Good Morning All. 30° and clear as can be. Current 10-day forecast shows pleasant weather for January, 30°-58° every day except Tuesday and Friday where the highs will be a little lower.
Several comments were made regarding the steelworkers on the building under construction that I posted the other day. Here's a close-up. While they don't show up very well in this picture, you can see representations of chalk marks on some of the beams.
Otherwise, out in the train shed, I glued down the first street on that blank but painted plywood area (not pictured yet).
After painting but still wet. Forgot to fix that seam before opening the paint, I'll get to that today. Blank areas are for the two streets.
More pictures tomorrow.
Spent some time testing my most recent trackwork, originally installed as a small staging yard. I decided during the build to make it a classification yard instead; with an arrival/departure track, two double-ended classification tracks and two stub-ended tracks, along with a suitable yard lead on both ends. I spent considerable time backing a 16 car double-stack train onto all tracks, and through all switches, from both directions without any derailments or other issues. Hurray! I haven't completed the yard lead on one end yet, but due to the track configuration, the main line can be temporarily used. If 79' double stack cars can make it, anything can. I'll be testing other trains over the next few days.
Garry -
Willie .... Your staging yard is packed. .... Maybe you need to expand some more.
Don't tempt me!
I could have made the train shed larger, but I pretty much decided that what I built is all that I will be able to maintain. There are two empty tracks in that picture however!
That's a drag about the heater, at least you had the foresight to have two. Continued prayers for your MIL.
Louis -
Model train is set to sell for record-breaking £200,000 at auction (over $263000)
For that price, I hope the cleaning lady is included!
Mark - Nothing wrong with Plasticville. I have several of their structures, including the switch tower that
Garry posted.
Curt - Really nice job on the farm supply structure.
Sherrel -
Willie -- I know from looking at your photos that I missed so much -just was not there long enough?
Next time - You better be prepared for me "camping out" in your yard for several days! That should scare the hell out of you - LOL.
You won't scare me, heck, I sometimes look into the mirror!
I do have 30 amp service, both 115 and 230 volt as well as sewer disposal. You'll just have to supply the connections.
Tom - Wow! That's a great price for Exact Rails cars.
Regarding the tube tester. I remember as a kid, removing tubes from our television set and going down to test them just for the heck of it. Our set was in a big wooden cabinet with an open back. In our house at the time, the TV was not allowed to be turned on before 5:00 pm except for Sunday football games, so I had plenty of time to return home and replace them during summer vacation. I once fell off my bicycle and broke one, and put it back in with the fragments scattered around the inside of the set. Never got caught and Dad bought a new one the next day.
Everybody have a great day and an awesome weekend.