Good Morning!
Outside looks and smells like it's gonna rain, which is ok with me. The temperature isn't overly warm at 48F. That's ok with me too.
Some time was spent at the modelling bench yesterday. I hope to get a couple of trucks off the bench, so I can get on with completing the Walthers oil dealership.
To that end, I've nearly completed the Coles crane truck completely:
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The hook won't be rigged until I know if the truck is going onto the layout, and what job it will be doing.
The kit itself is a fifty year old 00 scale Airfix kit. The tooling's are likely older than that. My kit is dated 1972.
I'm quite happy with the kit, considering it's age. The only obstacle is that the model looks too big; kinda noticeably out of scale compared to the Sylvan trucks. I'm not sure if it will be fit for the layout, or not. For now, I'll just store it away in a safe place.
I also thought I might show you an industry I photographed on one of my walks.
This is a county gravel pit. The district has contracted Associated Aggregates to come in with their portable gravel crushing equipment, and soften up the natural river bottom gravel into usable road crush. All of the equipment in the photo's are mounted on trailers, so it's all mobile and is only temporarily working here. The employee's are living in a nearby camp.
Here's a few of many photos that I took:
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I took all these photos because it helps me understand what a gravel operation looks like. It's been in my thoughts to put a rail served gravel operation on my layout. That'll give me a purpose to run open hoppers.
My layout won't be exactly prototypical of what my area looks like, but, I feel strongly that there has to be a reason to run the various types of railcars on the layout.
Well, that's my post for another day. Suppose I'll go with the dog before it starts to pour out there.
Thanks for all the likes on my posts. I noticed that I've surpassed the 10,000 reactions point, and I can't remember getting to many sad faces. So I must be doing ok with the photos.
Have a great day, everyone!