Happy Saturday, Shop Dwellers! 26*F, partly cloudy and calm with a Winter Storm Warning in effect for my region. NWS predicting snow, 6-12", with a bit of freezing rain to top it off.
Just a note of appreciation for the "likes" and comments on my Friday post -
James, Willie, Patrick, Guy, Karl, Tom-C, Gary, Garry, Sherrell, Tom-O, Hughie, Joe, Justin, Mikey.
Damn, Ken:
I forgot all about those...they never showed? I was considering one or two for myself, then I shifted focus... Did you get your prepayment back?
. . .
Joe, since one of the partners at SMD is a personal friend, I didn't want to press the issue. He did announce at one point at one point [after another delay ~2018] that anybody who
really wanted their money back could cancel their preorder. I'll wait until he says they've cancelled their production plans before I request a refund, I'm sure the SMD model will look much better than my homegrown one.
Jejdjdjdhshehruf in rnrJFK didnsusn! Ofcourse the bell! Completely overlooked that! Maybe I've gotten used to mine not having it.
Well,
Justin, look at the
bright side - you could just change the number on your model to 5887 and save yourself the trouble of having to install a nose bell..
.J/K!
$350 price tag. I can personally vouch for ScaleTrains locomotives, as I have four of their SD40-2's, and their other locos are very popular in my club. I wish they were the (slightly) cheaper Rivet Counters just so I could justify buying more.
I know one was wrecked with MILW, so did WC end up getting all 9 units, or were half of them sold to Fepasa then? I don't remember.
Hmm...if they're offering this model, could that mean a
C&O SD-18 with the low nose and hand-me-down Alco trucks is also in the ST pipeline? If so, then there goes my mrr budget out the window..!
Good morning gang,
20° and clear. NWS has issued a winter storm warning for us, starting tomorrow and ending late Monday, with a foot of sn*w possible.
Ken, I thought you fixed this for this year???
If I get snowed in, its ok. I got enough parts to finish 4 locos, plenty of firewood and SWMBO made a grocery run yesterday.
I'll take my coffee in the corner
Flo, and a few chocolate chip cookies for now.
Oh well...what can I say,
Karl? I gave it my
best shot! [Sorry, no refunds]
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Well I got quite a bit done today...but
none of it mrr-related! In addition to my normal Saturday chores, I also had to make sure that my snow blower was fueled-up and ready for use, and - maybe even more important - that I'd actually know how to
use the damn thing! Reading the owners manual from beginning to end, and doing a few [literally] dry runs with the blower, took up all of my morning. Then after lunch I made a trip to HD to buy some marker poles to put on the 'outward' side of my curved driveway, so I'll still know where to plow in case we get that 2-foot whopper that Accuweather is predicting:
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I tried to get a daytime photo but the dang things were nearly invisible...!)
...and after this it was time to go to 4 o'clock Mass, followed by hauling in a 3-day supply of firewood, and finally supper. Yep, it's been a
long day, so I ought to be "sleeping like a log" tonight!