🛠 1/3/22 Build Week Group

[Kuze]

I can't get over how this color changes so much!!

Its Oxford White. The first picture makes you think its Cactus Gray because it was taken from inside the car with the windows up. =)

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[Tarheel_Wes]

I Vote Wes the best dressing Bronco picker upper!!!

Congrats brother… looks awesome!!!

Haha thanks man!

 

[Cat]

Well guys:

570 days since my reservation on July 14

And I’m taking it home!

@Tarheel_Wes CONGRATS!!! you look perfectly, "suited", to your new Bronco! <i know, i know...bad joke>

Nicely done, Wes!!

 

[Baja]

Hey I got one of those, kinda lol

Y'all pushing liquid tows with that one?

 

[RideEmCowboy]

Is there a route that runs along the northern US to Seattle?

It looks like that would be BNSF. I found that the cities given in the UP and CSX phone recordings don't accurately correspond to UP cities on the maps.

 

[Cat]

Pie, anyone?

EDIT: Corrected charts on later post.

 

[MConn]

welp... I suppose I'm not getting my car this weekend. It was 30 min from me but they put it onto another train and now its 3.5 hours away heading towards Philly. Why would they do that?!

 

[Tarheel_Wes]

@Tarheel_Wes CONGRATS!!! you look perfectly, "suited", to your new Bronco! <i know, i know...bad joke>

Nicely done, Wes!!

OK. I am now going to tell you all a story that only this board can appreciate, and it is something that can only happen to me.

As some of you know, I am an attorney. I have a general practice which means I do some traffic tickets a few accidents stuff like that.

Of course, I waited until the last minute to add the insurance on my new bronco.

When I called Geico to add the bronco I got my quote and then he said “let me just run the reports and I’ll get right back to you”.

The guy comes back on the phone and he says “Wes, I have some bad news this is showing me that your drivers license has been suspended as of two days ago.”

Ummm….WTF….

Then it hit me. I had this old expired registration ticket from the county next-door on my old FJ cruiser, which many of you know, has a blown engine.

Apparently, my dumb ass missed my own court date.

Geico tell me there is nothing they can do until my suspension is cleared.

Being that it’s Friday, here in North Carolina there is not much court going on; but faster than you can even blink, I throw my suit on and drive that rented 2020 mustang like a bat out of hell to the county courthouse with an order clearing my failure to appear.

Now, finding a judge in North Carolina on a Friday to sign an order is rather like ordering a Ford bronco and expecting it to be built within a reasonable amount of time: it ain’t gonna happen.

But, somehow, someway, the bronco gods were smiling on me because when I walked into the courthouse the judge was standing there in the hallway!

He signed the order striking my failure to appear and the Clerk sent the information to the DMV!

Disaster avoided! I should’ve had a better lawyer ha ha.

 

[Baja]

That place looks shady to me, might be a good idea to mount one of these.

These movies were always good for a laugh!

 

[TowBoater]

Y'all pushing liquid tows with that one?

Yea, our boat pushes black oil.

 

[Cat]

welp... I suppose I'm not getting my car this weekend. It was 30 min from me but they put it onto another train and now its 3.5 hours away heading towards Philly. Why would they do that?!

Are you sure its just not the empty train heading backwards?

 

[Cat]

Yea, our boat pushes black oil.

Wow...there are some IMPRESSIVE peeps in our Build Week!!

 

[RideEmCowboy]

That is prolly the empty car going in reverse. Maybe your new toy is in the rail lot.

Anyone else on west coast having trouble tracking via CSX?

First off, they're system has a hard time getting the rail letters correct. I suggest using the keypad to enter the letters. It's still a little wonky, but at least accurate. My rail letters are BNSF so I entered 22(B) 62 (N) 74 (B) 33 (F). First number correlates to the letter, second number is the position. Look at your keypad and it'll make sense.

Second, I'm in San Diego. On Monday, the CSX system said my rail car had been delivered to customer location in San Diego (where I live). It's about two weeks early. I got excited and reached out to the dealership, but they said they don't have it yet. Wednesday, I checked CSX again and the system said it was in National City (small town adjacent to San Diego) so I figured it's just moving between yards no big deal. I checked again today (Friday) and now it's in Chicago. The CSX tracking system is pretty screwed up and not accurate from what I've experienced.

I could never get the key pad option to work. I would take a deep breath and say all 10 digits slowly and clearly in one exhale. Note that the recording goes up to the most recent location, then backlists all previous stops.

 

[Duke.Roughneck]

Pie, anyone?

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I think we're missing some models here?

 

[TowBoater]

Y'all pushing liquid tows with that one?

Here's a couple more for ya.lol

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