Good Morning All. 40° and misting, so I guess it's cloudy! High today is only supposed to reach 48°, same tomorrow until sunset when the north winds start howling and it drops below freezing a bit after midnight. Upper 60's by this time next week. Misty most of the day yesterday, stopped only when we drove to town for supper with two other couples at our favorite Italian restaurant. Yes, that's the one
Sherrel.
I'll take the sausage, cheese and egg burritos for breakfast this morning Flo. Lots of hot salsa to go with it.
Thanks for the likes and comments regarding the barn progress yesterday;
Chet, Rick, Chad, Phil, TH, Greg, Jerome, Sherrel, Patrick, Curt, Joe, Tom, Ken, Johnny. Over the years I have built over 300 structures but this is my first attempt at a derelict building. I am pleased with the results so far, but I am far from finished with the overall scene.
Out in the train shed yesterday, I did a tiny bit more weathering on the bars. I added more ground foam around it and added the derelict tractor with one axle on a block. Scenery is not complete as I will be adding trees and weeds but not until after I add the barbed wire fence first.
This is really an antique tractor and I should weather the wheels some more.
Texas Hobo - One of the things that I liked about growing up in Brooklyn, was the tunnels, back remote entrances, air shafts and hidden alleys that we played in as kids.
Greg - You can keep that snow up there at your cabin.
Regarding track cleaning, I really haven't had any issues in the train shed which I built in 2011. Maybe it's still too new to have any dust issues, but I made it pretty air-tight to begin with. For some prevention I use dust-monkeys on every caboose. Like Chet, I use a Walther's track cleaning car which I run about once a month as a preventive measure only. I'm not sure I need to, but it's no big deal to run it so why not. About once every two years I use one of those cleaning wands from Woodland Scenics called
Rail Tracker, to clean remote sidings and spurs.
Patrick - I had a barn similar to this one about a quarter mile north until four or five years ago when the owner donated the aged lumber to the local "
Cowboy Church" and they dismantled it and used it in their new church.
Everybody have a great day. Today is National Cat Day. Mine looks funny today while wet!