Good Morning World. Mostly clear and 39°, not nearly as cold as the weather geeks had predicted. Looking at three days of tee shirt weather before the next
cold cool front Thursday night, followed by a real cold front Saturday, low now predicted at 24°. Looks like the jet stream is dipping down and pushing La Niña out of the way for a week or so. Cold miserable weather, but no precipitation in the forecast.
Happy Groundhog Day. Let's see if Punxsutawney Phil can dig his way out of the snow cover this year.
Busy day here in the Coffee Shop yesterday with 42 posts to review. Great to see all of the interest here.
Jesse mentioned yesterday, that politics is as depressing as his weather, I haven't seen politics as far in the gutter, as it has been for the last sixteen years in my whole lifetime. It's depressing to think that young people will consider this to be the "normal". I have a firm belief that social media is part of the problem, although not the root cause.
Flo, that steak and eggs that
Patrick is having looks really good to me this morning. Send another plate this way, but make it OJ instead of coffee.
Thanks for the multitude of likes [loves] and comments regarding the rail line shots yesterday;
Karl, Tom O, Sherrel, Alan, Patrick, James, Justin, Rick, Dave, Hughie, Chet, Garry, Troy, Joe, Ken, Chad, Tom, Curt, Jesse.
To all who made additional comments; I am attempting to make all of the right of ways look as realistic as possible. While they are all too narrow, a compromise I had to make, I think that it goes a long way to adding realism and interest to the layout. At some point I want to make some "cab view" videos, but I'm not there yet. I like many of those videos that I look at on the Internet, but one thing that I think detracts from the overall ambience is unfinished, supposedly out of sight places. That's why I almost always complete all four walls of a structure even if it won't be visible from the aisle. Exception being those that butt directly against the backdrop.
Yesterday's time in the train shed was mainly painting figures. No photos of them yet, as they are all unfinished.
That damn drag freight finally moved out of the way, so I was able to get a few more ROW pictures.
Still looking north, taken from the siding switch.
On the left, the beauty salon, on the more rural right, the feed store.
On the left, a large fertilizer/seed dealer, on the right some back yards.
More backyards and fences.
The turnout headed for an industrial siding, part of which leads forward to the propane dealer, backward to the previous seed/fertilizer dealer. Engine in the distance is on that siding. This can be a busy stretch of railroad.
Jerry - Can't help with the E4 hook up since I don't have one. My SIL said to check
here.
Sherrel - Interesting thought regarding ScaleTrains starting a rebuilding program, but I don't think that they have the infrastructure to do that. Maybe down the line sometime. Drove by there once, just south of Knoxville, but they were closed. Looks to be only about 5000 sq ft at best. Maybe they could contract someone locally? There did seem to be additional room on the property.
Alan -
I thought about that, but the condition of the roof is too good!
Point noted.
Chet - Good luck with the sale of the entire layout to one individual, it would certainly be a lot less hassle than selling off individual parts, although probably not as lucrative.
Justin - Best wishes for you finger recovery.
Ken - The Walther's MR kits do not come with interior walls. I made my own on one of them and completely covered the windows on the other one.
Everybody have a great day. Stay safe and separated.
Looks like
Garry answered about Punxsutawney Phil.