[Shaylover]

UUmmmm I was just wondering, seeing that I now have two Aster locos, will I be classed as an Aster Snob?

I have the Aster Shay #7 and the new Baldwin B1 that I've renumbered to #9 and named Pinochio because of it's large schnoze (stack).
I have other steamers, ie Accucraft, Argyle, Roundhouse so this might mitagate the accusation.
I trust this question will not start any of those horrible slanging matches of the past.

 

[Shaylover]

Well that is a nice list. I agree that mainline standard gauge scale should be 1/32.
I don't have Aster on speed dial but I do have Gordon Watson on speed dial. And I have bookmarks to Argyle Locomotives. Does that count?

I'd like the Challenger, but it would have to be in Clinchfield not that 'other railroad'! If it was in that 'other railroad's' colours then I think my AC-12 and the S-12 would kill it!
Or better still the H8, now there's a hairy chested loco if ever I saw one.
Phew! Charles had me worried there for a while but it looks as though I might be safe.
Y'all behave yourselves over there!

 

[Shaylover]

Posted By Steve S. on 17 Mar 2010 02:26 PM
Gosh.................... ASTER neck ties, ASTER caulk, ASTER towels, ASTER shirts, ASTER steam oil, and ASTER water. You all really know how to hurt a guy. Right when I thought I was top ASTER SNOB DOG I find out that there are so many things I did not even know about. Kind of put me in my place

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Hey Jeff, be sure and bring that towel with you when you come to Houston, OK ??


Phew! Well after that long discourse, I feel that I will never qualify to be an Aster Snob. I don't know if that is a good thing or not, but I do feel a weight lifted off my shoulders.

And Zubi, no I won't be getting any of the Aster log wagons, Pinochio will be too busy pulling the wooden flats and other wagons that I build for my smaller 45mm loco's.

Sometimes I wish that I lived in the US of A to run at some of your running days, I suppose in a few hundred years when they get the space/time continuim adjustable we'll be able to slip across the pond for a few hours then slip back into my own time here in Australia without worrying about airports and what I carry onto the aircraft.

 

[Shaylover]

Posted By Dave -- Use Coal on 20 Mar 2010 10:46 AM
Shaylover,

I bet you never guessed how complicated this Aster Snob business could get.


You're not just whistling Dixie Dave! What have I started?

I thought I was a fair hand on the wooden spoon,l but it Looks like I have some to learn yet.