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Went down to the shed this afternoon and it looks like the LPP have made a start on the embankments for the new bridge to cross the valley and ease peak hour congestion.
Some final survey and inspection to check the new point that they sem to have installed.
Looks like the heavy weight loco is out to do some track and gradient inspection
On the other side I "blasted" through the hillside to complete he route
Here is a YouTube video of a local train switching the cement plant on my club layout. Click the link "Watch in High Quality" if it is available under the video window.
It seems the spinster sisters that live at home with their parents on the farm at the top of the hill have a thriving business going. They are producing the family "Recipe" that has been passed down in the family for generations (or at least the beginning of prohibition). It is known to cure coughs, colds, fevers, snake bite, and rheumatism. Not to mention dermatitis and stomach problems. I am posting a few pictures of the "factory" which distills, er..... produces the elixir. Must be good stuff, officer Obbie appears to be a steady customer.
Thought I would show a few photos of the new area I am scenicing before it becomes "hidden" in the forest......... The still sits at the top of the falls by the side of the gorge just below the farm.
Steve, I kind of thought they were train numbers but that's a really UK kind of thing. About the only locomotives that displayed train numbers here were passenger trains, like Trains 1 and 2 for the Santa Fe Super Chiefs. Freight trains were almost always identified by the number of the lead engine so an eastbound led by engine number 2410 would be identified as EB 2410 by dispatchers. There were names for some of the fast freights. like Cotton Belt's Blue Streak Merchandise, but the train was still identified by the number of the lead engine. That's why you see the engine number in so many places on US engines.
John, nice pictures as usual. Looks like you're planning a pretty stiff grade. What are your ideas for that second bridge?
Ray, rumor is a few folks have medicinal operations like yours back in the woods here. It's for snake bite, they tell me. You ought to make a little path up the hillside (maybe even a few stairs) to the still to draw people's eye up there so the little scene doesn't go unnoticed.
Matt, that is a heck of a big cement plant. How many of those covered hoppers are yours? There's sure a bunch of them. Nice video.
The cake was delicious, the local construction company was on hand to assist with the distribution:
Yes, there was a train running arround the cake:
The PRR GP-30 we bought on a railfan trip to PA, the Galveston Wharves reminds me of home, the NS boxcar is for us, here in NC along the former NS mainline, and the WC caboose if for her, she grew up in WI, along the WC tracks. My buddies at the club whipped up the Just Married sign on the spot...
Here's a close-up of the sign:
We'll have better pictures later, these are just from a friend's digi-cam. I'm a lucky man to have a woman who enjoys my hobby as much as she does...
3821 will be a 2 stacker. I have plans to do a rebuilt GP38AC into a 38-3 like the one that's been hanging around here for the past month, a four-stacker
V&AL, a military wedding combined with a train running around the cake - pretty cool. Congratualtions to you and your bride and many happy years for you both.
Dave, nice detail work on that conversion. I'm sure I'd have the courage to take a closeup of some of the plastic surgery I've done.
Smoke, that's an interesting fantasy unit. I never much cared for those high hood GP-30's but your slug should look good when it's done.
Jeffrey, that MOW supervisor's observation car always cracks me up when I see it. I wonder how many of the real guys would have killed for something that nice.
Jeffrey, that MOW supervisor's observation car always cracks me up when I see it. I wonder how many of the real guys would have killed for something that nice.
3821 will be a 2 stacker. I have plans to do a rebuilt GP38AC into a 38-3 like the one that's been hanging around here for the past month, a four-stacker
You ought to make a little path up the hillside (maybe even a few stairs) to the still to draw people's eye up there so the little scene doesn't go unnoticed.
