Greetings, Shop Dwellers! It's 54*F under mostly clear skies with a 9mph SSE wind at my central MD abode.
A tip o' the hat to each of you who clicked the button on my Sunday mini-post -
Jerry, Joe, Tom (Cambria), Phil, Hughie, Patrick, Jaz, Guy, TomO, Sherrell
Lots of interesting conversations and photos over the past 2 days! It took me over an hour to get thru them all and now I'm running behind on writing my own post!
Mikey - the main problem you're dealing with is, you're just
too dam good at what you do!
Sherrell - Sure does seem like those lifeguards are grossly overpaid; but aren't housing prices [and the CA cost of living in general] also
obscenely high? I've often wondered how can anybody but a Silicon Valley CEO can afford to live there...
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Didn't do any mrr stuff this afternoon, I was busy "summer-izing" the snow blower - siphoned out as much leftover gasoline as possible, and let the motor burn up what was left in the fuel line. Also had my mower picked up by my local small engine mechanic for the annual pre-season maintenance, apparently
just in the nick of time too; he says he'll have it back to me in a week. He anticipates that by COB Friday, his backlog will be 4 to 6 weeks! Still have a lot of other yard chores in front of me, including cutting up and clearing away a number of branches that got blown off our trees over the winter. Those and my mower blades don't get along terribly well.
I did, however, find time to finish the external work on my project Stewart F7 model, all that remains now is for me to put the correct horn sound in it, a Nathan M-3 like the majority of B&O F-units had. Of course when the photo of my prototype unit was shot in 1974, the M-3 had been replaced by a leftover Leslie 3-chimer. I shot a few pics of the model with my cell phone camera, but I couldn't do it on the layout because it's in such deplorable condition with too many background eyesores - so my workbench had to suffice.
First, the prototype in 1974:
http://rr-fallenflags.org/bo/bo4598goa.jpg :
...and an earlier shot from ~1963:
http://rr-fallenflags.org/bo/bo4598alb.jpg (
Notice the Nathan M-3 horn)
I didn't directly insert the proto images since I don't want to run afoul of the
rr-fallenflags.org webmaster's copyright policy.
Now, the
model:
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There actually is a piece of "glass" over that twin-beam headlight, just hard to see it at this angle!)
This was shot under normal layout lighting, so any subtle color differences are somewhat washed-out:
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Been sitting at the 'puter for too long and now my legs are starting to feel stiff, so I hafta run -
g'nite!