Good Morning All. Clear and 73°. Weatherman has lowered the chance of rain for us below to 20% for the next few days. Laura seems to be heading just a little further east than yesterday. We honestly need some rain for grass fire prevention.
Once again, thanks to everyone for the well wishes and kind words for my wife's recovery. We both have noticed what seems to be a shorter time to get to certain "control points", which is encouraging.
Loads of bacon and a pair of over easy eggs, along with a toaster English Muffin to go along with my OJ this morning Francine.
Thanks to all who commented and reacted to the museum post yesterday;
Dave, Chet, Guy, Karl, Sherrel, Jerome, Chad, James, Joe, Patrick, Curt, Tom.
Increased household chores and convalescent care are still limiting my time in the train shed, but the long term outlook is worth it. Just did some odds and ends with the warehouse/tenement/piggyback ramp scene yesterday.
I am searching for my stash of industrial outdoor light fixtures to complete this warehouse. They're on the workbench underneath something.
Started the asphalt parking area between the tenement housing and the main line.
Assembled a couple more sections of Bar Mills InstaFence to add between the asphalt lot and the ROW, once I add the ground foam there first.
On the other side of the tracks, I added parking stripes to the trailer pad.
The picture doesn't show them too well. Those layout assembly screws will be covered with manhole covers soon.
The stripes themselves are made from chart tape, used on whiteboards and other presentations.
This is 1/16" wide which I think scales out to about 5.5". It doesn't stick too well to the bare painted plywood, so after applying, I brush paint a thick coat of Testor's dull coat which seals and makes it adhere much better.
Then I threw some tires into a corner for effect.
Patrick - Hoping that everything is OK with your wife. Thoughts and prayers coming her way.
Chet - I thought that the caboose interior was pretty neat. While sparse, it looked accommodating.
Joe - Yeah! I was looking at the later trajectory of Laura and realized that we're sending it your way. Some outer bands of precipitation are already headed into NE Texas, but so far they are quite light and distant.
National Dog Day is today. Give them a special treat from me.
Everybody have a great day.
Dodging all of that, just for a dozen apple cider donuts and a half dozen Jersey Peaches and some fresh Jersey Produce. It certainly wasn't worth it (except for the donuts).
Tell 'em to Ship it on the Frisco!
. I think I have a workable plan but it won't be a reversing loop. That leaves me one on the layout's right side and the TT. I need to do more thinking on it.
It was a good runner and dependable. It never left me on the side of the road. It's just that their scheduled maintenance was sooooo expensive! I wrote a couple of four figure checks at 100,000 and 200,000 miles, and the first number wasn't 1! Then there was that blasted timing belt that had to be changed out every 60,000 miles! I kept it for about 10 years, and had to let it go when the air conditioning system went kaput. The cost for that repair exceeded the car's worth. These days there's so much plastic in them that buying a used one is not something I'd recommend.
After seeing how extensive BMW scheduled maintenance was, I bought a service manual and did all the work myself. I was an industrial mechanic and a much younger man when I owned my BMW. I could not keep up with it all now.
