Good Morning Everyone. Clear and 38°, going back up to 61° again today before a severe NW wind hits just after noon. We're under a strong wind advisory today and tomorrow. It isn't going to be a cold front, temperatures will remain normal for January.
The weekly grocery/beer trek is set for this morning. Afterwards I plan to continue pruning trees around the estate. I have a few that I skipped over for a few years that are due for a trim. I also need to thin a few out around the pond.
A pair of over easy eggs and a large order of bacon today Flo. Skip the toast as I get my carbs back in line this morning.
Thanks as always for the likes and comments regarding the ongoing layout tour yesterday;
Sherrel, Tom O, Karl, Joe, Gary, Tom, Phil, Patrick, Garry, Justin, Chad, James, Guy, Chet, Hughie, Jerome, Dave, Curt, Ken, Rick.
Too many household chores for me to spend a lot of time in the train shed yesterday. Just an hour or so. I went back to figure painting in an effort to clear some stuff off the workbench and cleaned up just a single structure.
Continuing on with the layout tour where I left off yesterday, we come to yet another Magnuson structure that I built. I simply cannot remember what it is called, but on my layout it is Acme Chemical Distributors.
Next to that is Loy Distributing, another beer distributor, this one is rail served.
Part of this is made from DPM wall components, and the steel warehouse is from an unknown manufacturer.
Tom O - Really nice creek crossing picture that you posted yesterday.
Joe - 2025 is a conservative estimate of layout completion. If I spent more time in the train shed, it may happen sooner. At present about 95% of trackage is in, 50% of that is ballasted. 35% of the scenery is completed as well as around 60% of the backdrop painting. 70% of the structures are in place but not all are completed, signs, figures etc. I sorely need vehicles and trees, and need to paint at least 200 more figures just to fill in what I have. And then there's more weathering on the rolling stock! At least I don't have to spend time shoveling sunshine out of my driveway!
Hughie - Seeing Pinkham's Pallet on that assembly jig really shows just how small that structure really is! So glad that I am in HO.
Curt - Really nice work on the Company Store. Yesterday was the first time that I noticed your You Tube link, nice video.
Everybody have a great day. Stay safe and social distance when possible.