Good Morning All. 29° and partly cloudy right now. Expect clearing soon and 60°+ for a high for the next week or so, maybe even 70° on Sunday. Yesterday was not an entirely good one on the SFW estate. While I was at the grocery store, we had a major water leak. Fortunately my wife had stayed at home and immediately turned the water off...trained her well. Nothing to do with the freezing weather, but it was a flexible braided metal hot water supply line to the dishwasher that burst! Well that took up a good hunk of the afternoon removing the broken one and going to the local hardware store for a replacement. I guess that 35 years is the life span of one of these hoses.
Still had a little time in the train shed later. Glued the wheels on an old Magnusom resin kit of a cement truck that I am finally assembling after buying it maybe 10 years ago. I remember purchasing it at my LHS, and the owner remarking that it was part of his original inventory when he opened the store in 1993. By the time I got it, he had marked it down twice! I painted all of the underside black, but I am still trying to decide on a paint scheme for the rest of the truck. Did a little more organizing around my new workbench. Hoping to get back to some scenery later this afternoon.
Justin - Boy, someone did a really nice job on that "Diablo Junction" layout. It's too bad they didn't include an overall shot of the layout in the video. It also contains my favorite Downtown Deco structure with the pawn shop on one end.
I also like your research pictures of the C&O stuff that you continually post. The area that I model isn't nearly as picturesque. Of course my aversion to making trees rules that kind of scenery out!
Chet - Yeah! The urge to just run trains is just too strong many times. Like you, I really enjoy switching, so industries and sidings are the first (and in many cases the only) things developed in all of my towns. I currently have seven towns with over 65 industries, so I can go for quite a few days (weeks actually) without repeating operations. That's why I cannot seem to get much scenery done as quickly as some others.
Curt - I don't really mind the peel and stick windows on the AMB kits. I usually add a dab of glue to many of them though. After my initial post, I went out and counted ten of their structures on my layout with # 11, the "Windsor Hotel", still in the box awaiting construction.
Ken (D&J) -
They have snacks, drinks and a beer keg set up in the social area.
That's my kind of company. Congratulations to you and all of your co-workers on winning the contract. Also sorry to hear about your cousin, I hate going to funerals of persons younger than me, if that's what is next in your case.
Greg - And I thought that I was later than most when I leave my Christmas tree up until January 6. Good luck on your project. I think that it will be real interesting. See if you can get an "after" photo to go with the one that you posted.
Garry - Your scene continues to come along very nicely. I wish that I could bring myself to working on
one scene from start to finish like you (and others) do. My mind just wanders too much.
Eric - That's sad to hear about your grandmother, I do imagine that she's ready to move to the next life though.
Everybody have a great day and a good weekend as well.
Willie