Good Morning All. 36° and clear. Happy St. Patrick's Day to all, whether Irish or not. A bit late this morning as I didn't get home until midnight. While I was at my daughter's house yesterday afternoon for the pre-41st birthday celebration, a couple of her old high school classmates came by. It reminded me that hers was the largest graduating class for her school at the time, 31 students. By comparison, three years later when my second daughter graduated, there were 13 in her class and later there were 16 in my son's class. Ended the evening at my best man's home to celebrate his wife's 65th birthday along with several of
my high school and college classmates.
Thanks for the positive comments and likes on yesterday's scenes,
Joe,
Phil,
Dave,
Tom,
Sherrel,
Chet,
Jim,
Curt,
David,
Garry, and anyone else who I may have missed.
No time for trains yesterday, some days are just like that.
Greg -
Bruette: Excellent choice....Chicago....I seen them in concert in the late 60's or very early 70's just after they changed their name to Chicago from CTA.
That's the second time that I saw them as well. Quite an exhilarating concert at the time. First time they were still CTA and every song was fifteen minutes long.
Joe - Thanks for the wreck train information. Are the cars blocked in any particular order? I know very little regarding them specifically and have just collected cars and strung them together.
For operations, I just move it from one end of the layout to the other and park it on various sidings along the way for a few sessions and work around it. Then it moves one or two towns further along the way to park again. After seeing
Terry's train, I realize that a hopper of ballast would probably be appropriate as well.
Tom - DC is not operations friendly with groups. As a lone operator, it works just great for me though. While the ability to operate two trains at once is there, I can only pay attention to one at a time anyway since I primarily do switching.
Mark -
"As Confusion will be my Epitaph"!
I like it! Came from King Crimson's first album in 1969, track three "
Epitaph", Greg Lake (later of Emerson Lake & Palmer) on haunting vocals. Mellotron was played by Ian McDonald, later a founder of the band Foreigner.
OK, time to move on. Got to get the corned beef into the slow cooker before going to church.
Everybody have a great day.