Good morning. Starting the day off at 60 degrees with an expected high somewhere in the mid 90's. Not looking forward to that.
Karl - Nice photos.
Willie - As far as the NP locomotive shortage goes, with such a shortage of power you would thing that someone would step up and offer more than what is now available. From what I have seen, as soon as something comes on the market for NP, it is scarfed right up. You would think they could produce larger numbers and make more $$$.
Went to the club yesterday and it was nice and cool down in the basement. Walking past the wine bar that is above the club,it was like walking through a blast furnace.
I had tried to run my camcorder around the club layout on a flat car, but it is a bit wider than the car and was running into a few obstacles so I found a tiny Go Pro camera for $14.
Almost worked like a charm. It only records for 5 minutes and then starts a new video. It takes about 15 minutes to make one circuit around the layout so I have three videos to complete the trip. I haven't got clue on how to link videos together.
In the first video, the train comes out of the siding and has to stop at a red signal at the bridge. The signal is to let operators know that there is another train on a crossing under the layout. If someone ignores the signal, they have to crawl under the layout and sort things out. You'lll see an a**hole in a blue Navy T shirt. That's me.
Greg will probably enjoy the ore train.
The second video pick up right where the first one ends. For some reason the sound lags about 15 seconds behind the video. In the second tunnel, there is a window that has a circus scene under the mountain. that visitors can see. You can see the viewing window near the end of the third video.
In the third video, you'll see how thick the concrete wall is where they had to bore a hole through thee wall to the Gardiner part of the layout. They didn't mess around building this depot. Again, for some reason the sound is delayed again.
When I was leaving the club, there were a couple of GP something or other putting a train together. There are tracks in the photo so this will be my rail photo for the day.
Toot should enjoy it.
Yeah, they're GP-35's. Had to look them up.
Later.