Good Morning, Everyone!
It might be 35F at the moment, but, the thermometer is heading up to an uncomfortably warm 60F today. Looks like I'll have to break out the short sleeves and short pants. Might have to get outside and do a first rake of the lawn, since the snow is melting so quickly; it's flooding in some of the lower areas. I'm safe from flooding, with my house up high and sitting on 90' of sand. As a matter of fact, my home is the highest house on the street, but, it never floods the higher reaches in town anyway. - We have three rivers meeting up in town; the Athabaska, the Mcleod, and the Sagimatawah. With the sudden spring melts, these rivers get quite high trying to deal with all of that water.
I haven't been posting for a couple of days; just didn't have much going on with isolation and laziness dominating the weekend. And I don't like posting, if I have no photos. I did do the odd thing, here and there. Since I received the KD couplers last week, I was able to prime the flatcar pair I'm working on. I'll try a get them painted this week.
Toot - I like the Montana photos a lot; the buildings and landscape in the background, as well as the trains. I'm always scanning the background for interesting buildings and such, that are scratch-build candidates.
Garry - That is a beautiful layout you have. Wonderful photos; I do hope you keep posting such photos from as many angles as there are degrees on a circle.
James - I know that stupid people's incredibly selfish antics makes for interesting video, but, I believe they would get more views and likes if they showed these criminals getting beaten at the end of each video.
Willie - I feel sorry for you; to have those horrific, monstrous insects building nests in your layout. Wow!! No wonder open carry is legal in Texas.
Boris - Everyday, another great photo to enjoy. Well done!
On the home front, I've began preliminary actions to scratch-up a CN 3rd Class Depot, taking inspiration from this 1960ish photo, taken in my hometown:
Because the HO building is slightly taller than my 3" wide balsa stock, I have to make some wider board:
When the edge glued planks are dry, I can begin cutting out wall sections.
This project will be built off of a ScaleModelPlans set I've purchased. I feel that downloading a set of printable plans is cheap, compared to drawing and scaling them yourself. I like it this way:
My building will be stucco, instead of clapboard. Almost all the photos I find of 3rd class depots in my area are stucco.
Whitecourts depot is no longer standing, by the way; and I cannot find any oldtimers who remember it even being downtown. So, I'm glad I found that photo on the net. Don't know who took it, though.