Good Morning All. 42° and mostly cloudy, expecting it to reach 70° later today. Another cold front around sunset will drop temperatures to 23° by tomorrow night, back into the 60's by Tuesday. I'm ready for this cold weather to be over, we were spoiled in both 2016 and 2017 when we didn't drop below freezing after February 1. I am getting a bit tired of trying to catch up on all of my outdoor projects that were neglected over the last 15 years or so. I need more rainy weather so that I can stay inside the train shed more! LOL
Speaking of being out in the train shed, I added more roadbed to the new benchwork, using HO scale for the main line and N scale for the passing siding.
That mid-way jog in the main is an optical illusion I think, if it really is a jog, it's no problem to lay the track straight and disguise the jog with roadbed shaving and ballast later on. I don't angst over minor stuff like that and won't rip anything out. I did freak out because it looked like I miscalculated on the HO roadbed and I was going to be 10" short of having enough! But later I found a 22" piece that was on the layout behind a freight parked at the far end of that picture. Of course another trip to the LHS wouldn't have been a bad deal anyway. Now it's time to round up all of those pieces of flex track that are wherever I left them last. I put a few more miles on the new SD40-2's yesterday. Gosh! This never gets old, does it!
Sherrel - My prayers and best wishes continue for your wife's health. I have trust in the doctors that you us, if they can fix you, they can fix her. Most sciatica (if that's the eventual diagnosis) can be relieved without surgery.
Jesse - Wasn't meaning to knock N scale. I have seen it come a very long way since the early 70's and it is a real boon to those who don't have the space for any of the larger scales.
I have many unnamed structures still. Running trains is more important to me than having a name for everything right now. Eventually though!
Curt - Fine job there on the switch tower. I especially like the interior view.
Jesse - Congratulations on your new celebrity status.
Sam - Welcome to the Coffee Shop. No need to read every post from the beginning, just slip in and enjoy. We'll open a new place at the end of every 100 pages or so.
Garry - I occasionally run across stuff that I don't remember buying, but I can tell where I got it by looking at the design of the price sticker. I certainly don't remember specifics regarding each and every one of my 800 freight cars, gong back over 35 years! Damn! Has it been that long??? I actually do have all of the specific information in my database though.
All right now. I'm going to spend a few minutes watching Stuart Varney on Fox Business Network, to see him freak over the stock market! I have to admit that I freaked out and got out of the market earlier this week and cut my losses. I'm back to mid-January levels, thankfully, after having wiped two weeks of gains.
Everybody have a great day.
Willie
The differences are very obvious, aren't they?
