santafewillie
Same Ol' Buzzard
Good Morning Everyone. Clear and 79° to get the day going here. As I posted yesterday, it finally made it to 100° this summer. The now emboldened weatherman has gone out on a limb and predicted 104° today and 106° for tomorrow. we'll see.
Busy day planned today, dental appointment for teeth cleaning at 0800 and then it's off to do the grocery/beer trek from there. Dollar General, drugstore and the Vitamin Shop are also on the itinerary. Spent a good bit of time yesterday fixing a five year old's toys. My daughter had previously told her that Grandpa could fix anything, so she gathered up a box of her broken toys and brought them along with her for her stay. Mom didn't realize that she had stashed them into her suitcase. I didn't disappoint.
Mostly Aleene's tacky glue, but one required a very small Allen wrench. Earlier in the day I attacked a tree stump in the yard with the chainsaw, which then became a fun science project for us when we counted the rings. My son and I planted it in 1992; he had brought a sapling home from school as part of an Arbor Day program at the time. But we were only able to discern 24 rings. The center ones were just too close for the naked eye. Some kind of Ash Borer had decimated it over the last three years.
Just a BLT sandwich for me this morning Flo. I don't need sausage bits and ground pepper in my teeth for my appointment.
Thanks for the many likes and comments regarding the additional museum pictures yesterday; Louis, Guy, Patrick, Garry, Jerome, Sherrel, Chad, Tom O, Karl, Curt, Tom, Phil.
After clearing the toys off the workbench in the train shed, I went to work modeling. Painted the truck parking pad at the piggyback ramp and added some more ground cover between it and the two existing industries to the south. I solved my fencing dilemma when I remembered some fence material from a different Walther's kit that I wasn't using. Exact same sprues. I really wanted to use my Bar Mills Insta-Fence for the tenement side of the tracks instead of using it around the ramps, because it is a whole lot easier to remove whole or partial boards from it than with the plastic Walther's fence.
Regarding the switch causing the derailing, it is definitely a case of the point rail not completely closing. I didn't do anything about it yesterday because it would have meant leaning into the layout over the freshly painted parking pad. Gosh knows that I already have numerous shirts with painted bellies!
Continuing with the tour of the Mississippi Coast Model Railroad Museum pictures, let's go outside for these.
They have two G scale layouts that are operational, but not yet finished. First is a Thomas layout.
The second is more elaborate.
Then there are the two ride 'em railroads. The first has an engineer and goes all over an acre of terrain.
The other is a self propelled one.
There's a third track loop with the colored ties but that's the only view I have of it.
Tomorrow is the Lego layouts, yes plural!
Guy - I like all of the photos that you posted yesterday.
Garry -
I know that you like to travel, perhaps this could be a destination. It's not quite 500 miles from Nashville, and if you take a side trip through Jackson MS, there's another great museum there as well. Just south of Jackson in Richland MS, there's also a great BBQ joint with genuine Texas BBQ as well as pulled pork from that area.
Everybody have a great day. It's National Filet Mignon Day, as well as National Left-Handers Day. Try eating your steak with your left hand!
Busy day planned today, dental appointment for teeth cleaning at 0800 and then it's off to do the grocery/beer trek from there. Dollar General, drugstore and the Vitamin Shop are also on the itinerary. Spent a good bit of time yesterday fixing a five year old's toys. My daughter had previously told her that Grandpa could fix anything, so she gathered up a box of her broken toys and brought them along with her for her stay. Mom didn't realize that she had stashed them into her suitcase. I didn't disappoint.
Mostly Aleene's tacky glue, but one required a very small Allen wrench. Earlier in the day I attacked a tree stump in the yard with the chainsaw, which then became a fun science project for us when we counted the rings. My son and I planted it in 1992; he had brought a sapling home from school as part of an Arbor Day program at the time. But we were only able to discern 24 rings. The center ones were just too close for the naked eye. Some kind of Ash Borer had decimated it over the last three years.Just a BLT sandwich for me this morning Flo. I don't need sausage bits and ground pepper in my teeth for my appointment.
Thanks for the many likes and comments regarding the additional museum pictures yesterday; Louis, Guy, Patrick, Garry, Jerome, Sherrel, Chad, Tom O, Karl, Curt, Tom, Phil.
After clearing the toys off the workbench in the train shed, I went to work modeling. Painted the truck parking pad at the piggyback ramp and added some more ground cover between it and the two existing industries to the south. I solved my fencing dilemma when I remembered some fence material from a different Walther's kit that I wasn't using. Exact same sprues. I really wanted to use my Bar Mills Insta-Fence for the tenement side of the tracks instead of using it around the ramps, because it is a whole lot easier to remove whole or partial boards from it than with the plastic Walther's fence.
Regarding the switch causing the derailing, it is definitely a case of the point rail not completely closing. I didn't do anything about it yesterday because it would have meant leaning into the layout over the freshly painted parking pad. Gosh knows that I already have numerous shirts with painted bellies!
Continuing with the tour of the Mississippi Coast Model Railroad Museum pictures, let's go outside for these.
They have two G scale layouts that are operational, but not yet finished. First is a Thomas layout.
The second is more elaborate.
Then there are the two ride 'em railroads. The first has an engineer and goes all over an acre of terrain.
The other is a self propelled one.
There's a third track loop with the colored ties but that's the only view I have of it.
Tomorrow is the Lego layouts, yes plural!
Guy - I like all of the photos that you posted yesterday.
They are a museum and not a club. All of the layouts except for one of the HO layouts are built for display and not operations. They have two each of G scale, HO scale, O scale, N scale and Lego. Many of them have on/off panels for kids to run trains in a loop. On our last visit, they were constructing a rather large building out back for expansion, but they were tight-lipped regarding what was going into it. One popular attraction, and a major money maker for them is the event center primarily for kid birthday parties. Railroad themed cakes and party favors. I understand from their website that they are expanding across the street as well.
Garry -
See above response to Guy.
I know that you like to travel, perhaps this could be a destination. It's not quite 500 miles from Nashville, and if you take a side trip through Jackson MS, there's another great museum there as well. Just south of Jackson in Richland MS, there's also a great BBQ joint with genuine Texas BBQ as well as pulled pork from that area.
Everybody have a great day. It's National Filet Mignon Day, as well as National Left-Handers Day. Try eating your steak with your left hand!
