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KleineDicke
Location : Deep in the Heart of Texas (Houston)
| Subject: Hello, Bonjour, Guten Tag Sat Oct 24, 2009 3:38 pm | |
| Just wanted to introduce myself to the members of the forum and say howdy to y'all. I've visited your forum before and decided yesterday to join up. Although I live in Texas, I am quite interested in railroading (both real and garden variety) on the continent. I own mostly LGB stock and mostly European style. I have been a railroad modeler for a long time, and I still have my first train set - a 1955 Lionel O Scale passenger set with Wabash A-B F3 Diesels and aluminum streamliner passenger coaches. My Dad got it for my Christmas present when I was 1 year old. I drifted off into HO scale stuff as a teenager and well into adulthood. Somewhere along the line I was introduced to LGB - I won a starter set in a raffle, and the rest, as they say, is history.
I am fairly well traveled, having seen quite a bit of Europe and Asia on various business trips. I have visited a couple of tourist railways in France - the latest being CFBS last year (what a great little railroad they have- I love their Corpet-Louvets). Somewhat unusual for an American, I can actually speak (somewhat) other languages, namely Français, Deutsch, and Bahasa Indonesia. Also unusual for an American, I actually like France (and most of the French folks I have met); I'm also a fan of Edith Piaf's music.
Hopefully future trips to the continent will allow time to perhaps make a visit to some garden railways as well.
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mikeyh
Location : Dordogne France
| Subject: Re: Hello, Bonjour, Guten Tag Sat Oct 24, 2009 3:45 pm | |
| hi Bill and welcome to the forum. I have a very good friend who lives at Mission in Texas, not too far from you. Re your user name;I thought everything in Texas was BIGMikey | |
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KleineDicke
Location : Deep in the Heart of Texas (Houston)
| Subject: Re: Hello, Bonjour, Guten Tag Sat Oct 24, 2009 3:58 pm | |
| - mikeyh wrote:
- hi Bill and welcome to the forum. I have a very good friend who lives at Mission in Texas, not too far from you. Re your user name;I thought everything in Texas was BIG
Mikey Hello, Mikey. Carl warned me you would be the first to comment on my user name. As I told him, the Dicke part is accurate, the Kleine part not so much. Mission Texas is actually a bit far from Houston, almost 400 miles (close to the border with Mexico). But I am closer than you are . | |
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mikeyh
Location : Dordogne France
| Subject: Re: Hello, Bonjour, Guten Tag Sat Oct 24, 2009 4:03 pm | |
| Hey 400 miles in Texas?He could be your neighbour!! You're going to fit in OK here, you have a sense of humour!!! As does Scott our other colonial friend
mikey | |
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philkelly
Location : Vienne, France and Islington. London
| Subject: Re: Hello, Bonjour, Guten Tag Sat Oct 24, 2009 4:27 pm | |
| Bonjour, Bill:
Playing Piaf, Charles Trenet, Charles Aznavour while running trains is the essence of "tortillardisme" (hope the Academie doesn't ban my neologism!)
Phil | |
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Carl Hibbs Admin
Location : Haute Normandie - visitors welcome
| Subject: Re: Hello, Bonjour, Guten Tag Sat Oct 24, 2009 4:33 pm | |
| Glad to see to two getting along then. ...mmm Edith Piaf music. I must admit to being a 'fan' myself and I spent some of my younger days at a café in Lille with a cellar bar called le Bateau Ivre where on Thursdays each week people used to gather for Edith Piaf recitals and a sort of Cognac and Gitanes fuelled Karaoke. | |
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mikeyh
Location : Dordogne France
| Subject: Re: Hello, Bonjour, Guten Tag Sat Oct 24, 2009 4:37 pm | |
| Bet they all wore black and smoked very strong gaulloise's Carl Its where the beatniks started!!
mikey | |
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Bearcastle
Location : Brie
| Subject: Re: Hello, Bonjour, Guten Tag Sat Oct 24, 2009 4:47 pm | |
| Bonjour, Bienvenue Laurent | |
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KleineDicke
Location : Deep in the Heart of Texas (Houston)
| Subject: Re: Hello, Bonjour, Guten Tag Sat Oct 24, 2009 5:52 pm | |
| - philkelly wrote:
- Bonjour, Bill:
Playing Piaf, Charles Trenet, Charles Aznavour while running trains is the essence of "tortillardisme" (hope the Academie doesn't ban my neologism!)
Phil Don't forget Bourvil. | |
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mikeyh
Location : Dordogne France
| Subject: Re: Hello, Bonjour, Guten Tag Sat Oct 24, 2009 5:55 pm | |
| I'm gonna be a real thicky now (cos all the others will know) but what is the loco in your avatar Bill?
Mikey | |
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Paul Stainz Holt
Location : North Wales
| Subject: Re: Hello, Bonjour, Guten Tag Sat Oct 24, 2009 5:56 pm | |
| Hi Bill. Good to see you here. (You no doubt know that your sign in name refers to the loco in your avatar) | |
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mikeyh
Location : Dordogne France
| Subject: Re: Hello, Bonjour, Guten Tag Sat Oct 24, 2009 5:59 pm | |
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Paul Stainz Holt
Location : North Wales
| Subject: Re: Hello, Bonjour, Guten Tag Sat Oct 24, 2009 6:01 pm | |
| - mikeyh wrote:
- I'm gonna be a real thicky now (cos all the others will know) but what is the loco in your avatar Bill?
Mikey Its an LGB loco Mikey - used to be supplied in the digital starter set along with the yellow Kof shunter | |
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Paul Stainz Holt
Location : North Wales
| Subject: Re: Hello, Bonjour, Guten Tag Sat Oct 24, 2009 6:03 pm | |
| - mikeyh wrote:
- quoi? Explique SVP
mikey Kleine Dick translates to "Little Dick" - the name this loco is affectionatelly known as. | |
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Paul Stainz Holt
Location : North Wales
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mikeyh
Location : Dordogne France
| Subject: Re: Hello, Bonjour, Guten Tag Sat Oct 24, 2009 6:11 pm | |
| ah thankyou Paul! theres me thinking Bill was getting personal!! any idea why this loco attracted the name?
mikey | |
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pjti
Location : Galizano, nr Santander, Nth Spain
| Subject: Re: Hello, Bonjour, Guten Tag Sat Oct 24, 2009 7:05 pm | |
| Greetings from a rather damp Northern Spain and welcome - pull up a chair make yerself comfy. | |
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French Chuffed
Location : Droitwich UK
| Subject: Re: Hello, Bonjour, Guten Tag Sat Oct 24, 2009 7:33 pm | |
| Hello, Good evening, and welcome, as one old entertainer says. This is the friendly forum. | |
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KleineDicke
Location : Deep in the Heart of Texas (Houston)
| Subject: Re: Hello, Bonjour, Guten Tag Sat Oct 24, 2009 7:39 pm | |
| - paul stainz holt wrote:
- paul stainz holt wrote:
- mikeyh wrote:
- quoi? Explique SVP
mikey Kleine Dick translates to "Little Dick" - the name this loco is affectionately known as. Actually, dicke means thick or fat, so Kleine Dicke means the little fat one. A reference to the locomotive's bulky look. The loco in the avatar is LGB 2076, the Spremberger Stadtbahn locomotive affectionately known as die Kleine Dicke. | |
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mikeyh
Location : Dordogne France
| Subject: Re: Hello, Bonjour, Guten Tag Sat Oct 24, 2009 7:57 pm | |
| thanks for that. never a day passes that i dont learn something from this forum!!
Mikey | |
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Guest Guest
| Subject: Re: Hello, Bonjour, Guten Tag Sat Oct 24, 2009 8:16 pm | |
| Bill, As the other Francophile American on the list, welcome! - philkelly wrote:
- Bonjour, Bill:
Playing Piaf, Charles Trenet, Charles Aznavour while running trains is the essence of "tortillardisme" (hope the Academie doesn't ban my neologism!)
Phil And Leo Ferré too. cheers, Scot O. |
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mikeyh
Location : Dordogne France
| Subject: Re: Hello, Bonjour, Guten Tag Sat Oct 24, 2009 8:22 pm | |
| Personally i play the theme tune from 'allo 'allo ( I kid you not!!) cultured arent I?
mikey | |
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Paul Stainz Holt
Location : North Wales
| Subject: Re: Hello, Bonjour, Guten Tag Sun Oct 25, 2009 4:39 pm | |
| - mikeyh wrote:
- Personally i play the theme tune from 'allo 'allo ( I kid you not!!) cultured arent I?
mikey I like that show...............ahem..........sorry | |
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Carl Hibbs Admin
Location : Haute Normandie - visitors welcome
| Subject: Re: Hello, Bonjour, Guten Tag Sun Oct 25, 2009 6:23 pm | |
| What makes me laugh more than the show is my (French) wife's totally straight faced reaction to it. The more serious she gets the more I laugh. If you like Allo Allo you MUST watch 'La Grande Vadrouille.' I've posted this before but it is 'Franglais' at it's best. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Grande_Vadrouille | |
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Bearcastle
Location : Brie
| Subject: Re: Hello, Bonjour, Guten Tag Sun Oct 25, 2009 7:12 pm | |
| Hilarious, one of the most viewed film in France, a classic, got the DVD somewhere. | |
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