Good Morning All. Cloudy and a chilly 25°, won't get back above freezing until Wednesday around noon if the weather persons are to be believed. Light freezing rain between now and then, and then showers from that point until sunset Thursday. If the radar is accurate, there's a small pocket of freezing rain about 60 miles south of here in north Ft Worth, just west of the big airport. I'll stay hunkered down indoors.
NFC game between Philly and Frisco must not have been too interesting, my wife bailed early in the 3rd quarter for Sex in the City! AFC game must have been better since she was irritated to have to pause it in order to
help me make sure that I made the bed correctly after washing the linens. She's the sports fanatic in our house.
Since yesterday looked like the last travel day for us for a while, we went out to eat at a Mexican food place in Denton. I had a Carne Asada Y Enchilada while my wife had a three-enchilada plate. Delicious. We came home to many flashing red lights up our private road in front of the neighbors house. My first thought was that the sheriffs deputies were there to pick up our crazy ex-con neighbor again, but upon closer observation, I spotted a cherry picker up in the air with someone repairing an electrical problem. It was either a blown transformer or someone hit and knocked down a pole. Either way, the three neighbors up the hill were without power for a while, and they all use electric heat. While the disconnect for that line is in front of my house, it is past my incoming line. Not that it mattered as we would still have had heat. Quite a response for 8:30 on a Sunday night in sub-freezing weather out in the middle of nowhere. There were at least 5 trucks there with all of the accompanying red flashing lights.
Yesterday was Sunday once again out in the train shed. Limited time always due to church in the morning delaying the rest of the day. I cleaned a few more structures.
Vivian's Shoe Store, from Smalltown USA, and an unidentified structure made from DPM modular walls I think.
The picture of the next structure is blurred so it will remain a mystery for now.
I devoted the rest of my time out there working with Pikestuff wall panels and roof pieces to start some of the main buildings for the Ethanol refinery. I started on the end with the fermentation tanks and the adjoining structure that needs to butt up against the tank building.
I have no real clue what should be inside this building, but it looks appropriate. More like it will be added to the left, eventually culminating in a long (240 scale feet) covered shed for unloading grain, four hoppers at a time..
Tom O - Neighbors helping neighbors. What a great concept to read about. Of course, snowblowers are foreign to us here!
Karl -
Today my DCC guru was here to evaluate track plans and he kinda upset the apple cart. Not so much DCC wise of even track wise, but where I was planning yards and industries for operation. he made some very valid points to consider. We also came up with ideas to improve staging. Lots to think and rethink about.
I guess that's the track plan that we haven't seen??? Or have we and I was asleep?
Sherrel - Great picture of SLSF 475. I saw a lot of Frisco locos from '72-'81 as they went past where I worked, but never saw one that clean! A lot of what I saw were GP38-2's, as they were perfectly suited to the flatlands between Dallas and Tulsa. It was a real shame when they all started being painted green & white beginning in '82 or so. Makes me sad that affordable digital cameras didn't come along for another 20 years. That rail line saw 10-12 trains a day during my working hours, all of the way until my retirement.
Gotta go now and load the heater. y'all have a great day.
