HAPPY NEW-... Hey, where's everybody at this morning?!
Carey, I see you've made up your first consist for the Alabama Central - nice! Correct me if I'm wrong, but I always thought those Appalachian coal hauling trains were a tad less shiny and colorful?
Josh, that's a neat plan for your Dad's layout, esp. the viaduct over the town center. Reminds me of a place near where I live - Ellicott City, Maryland - where the street and buildings are all ~25ft below the R-O-W. [Got flooded pretty bad during Hurricane Agnes in 1972.] Can't wait to see the finished product!
Rex, was the GM aware that he was being photographed? How's his
wife going to react when she sees this? Tsk tsk, he should'a given the guys more than chickens for Christmas....!
Jeff, your track plan is looking good, I see there are quite a few lineside industries - should offer plenty of operation scenarios!
David, I still have to pave a number of roads on my pike as well. I'll have to do some serious brain-pickin' with Johnny to see how he does
his...
As for photos of my own, I'm with Chris in that I have nothing completed to post. I've already shared about the clearance debacle in my Iron Belt progress thread. At the moment, pieces of my mothballed blast furnace are spread around the train room while I try to remember
what connects to
where --- when you haven't looked at something for 3 years, it can be pretty confusing. Originally I wanted to get more done on the rest of the layout before tackling the blast furnace, but worrying about trying to rebuild it ---
and make it all fit --- was dampening my enthusiasm for working on the layout at all, so I decided I'd confront it head-on.
See you all later!
