Good Morning All. Partly cloudy and 44° right now. Temperature is finally going to move today, upper 60's predicted. It's been stuck between 42° and 46° for the last 48 hours! It will however, be cloudy for the next four days with moderate thunderstorms Sunday. I ended up with .25" of rainfall yesterday despite it misting/drizzling for over twelve hours.
Time once again for the weekly grocery/beer trek to Denton. If it wasn't for fresh fruits and vegetables, as well as eggs, I really don't need to go. There's easily a three week supply of beer available and the freezer is packed with meat.
Hey there Flo. I'll take chicken fried steak with southern cream gravy, biscuits and grits this morning. Make it a double OJ as well.
Thanks as always or the many likes and comments regarding yesterday's postings;
Justin, Chad, Karl, Jerome, Guy, Patrick, Joe, Tom O, Sherrel, Dave, Hughie, Phil, Tom, Curt, Garry, Ken, Jerry.
I was only out in the train shed briefly yesterday, since it was drizzling all day, my decided that it would be a good time to move all of the living room furniture so she could clean the floor. I didn't work on any projects, just ran trains.
So it's back to the archives or something so Guy doesn't have withdrawal from my pictures. I'm temporarily out of girlie pictures so let's look at
a project that I did from May through July 2018.
This is when I constructed downtown Maultown on a peninsula jutting off the upper deck. It started simply enough with the placement of some completed structures in position.
Ground cover was added.
Another structure was added with figures.
To be continued.
Jesse - If Sole Man Shoes is a big industry in your town, you might consider a tannery to supply leather. On most railroads, cowhides moved in the oldest most beat up boxcars available.
That new track plan looks like it could keep an engineer busy.
Guy -
Seems weird to me that a flat-car from so far away found it's way up here in the northwest. It also seems so complicated to keep track of these railcars all over the continent; that I don't even want to know how it's done
I'm going to tell you anyway!
Nowadays, there's a transponder tag on every engine, freight car and caboose if used. It's known as
AEI recognition system. Beats the heck out of the old way with a building full of clerks with ledger sheets and teletype machines!
I am not sure how it actually works today, but in years past there was a
per diem fee that railroads charged each other for cars on foreign roads. I believe that the transponder on the flat car is just above the LH wheel in your last picture, and just barely in the LH frame (on the mineral red car) in your first picture. There's 1,000's of readers across the US and I am assuming the Dominion as well.
Everyone have a great day. Stay safe.
