WOAH!
Bama must have built that?
Bama must have built that?
Greg, I am curious how these decals work. Do you simply purchase the special paper and run them through a regular printer?
Good Morning All. 56° and raining and a lot of high winds. At 4:30 it was 64° and then the thunderstorm moved in. We're under a severe thunderstorm warning right now, however it appears that the major action has moved east of me already, although one can never tell with these March storms. Watch out Johnny, looks like it will hit you around 10:00. So far the rain gauge has .75" in it for the first hour. This will all be over before noon and the temperature will top out at 75° with humidity!
After some good-natured kidding the past two days, my wife did our taxes yesterday during a lull in her H&R Block workload. WOW! We're getting the biggest refund ever, $1600, due to her over-withholding last spring. I always aimed for zero or a minimal refund because I don't want the government using my money interest-free all year. Most of the last thirty years, the refund was less than $25, and one year was 40¢. Our overall tax liability went down considerably last year, due to the new exemption amounts and overall brackets. In my case, it looks like Nancy P. was wrong.
Thanks for the comments and likes from yesterdays layout pictures, Joe, Tom, Dave, Garry, Chet, Curt and anyone else that I may have missed.
Another day in the train shed with minimal scenery results. I did add some details to the backyard, but it is taking some time to hang those clothes on the clothesline like Chet did in post #361 on Monday. As he posted, "It was a pain in the butt project", but I did get the first pair of pants up finally.
Moving on to a "waiting for further scenery" part of the layout, here is a small non-rail served grain and seed dealer. The base model is a cheapo freight house model called Williamsburg Freight House by AM Models. To the left is an outhouse , still common in rural Texas in the 70's and early 80's which covers part of my era.
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Here is a background low-relief structure made from DPM modular walls, that's also a feed, seed and fertilizer dealer with incoming rail shipments.
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Sorry about the angle here. Yes, that broken drainpipe by the left door is intentional. Note the water-stained brick below the break.
And I have trains too! Here is a triple-headed lash-up of GP40X's, an experimental diesel from EMD. ATSF had 10 of the 23 produced.
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Johnny - Did you see Mike's answer regarding the PM's, now called "Conversations"?
Mark - Always glad to see the pictures of the snow, someplace else! If I recall correctly, you have to first post movies on You Tube and then link them. I have never joined YT which is why none of my movies have ever been posted. There may be another way, but I am not aware of it.
Dave - That backside view is very good. Were you able to save those structures?
Chet - Now that looks like a train!
On a good note, the thunderstorm warning has been cancelled and there is now .9" in the gauge. The high wind advisory is still in effect.
Everybody have a great day.
Louis: I used to accompany my father to a "Billiards Parlour" owned by a fanatic Philly "A's" follower. He had a poster sized autographed photo, of Lefty grove framed and hanging on the wall along with other A's memorabilia. His baseball stuff would keep me occupied while dad shot pool.
I have long been of the opinion, that the wrong team left Philadelphia, and I still feel that way.
Does anyone here have any experience with Tichy car kits?
I want to get a few of their ore cars and pulpwood flats.
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Do they come with trucks, couplers?
If they do - are they any good?
I painted the one on the right. The one on the left came from either a Woodland Scenics setWillie: On the Plains Grain, did you paint either-of the guys ? Very good detail !
Louis: My pleasure.Thanks for sharing that with me.
Any of you - with/without - companions are welcome to get out of the "brown" as Tom calls it!Sherrel: No fair showing myself, Chet and Mark and others the photographs of warm, beautiful weather when we suffer in the cold and damp late winter weather.
Later...Greg
Sherrel: In spite of comments to the contrary, your photos prove that Cali is a nice place to live. Tichy kits are quite nice, I have a wreck derrick to build, that's a dead ringer for the West Philly Wreck Train derrick. One of the model railroading forums has a couple of build threads from a couple of years ago, I just don't remember which one. Tichy's "War Emergency" gonds, might be perfect for Panel Rail cars. Boris
Believe it or not, that's where the "golden state" slogan comes from, when everything turns golden brown. NOT when you dig the metal out of the ground, or the local authorities remove as much of your gold as possible at tax-time.When we hit the dry season all thos pretty hills will be brown as well!
I think you need a mini scene with a couple derailed cars in the ditch and the derrick doing it's thing. Don't see things like that on most model layouts.