Puddington
"Where's Waldo..." ( and I don't mean Jimmy ) is a phrase most of us have heard..... Waldo travels the world looking for adventure..... guess what, so do rail cars.........
Interchange service has been around since North American railroads used wood burning 4-4-0's - a car may spend it's entire life on it's home rails - or may not see them for years at a time, instead roaming the foreign rails of another road.
Ok, so here's my idea.............. see this little guy....?
He's a Puddington Valley 40' boxcar that has "lost his way"..... wanna see where he can end up?
I will ship him in a special, re-usable box and with his "passport" to any member - I'll pick one at random who responds to this post in the next 24 hours.
When you receive him, and lets call him "littl' puddy" you have to run him on your rails for a week or so, take and post a picture of "littl puddy" here at SCR and then make one small addition/alteration to him. Some weathering, a re-stencil, a new running board, anything that you can think of without making him unrecognizable. Then you fill out his passport and post that you are ready to send him on his next journey, you pick at random the next place he visits and ship him.....and so it goes.....
How many places can "littl puddy" go and how many roads can his wheels grace..... can he get across the Canada-US border, can he cross the "little pond", or even the "big one" - where will he show up........ ? Who knows...
Ok, the clock is ticking - if you want to see littl' puddy on your rails, let me know......
This could be fun !
Interchange service has been around since North American railroads used wood burning 4-4-0's - a car may spend it's entire life on it's home rails - or may not see them for years at a time, instead roaming the foreign rails of another road.
Ok, so here's my idea.............. see this little guy....?
He's a Puddington Valley 40' boxcar that has "lost his way"..... wanna see where he can end up?
I will ship him in a special, re-usable box and with his "passport" to any member - I'll pick one at random who responds to this post in the next 24 hours.
When you receive him, and lets call him "littl' puddy" you have to run him on your rails for a week or so, take and post a picture of "littl puddy" here at SCR and then make one small addition/alteration to him. Some weathering, a re-stencil, a new running board, anything that you can think of without making him unrecognizable. Then you fill out his passport and post that you are ready to send him on his next journey, you pick at random the next place he visits and ship him.....and so it goes.....
How many places can "littl puddy" go and how many roads can his wheels grace..... can he get across the Canada-US border, can he cross the "little pond", or even the "big one" - where will he show up........ ? Who knows...
Ok, the clock is ticking - if you want to see littl' puddy on your rails, let me know......
This could be fun !
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