Good Morning All. A sweltering 82° with partly cloudy skies to begin September with. Crazy as it seems, that is supposed to be the high temperature for today, with 100% chance of thundershowers and predictions of 2" of rain total. That will put a damper on outdoor activity today.
Scrambled eggs and a pile of sausage patties for me this morning Flo.
Thanks for the reactions and comments on my progress yesterday;
Troy, Lee, Karl, Chad, Patrick, James, Garry, Sherrel, Tom O, Phil, Curt, Tom, Louis, Ken, Rick, Joe. And thanks also for the well wishes for my wife who is recovering nicely.
Well, what happened in the train shed yesterday? Not really much. I did finish painting the driver for the yard mule for the piggyback facility and added some figures to the scene.
The figures (except the driver) came from a Walther's Scenemaster set of pre-painted figures, appropriately enough called Trans-Load Crew, no longer available from them. The set has eight figures, many of which I will be using in a true Trans-Load (non piggyback) scene elsewhere.
I did also do some tune-up on a very old Con-Cor covered hopper that has been staring at me for over a year on the RIP track above the workbench. I just got tired of looking at it! It had been derailing at random places. Couldn't find anything wrong with it, so I reversed both trucks and added an additional penny of weight inside over each truck and that seemed to fix it. Weight was actually OK to begin with, but only two pennies still kept it within 5% of NMRA recommendations.
Chet/Greg - The Spanish that the Mexicans speak (and me as well) is not true Spanish. The academics here refer to it as "sloppy" Spanish. I consider it to be "Tex-Mex" Spanish. I never took Spanish in school, taking Latin, French and German instead.
Greg - Belated Happy Birthday to your wife.
Regarding Walmart, I rarely go into that place, even though watching the people can be quite amusing. Maybe three times a year. I just don't like the place. I don't mind paying a little more for stuff at a local business where the atmosphere is a little more inviting. My wife doesn't mind, so I don't normally have to go.
Tom O - Interesting photo yesterday of the hoppers. Kinda looks like more than just the sky was photo-shopped in. If not, you did a fabulous job on the structure detailing and the transformer weathering.
Chet - Too bad about the pandemic guidelines that you are having to follow. It just seems to me that bowling (and golf, neither of which I do), would be an easy sport to socially distance from others. People and politicians need to use a little more common sense.
Everybody have a great day.