Quote from: jbrock27 on September 24, 2013, 01:24:03 PM
Thank you JBJ, but that was not the question I was looking for an answer for.  I only mentioned the actor along with the episode details in order to give some background to first episode I was able to watch this year, to hopefully give some clues to someone who might be able to tell me what episodes I missed prior to that.  I am familiar with IMDb and Adam Beach, but thank you anyhow.

I'm sorry I misunderstood your question, but you can probably still find what you're looking for by looking up the show at IMDb.

I really don't know from episode numbers, but I might guess that in that three-digit number, the first digit represents the season and the last digit represents the episode, so if you started with episode 304, you started with the fourth episode of season 3, so I'd guess maybe you missed three episodes. But I'm just theorizing.

Spoiler Alert:

I didn't watch from the beginning of this season because I was "annoyed" that they killed off Lily at the end of last season. On the other hand, I suppose there wasn't much left for her to do except to hang around as Bohannon's love interest. They might have sent her back East, or back to England, or something, instead of killing her off. 

I'll probably miss the finale of this season, as I'll be traveling the first weekend in October.

Quote from: jbrock27 on September 23, 2013, 06:26:32 AM
Still looking for an answer to my original question as opposed to commentary about the show itself.  Thank you.

Yes, the chief was played by Adam Beach, who appeared in both those films:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0063440/?ref_=sr_1

Check his filmography.

Incidentally, if you're not familiar with IMDb, it's a great place to look up the answers to questions about who was in what. You can search by movie title or by actor's name.

Quote from: jbrock27 on September 22, 2013, 08:42:06 PM
I take it no one knows how many episodes there have been this season before #304?

I watched 304, 305, 306 and 307 last night.  304 was about Elam and Bohannon going to the Indians for permission to harvest timber from their land for RR ties and they ended up playing Death Match Lax (lacrosse).
The Indian Chief looked like he was played by the same actor who was in Flags of our Fathers and a Navajo in Windtalkers.

The chief was played by Adam Beach.

OK, I finally got to see the pictures, and I love it that the movie theater is showing Who Framed Roger Rabbit? 

Quote from: rogertra on September 17, 2013, 10:13:35 PM
Having said that, I don't know how many times I use the "modify" button to correct grammar errors in posts I've made earlier that I notice only when I log back on later. 

Isn't it amazing how many spelling errors mysteriously appear as soon as you hit the "Post" button? Happens to me all the time, and I would swear I had everything spelled correctly before I hit that button. 

Quote from: rogertra on September 13, 2013, 05:45:56 PM
It's amazing how many model screws just vanish into thin air.

Yes! They go to make a new home in all those single socks that disappear in the laundry.   

Quote from: Johnson Bar Jeff on January 07, 2013, 02:17:47 PM
Another early train, also from my grandpa (and I'm sure purchased used and cheap because the engine mechanism was broken) was a Gilbert American Flyer HO "Pacific Clipper" Northern Pacific passenger train--engine, combine, dome car, and observation--in the beautiful "North Coast Limited" two-tone green paint scheme. It came with an oval of Gilbert's "Pikemaster" track, an early form of roadbed track. The set was supposed to have a power pack, but it wasn't included in the set as given to me.

This train remained in practically like-new condition, as it wasn't used all that much during my childhood. My grandpa had replaced the broken Flyer engine mechanism with one of those old Athearn rubber-band drives, and it simply wasn't strong enough to pull those long, heavy passenger cars. About 20-odd years ago, as a Christmas surprise, my dad took the engine to the LHS where we had done train business since I was a kid, and the owner fitted the Flyer shell to an Athearn "super-power" gear-drive mechanism--so finally, after about 25 years, the train finally ran decently!

Recently, my dad had to spend a few days in the hospital to get his ticker checked out. While he was in the hospital, his house was burglarized, and--you guessed it--the Flyer set was among the items stolen. It was the only part of my vast assemblage of HO trains still under the parental roof. Dad thought the train had survived the burglary, but when I was visiting him for Christmas and went to set it up to run, I knew immediately that it was gone because the box was way too light in weight when I lifted it off the shelf in the closet where it was stored. The thief took the train and the "Pikemaster" track but left the original set box.

I will miss that train. Running it at Christmas at my dad's place had become something of a tradition for us over the past few years.

I can't seem to find a post updating this, so please forgive me if I'm repeating myself, but I do want to report that miracles do still happen: Wonder of wonders, this summer we got the stolen American Flyer "North Coast Limited" set back!

One day back in July I was making my daily eBay check, and I always searched under American Flyer HO for "North Coast Limited" equipment. My jaw nearly hit my desk when I came across a listing for what I was reasonably certain had to be the purloined train; there were several things that suggested to me that it was our stolen "Limited," but the main one was that seller gave its location as my home town!

I immediately got on the horn to my dad, and got from him the phone number for the police detective who was in charge of investigating the burglary at my dad's home. I spoke to the detective and explained why I thought it was our train. Then at the detective's suggestion, I pulled something a little sneaky: I used eBay's messaging feature to contact the seller to ask if I could inspect the set before I bid on it! He replied that I could, and sent me his phone number. I then googled the phone number, which gave me his name and address. I passed the name and address on to the detective, who paid a visited and checked things out.

Turned out the seller had bought the train from someone whom we now presume was the burglar. The detective felt the guy was honest and was caught in a bad place, and the detective suggested I contact the seller, offer to reimburse him what he had paid the presumed burglar for the train, and retrieve the set. I did just that , and the "North Coast Limited" is once again safe at home.

Incidentally, someone has been charged with the burglary of my dad's home, as well as several other homes in the neighborhood.

Now, if they'd just let me alone with her--yes, it's a "her"--in a locked room for a short while, we'd find out what she did with my grandmother's silver. ... 

I can't view the photos here at work (and sometimes they won't download at home  ), but from what I'm able to read here, I like the "retro" concept. Since I don't have any permanent scenery, I indulge in it myself from time to time. In fact, Wiley, I've done exactly what you've suggested, use the Bachmann playground equipment to create a playground for the Plasticville school. I have a number of Plasticville structures that have been in my family as long as I have; others I remember going with my dad to buy (I also remember my dad losing his temper and gluing all the buildings together permanently so they wouldn't fall apart if someone bumped the table  ). These old family pieces hold a lot of innocent, happy memories, so it's fun to haul them out from time to time and use them temporarily.

I was never big on operating accessories, but I do like to use more "modern" motive power to pull consists of "vintage" cars, for example, a red and silver Warbonnet Santa Fe F-unit, equipped with a flywheel, to pull a passenger train of early 1960s Mantua/Tyco streamliners.

If I might just add, here in Pennsylvania I've found the product Roger uses for streets--or at least something very similar to it--at A.C. Moore, another chain of craft supply stores. So if there is no Michael's near you and there is an A.C. Moore, you might check out A.C. Moore.

I second Roger's recommendation of the product--inexpensive and easy to work with. I even use the white to represent roads and pathways of "packed snow" for my annual Christmas village.

Quote from: Bob_B on August 27, 2013, 11:10:07 PM
Sometimes it seems the laws of physics don't apply and "s**t 'appens" :-)

I thought that was a law of physics. 

Quote from: Desertdweller on August 11, 2013, 01:20:42 PM
I think we should cut Casey some slack.  Worked past his limits, he tried to minimize the effects of the crash by staying on the engine and laying on the brakes.  His actions probably saved many lives.  Most engineers I have talked to about this consider him an unlucky hero, as I do.

Amen. 

Quote from: Doneldon on August 10, 2013, 06:05:37 PM
There's also an endearing (to me, anyway), spunky, funky charm to the smaller equipment. I won't use the c-word (no, not that one -- get your mind out of the gutter) but they do make me feel a little squishy inside and like I should cuddle one. Compared to the giants which came later -- and I have nothing whatsoever against big steam -- they evoke images of the little engine that could or man against the arctic.
                                                                                                                                                -- D

I more or less agree with you, D. (Sorry if I'm late. I was away over the weekend.) I.C. #382 was probably "big passenger power" when it was built in 1896.

Quote from: GG1onFordsDTandI on August 08, 2013, 03:32:37 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Jones#Rescue_of_Child_from_the_Tracks

Thanks for that link. I find it particularly interesting that the "legend" seems to have started almost immediately, courtesy of the newspaper man who was on the train.

Quote from: J3a-614 on August 02, 2013, 02:45:09 AM
This coal-burning business reminds me of a story from the Cass Scenic Railroad in West Virginia. . .

For years, this railroad (which is part of the state park system here) ran "cinder cars."  These were, like all the other equipment on this road, former logging flats converted to passenger service.  These were open cars with only handrails and benches, no sides or roof.  I remember one being coupled next to the locomotive on the way up the hill.  Great place for sound, but there was a reason they were called "cinder cars!"

I understand that in the early 1960s, the Strasburg Rail Road used to run an open gondola fitted with benches that acquired the nickname, "The Cinder Catchers Club Car" for the same reason as the Cass cars. 

I never really wanted to ride an open car, and the cinders had nothing to do with it. I felt I would have a more authentic old-time railroading experience if I rode in a coach.

Quote from: Jhanecker2 on July 29, 2013, 06:19:07 PM
Most early engines were wood burners because that fuel was readily available & cheap.

I seem to remember seeing an article in a history journal a long time ago that explained that there was a need for some technological developments--something about the grates--before coal could be used cheaply and efficiently in U.S. locomotives, but I can't swear to it. It might have had something specific to do with anthracite coal. 

And if I remember correctly, one of George Abdill's books includes a photo taken after 1900 of a Southern Pacific locomotive in Oregon with wood piled on the tender as high as the cab roof; I guess at that time wood was still cheap in the Pacific Northwest.