Good Morning All. Clear and 55° as the nights remain rather cool. Started the process of covering up the pool for winter yesterday. Removed the ladder and cleared the remaining leaves that fell earlier in the week. Chemicals are right. I unfolded and inspected the cover and it appears to be OK.
Today, we have an 8:30 visit to the hospital for the revision specialist to gather new cultures and fluid draws in an effort to see if they can find out what the offending bacteria is that is causing the infection in my wife's knee. Once identified, they can target it with the right antibiotics when they remove the implant next Friday. Otherwise they have to use a cocktail of antibiotics which is much harder on the system. When the titanium implant is removed, plastic spacers impregnated with the antibiotics will be inserted to prevent the muscles from contracting. After an undefined time period for the infection to clear, they'll go back with the replacement titanium implant. One of the issues is that because the blood vessels and nerves were cut in the original procedure, there's no way that normal antibiotic distribution can occur. Today's procedure will last about 4 hours from hospital check-in until the anesthesia wears off. I haven't decided whether I will hang around or go home and be productive during that time.
Thanks for the comments and likes regarding the rail shots yesterday;
Christian, Steve J, Sherrel, Patrick, Tom O, Garry, Hughie, James, Karl, Tom, Joe, Greg, Gary.
No breakfast for me this morning Flo, just a glass of OJ.
Yesterday out in the train shed, I mostly ran trains since I haven't done enough of that lately. I trimmed up a Preiser figure that wasn't needed in it's original pose, which was a hotel maid.Compare the one on the left with the one on the right.
Still need to touch up the hair and the dress a little, but I am satisfied with the initial results.
I did paint a few more as well.
Another small scene on the layout.
And the side of the crossing next to it.
Greg -
Willie: ...How long is your mainline and how do you turn the trains on the individual decks? Does the mainline form a large circle?
There are actually two main lines, one on each deck. They're not yet connected so I essentially just run two separate layouts. The upper one is about 170' and does form a loop. The lower one is about 155' and is point to point. I have turnouts in place to install a helix if I have time in my lifetime to do so. I do not need to turn trains, as everything that I run is double-headed diesel lash-ups. Like the prototype, I just unhook and run-around to the other end. The train length is determined by the length of the passing sidings, which are all 22-25 cars in length, as are 22 of the 26 staging tracks in three different staging yards.
Tom O -
However, banks would have to go along.
Like that's going to happen.
Everybody have a great Friday.
