Good Morning All. Clear and 78°, no rain in sight today. Closest it comes is up near
Patrick in northern OK and southern KS. Misted and drizzled most of the morning yesterday, skies never cleared later on.
Short and sweet this morning, as I have a dermatologist follow-up at 0845, prior to the weekly grocery/beer trek.
Light breakfast this morning Flo, just a bear claw and OJ for me.
Thanks for the likes and comments yesterday;
Mopac, Patrick, Guy, Karl, Sherrel, Tom O, Phil, James, Bunker, Jerome, Curt, Garry, Justin, Tom.
Finished up that local switching run yesterday, dropping off those two loads at the beverage supply company.
First, pulling the two empties out.
Whoops! Didn't get a shot of the loaded cars in place.
Then over to the grain elevator to gather up the three loaded covered hoppers.
In go the empties.
Then the runaround and reassemble the train. Crew moves to the other engine for the return trip.
Before leaving town, they wait on the siding for a northbound intermodal to pass.
After this sequence, I removed the "nameless" grain elevator to
finally add signs to it.
Before.
After.
The Red River Valley and the Feed & Seed decals were extremely old and the first RRV one literally dissolved in the water. I sprayed the second set with dull coat, something I read about here, let them dry and that worked as you can see. First time that I have tried that. Looks like a keeper. I also added the lightning rods to the roof.
Seem to be out of that modeling funk yesterday. Meanwhile I also cleaned up the layout room a bit.
Sherrel - Congratulations to your daughter.
Curt - Good luck with the grandsons.
Bunker - Too bad about having to remove that wonderful Santa Fe paint scheme from the GP9.
Garry - Cataract surgery is on hold while I wait for my wife to decide what she's going to do about her knee. Doctor is supposedly the best in the area, but most patients (and the optometrist's staff as well) complain about his office staff being rude!
Steven - Happy Birthday.
Joe - Thanks.
Terry/Sherrel - Thanks.
In keeping with the food celebrations, today is National Cheesecake Day and National Chili Dog Day. Enjoy both although not necessarily in that order!
Everybody have a great day.