<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I was given a Bowser Challenger kit back in the early ‘90’s. Runs really good. Pulls a LOT!! I need to get some fresh decals. Thinking about swapping the smoke box front to something N&Wish. <br><br><div dir="ltr">Mark Lindsey<div>Y3a@earthlink.net</div><div>571-352-6358(cell)</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 17pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17pt;">Sent from my iPhone</span></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Aug 6, 2025, at 3:00 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">You have UP locos? 🤢 That's odd.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">😀</div><div dir="auto">Mike Rector</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 6, 2025, 12:17 PM NW Mailing List <<a href="mailto:nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org">nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">So lets repaint our UP locos to all black to include Norfolk and Western on the tenders. Just for spite<br><br><div dir="ltr">Mark Lindsey<div><a href="mailto:Y3a@earthlink.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Y3a@earthlink.net</a></div><div>571-352-6358(cell)</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:17pt"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:17pt">Sent from my iPhone</span></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jul 30, 2025, at 8:42 AM, NW Mailing List <<a href="mailto:nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">You know I'm not sure what to think oh this. I'll say I started feeling better about UP after reading <span style="color:rgb(255,238,217);font-family:"google sans",roboto-medium,sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(40,41,42)">Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869.</span><div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(255,238,217);font-family:"google sans",roboto-medium,sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(40,41,42)"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><font color="#ffeed9" face="google sans, roboto-medium, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(40,41,42)">David Baker </span></font></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 30, 2025, 7:44 AM NW Mailing List <<a href="mailto:nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">I simply don’t like UP. My least favorite Class 1. I well understand railroad operations and financials. I well understand mergers. I don’t like the damn yellow. It’s hardly a Southeastern railroad. I simply don’t like UP.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Ed Painter #70</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 6:49 PM NW Mailing List <<a href="mailto:nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Ed<div><br></div><div>The UP started using Armour Yellow with Harbor Mist Gray in 1940. It became standard on switchers and cabooses in 1947. That is only 85 years. The Santa Fe started using the War bonnet paint scheme in 1937. It was used until 1996, only 59 years. Not every corporation feel the need to re-brand itself with a new logo. </div><div><br></div><div> belong to multiple historical societies because I am interested in their history. Corporate mergers do not alter past history. </div><div><br><div dir="ltr"><div>Jim Stapleton</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Jul 29, 2025, at 17:24, NW Mailing List <<a href="mailto:nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Their paint scheme is tired and has been around forever. I don't like it. I like BNSF far better. Financially and operationally either would be fine.<div><br></div><div>Ed #70</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM NW Mailing List <<a href="mailto:nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Ed, Roger, and others: why? The Norfolk and Western, the railroad for which we are enthusiasts and modelers, has been gone for 43 years. The classic Norfolk and Western, in some views, has been gone since 1964. Some would say their interest ends in 1960, when the last steam locomotive was in revenue service. Even if you dislike UP, and its boatload of predecessors, why would that reduce your interest in your railroad? <div><br></div><div>This may increase this organization's interest in what is going to be another fallen flag. Or the UP Society May embrace them. Let's see what happens.</div><div><br></div><div>Frank Bongiovanni</div><div>Mostly modeling the Virginian, which has been gone longer than it existed.</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM NW Mailing List <<a href="mailto:nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Me too!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Ed Painter #70</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <<a href="mailto:nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div><div dir="ltr">Won't matter to me as that would cancel interest! I hate the Yellow Hoard!</div><div><br></div><div>Roger Huber<br>Deer Creek Locomotive Works</div></div>
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