetrator, and - as you can clearly see - it's NOT me!!
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/22/2015 12:22PM by Russo Loco.
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> Just keep Rooooooso's paint brush
> away from the poor thing.
weston1879 Wrote:
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> The last I saw it had a blue boiler.
Hey, youse guys -
Just because I attended college only about a mile from #168, and visited her fairly often in the early sixties (nineteen-sixties, not eighteen-sixties), you can't blame the blue boiler jacket on me! And I would NEVER use a brush on a boiler jacket, nor attempt to paint anything larger than an airpump, cylinder jacket or counterweight with a can of spray paint. Besides, Floppo cured me of the latter bad habit nearly five years ago:
And rumors to the contrary notwithstanding, I am not to blame for #489's jacket being SPRAYED green - not BRUSHED green - back in 2010. Here's a photo of the perpetrator, and - as you can clearly see - it's NOT me!!
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/22/2015 12:22PM by Russo Loco.
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