Good Morning!
The guesser's have said it would be two days of rain, starting at 1am in the night. I looked outside at 5:30am and observed stars and satellite's, so I have no idea where they get their information from. Now at 6:30am the sun is trying to overpower the night, and I can see there is blue sky.
47f this fine morning, and that's according to my outdoor thermometer; not depending on some guessers with access to modern weather radar.
I remember. It's one of four days that I remember where I was and what I was doing when I heard. The other 3 days were the assassination of JFK and the deaths of my mother and father. And I also remember getting drawn for the grade 2 class that got the really nice teacher, in place of Beat-me Browning, the teacher of the unfortunate kids. But, I have a hard time remembering what I did last week.
Lee - The 'O' scale layout looks fantastic. Looking at the photo's, it don't look much bigger than one of
Christian's miniature layouts, but, I'll bet that's an illusion.
Joe - Great to know everything is good with you. Nice to see you make a post.
Garry - I enjoyed seeing the layout with bridge photo you posted yesterday. The bridge reminded me of the prototype photos I wanted to post today. I'll need to build one of those myself, sometime in the future.
Mikey - The 'hack' looks very good, but, I can't see it would be angle parked like that in real life, blocking pedestrian flow of those poor people. I'm thinking it would be parallel parked, or down the alley a-bit more.
Karl - It looks like you have a-lot of vehicles. We have only one, that I purchased based on price alone and it be a 4x4 pick-up. I believe that all of the major players know how to build a truck, so it don't really matter the manufacturer.
Today's prototype photos show CN 2220 leading a short train of empty cars across the McLeod River. The train includes center-beam flats and box cars that will be dropped off at the local Millar Western pulp and saw mill, located just across the river.
CN 2220 is an ES44DC, and the engine helping (CN 5725) is an SD75 I. These large and powerful engines are what seems to be available for switching duties around here these days. I don't know what has happened to the SD40's that are usually used for local switching duties. Perhaps they are being serviced in Edmonton.
Anyway, here is the pics. I can't decide which one I like the most, but, I leaning toward the 2nd shot:
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I believe my rail photography is improving. I'm trying to take more shots of the action type with the sun on my side, rather than taking photos of engines parked in the yard with a bunch of poles vying for photo rights. The parked engine photos are still important for the historical record, but, I would like some good action shots, as well.
Enough rambling. The coffee cup has been emptied. Have a good one folks!