Good afternoon. Not much going on out here. Things have cooled off with the high expected to be only in the mid 60's. Getting a bit better at bowling. Never touched a ball since last year and didn't start well last week, but improved with every game and did manage a couple of 200 games last night. There are still mountains out there. With a change in the winds, got a glimpse of them today. The wife went to town for groceries and I got the laundry done.
GeeTee - It looks like you have plenty of room for a layout. I never took many photos during construction, but that was ages ago before digital photography became so inexpensive and easy. I love watching a layout come together like
Curt is doing.
Joe - Enjoyed your photos. I do prefer the original Broadway Limited.
Garry - Excellent photo down by the stock yards.
IBKen - It is quite the job trying to keep the decals perfectly straight. I think the ones that were the most difficult were the number boards on locomotives. I never had any custom decals made for the Logan Valley. All of the locomotives and rolling stock were done one digit and letter at a time. With the way my eyes are now, I wouldn't even attempt it.
Lee - Good photos.
Sherrel - Keep that heat (and smoke) down there. I like those Classic Metal Works trucks as they have some nice ones that work great for my time period. The only thing I dislike about them is the extension at the rear of the truck on vans. I cut mine off as you can see here on this Chevy van at the left of the photo. Looks a lot better to me.
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Hughie - That track plan has a bit of everything. You can run trains plus I see a lot of switching opportunities.
Willie - Great photos as usual. We like those Walthers track cleaning cars at the club. With the doors open to the public (normally) we can get a lot of dust blowing into the layout rooms and with all of the track we have it can be difficult to clean. Once in a while we will run the brass cleaning cars with the tank car but during normal operations we always try to have at least one on every train running. I picked one up to use at home which I will also take to the club.
Garry had mentioned the CSX car you have. I really couldn't find one that I really liked so I took this Milwaukee Road body shell from a Walthers car and put it on the chassis for the track cleaning car. The tracks at the club can ger so dirty that we may have to clean the pad a few time during operating sessions.
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I can't make out the dates on the car to make sure that they are for the correct time period, so that means no one else can either.
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This Geep was one of my first locomotives that I painted for the Logan Valley. Shaved off any cast on details and added grab irons, bell, horn plow, MU hoses etc. Did two of these which also had the motors replaced with can motors and run almost at the exact same speed as the Atlas Alco units.
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It was fun trying to keep the lettering straight. The RS-3's had number boards and marker lights added as some of the details.
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My son just arrived with his wife to work on their kitchen table. We'll have to work in the basement as I have crap spread out all over in the shop plus it is not heated. I think they want to pout the epoxy top and it's too chilly in the shop.
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