Good Morning All. Clear and 72° here in North Central Texas. We did not make the predicted high of 94° yesterday, only reaching 87°! Contemplating the weekly grocery/beer run today, Don't need a lot in the way of groceries, but the liquids are low; Diet Coke, beer, iced coffee, sugar-free lemonade, sugar-free A&W Root Beer. I could actually make another week or two on beer, but the wife's Coke and coffee are perilously low.
I'm getting a lot more done outdoors right now with the cooler temperatures. Besides mowing and raking grass clippings, I was able to prune a limb from an oak tree that partially broke about two weeks ago. Got it about 2/3 cut into firewood for fall of 2022.
Just a buttered English Muffin and a handful of bacon for me this morning Flo.
Thanks for the likes and comments regarding the post with the Salvation Army Thrift Store in it yesterday;
Tom O, Guy, Christian, Steve, Garry, Patrick, Chad, Karl, Sherrel, Rick, Ken, Tom.
Worked on two projects in the train shed yesterday. I crawled into the far LH corner to finalize structure placement there and move forward.
As I previously posted, the RH structure is a John Deere Tractor sales and showroom. It was leftover from my previous layout where it also was a backdrop structure. I dusted it off, cleaned it up and checked out the interior lights that I had installed. I will most likely remove them since the showroom window that they illuminate is not visible here. It is scratchbuilt using DPM wall panels.
The structure on the LH side is Star Manufacturing where they make small appliances, ie window A/C's. It is made from Walther's modular walls. I never fastened the track down here as I wasn't absolutely sure of the clearances until I got the actual backdrop in. Imagine my surprise when I checked continuity and found problems. I had always switched them (not often) using idler cars so I didn't know. Found two missing rail joiners.
I don't always add feeders to short spurs. Well that got fixed and the track got painted.
Time now to add ballast and paint that other backdrop wall.
After that I cleaned track on the upper level.
Patrick -
Terry already posted correctly about the wheels, but as I recall, all Blue Box cars came with 33" wheels to begin with, even though that is incorrect for some of them. Using 36" wheels on them eliminates the need to add the Kadee red washer to bring the couplers up to NMRA recommended height. My rule of thumb is to use 36" on all cars with a capacity of 100 tons or greater.
Tom O - Just curious, is your [lap] pool indoors or outdoors?
Everybody have a great day.