santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
Good Morning All. Happy Father's Day. Here it is clear (no haze today) and 74°. Should be a repeat of yesterday's weather, high around 95°, and like yesterday, no wind to cool things a bit. Plenty of thunder and lightning last night around midnight, but sadly no rain at all.
Father's Day dinner last night at the local Italian "Ristorante" went well. Food was delicious as always. Wife and I go there regularly and all of my kids, SIL's and grandkids except one SIL have been there before. That SIL was impressed and will most likely return. He also picked up the tab for all nine of us. For once, we attended a gathering where we had the shortest drive home, just 12 miles!!! Granddaughter and her family came to the house beforehand and she was thrilled to pick tomatoes in the garden.
Thanks for the many likes and comments regarding the food and weathering yesterday; Gary, Karl, Guy, OB Ken, Troy, Smudge, Tom O, Louis, Curt, Patrick, Rick, Tom, Jaz. See below for better pictures of the hopper.
Out in the train shed yesterday, I retook a couple of pictures of the newly weathered covered hopper in better light.
I then took out a Walther's PS-2, 4427 cu ft covered hopper that I had re-numbered. You can see that the second "8" does not quite match.
I need to clean that smudge off the camera lens!
Again, I am going for the lightly weathered look and on this car, I only used four shades of weathering powders and no paint or graffiti.
The weathering does somewhat obscure the fact that the re-number is larger and brighter than the original car.
Guy - Wives and bathroom doors. Mine is picky. Gotta close them even when there's no one else in the house!
Curt - Package tracking sure shows some of the shortcomings of the delivery services. I don't much get DHL here. Amazon, Fedex and UPS know how to find me, although it sometimes takes a while.
I still buy locos knowing that I have more than I need.
Jaz - I can't dance at all, not even after a six pack of beer! Sad, because I am short and when a short man dances with a tall gal, he gets a bust in the mouth.
Steve J - As Terry posted, RS-3's (Road Switcher) were mainly used on the main lines until displaced by higher hp units. Then they were used on secondary lines.
Smudge - The bus racing video was absolutely great! Which one were you driving?
Random thoughts:
Never heard of a Culvers until it was brought up here. I found some in the Dallas area, but that's too far to drive for cheese curds! I probably make a better burger here at home.
Gasoline yesterday at the little country store near me dropped from $4.79/gal to $4.59/gal since I passed by Thursday. Maybe Hunter B. was out here buying votes!
After years of dogs, cats, chickens, pigs, ducks, geese and kids; we made the choice to live dependent-free a few years ago. I do still take care of either/both of the granddogs occasionally though.
Everybody have a great day.
Father's Day dinner last night at the local Italian "Ristorante" went well. Food was delicious as always. Wife and I go there regularly and all of my kids, SIL's and grandkids except one SIL have been there before. That SIL was impressed and will most likely return. He also picked up the tab for all nine of us. For once, we attended a gathering where we had the shortest drive home, just 12 miles!!! Granddaughter and her family came to the house beforehand and she was thrilled to pick tomatoes in the garden.
Thanks for the many likes and comments regarding the food and weathering yesterday; Gary, Karl, Guy, OB Ken, Troy, Smudge, Tom O, Louis, Curt, Patrick, Rick, Tom, Jaz. See below for better pictures of the hopper.
Out in the train shed yesterday, I retook a couple of pictures of the newly weathered covered hopper in better light.
I then took out a Walther's PS-2, 4427 cu ft covered hopper that I had re-numbered. You can see that the second "8" does not quite match.
I need to clean that smudge off the camera lens!
Again, I am going for the lightly weathered look and on this car, I only used four shades of weathering powders and no paint or graffiti.
The weathering does somewhat obscure the fact that the re-number is larger and brighter than the original car.
Guy - Wives and bathroom doors. Mine is picky. Gotta close them even when there's no one else in the house!
Curt - Package tracking sure shows some of the shortcomings of the delivery services. I don't much get DHL here. Amazon, Fedex and UPS know how to find me, although it sometimes takes a while.
I still buy locos knowing that I have more than I need.
Jaz - I can't dance at all, not even after a six pack of beer! Sad, because I am short and when a short man dances with a tall gal, he gets a bust in the mouth.
Steve J - As Terry posted, RS-3's (Road Switcher) were mainly used on the main lines until displaced by higher hp units. Then they were used on secondary lines.
Smudge - The bus racing video was absolutely great! Which one were you driving?
Random thoughts:
Never heard of a Culvers until it was brought up here. I found some in the Dallas area, but that's too far to drive for cheese curds! I probably make a better burger here at home.
Gasoline yesterday at the little country store near me dropped from $4.79/gal to $4.59/gal since I passed by Thursday. Maybe Hunter B. was out here buying votes!
After years of dogs, cats, chickens, pigs, ducks, geese and kids; we made the choice to live dependent-free a few years ago. I do still take care of either/both of the granddogs occasionally though.
Everybody have a great day.
I'll have to look at it in the morning, but I'll most likely be covering it up. SMH. That's 2 fails. I also glued down the grass patches. Tomorrow I'll weather them and should finish the coal yard scene.
