Good Morning All. Clear and a warm 80° here on the SFW estate in North Central Texas. Temperature only hit 100° yesterday, humidity was up from Friday to a whooping 28%. Major change coming tonight as there is a 70% chance of thunderstorms and the high tomorrow is forecast to be only 91° after a low tonight of just 71°. It's only for one day though, back into the mid-90's Tuesday.
I didn't mention that while my granddaughter was here, but she brought her own phone! Five years old and she has her own phone!!! She's actually quite adept at using it. She did several video enhanced calls (I guess that's what they are called) to her dad. Mom was off limits at least when I was awake. Goodness, my other daughter made my grandsons wait until they were ten years old before they got their first phones. I guess that I cannot complain though, I actually had my first phone at 4 years old. Except it was attached to the wall and I shared it with two parents and five brothers and sisters eventually! We also shared the line with some neighbors somewhere for a while.
Good Morning Flo. Reckon that Mel can rustle up some Eggs Benedict for me this morning? Tell him to use Taylor Ham instead of Canadian Bacon.
Thanks for the likes and comments yesterday regarding my progress;
Guy, Jerome, Tom O, Garry, Phil, Joe, Sherrel, Louis, Karl, Curt, Jerry, Tom.
Made some more progress out in the train shed yesterday. I mainly added more ground cover to the near side of the main line and ballasted all but the switches in the piggyback yard.
I also added the remaining fence posts to the fence, that's it laid out between the yard and the main in the picture above. Today I hope to get the remainder installed, and manicure and touch up the ground cover and parking pad.
I have mentioned a couple of times about the two industries to the south (trackwise) in this scene. They have been there for five or six years, but I never completed the parking area in front of one of them, nor have I added final details to the area. I'll be doing this while completing the ramps just because I had finally cleared "magazine mountain" out of the way.
Ginette Organic Foods warehouse is a now discontinued Walther's kit, Valley Citrus Packers. I renamed it since citrus doesn't grow in my locale.
Next to it is Stephen's Grocery Distributor, also a Walther's kit known as Grocery Distributor, duh!
Both industries are in active switching use despite the incomplete parking area at Ginette's.
They are on the lower level, the first thing you see when you enter the train shed. They are immediately underneath the small rural town scene that I posted here about two years ago.
Here's a couple of shots to remind you.
Excuse the background clutter. I still need to add additional shelving underneath the layout for storage.
Guy - Thanks, I also use a Canon PowerShot camera; I guess that I just have to learn how to use if better.
Yes it is amazing what Lego has come up with. Although they still hurt when you step on them barefooted in the dark. While that is a model railroad museum, they have a significant display of Lego creations along the walls in some of the layout rooms. I'll make another post with some examples so I don't use all of my photo space in this post.
Regarding the ground cover: I do not have any issues with sucking it up with the vacuum. While there are many ways to fasten it down, my method seems to be foolproof. That's not to say that others aren't foolproof as well. I'll try to remember to take some step by step shots this week when I resume, for everyone's benefit.
Sherrel - I have thought about adding a chain gang scene like that, and I may eventually do so. Woodland Scenics has a ready made
figure set that was used in that scene.
Everybody have a great Sunday. I'll be back in about an hour or so with the Lego pictures from the museum for
Guy.