Good Morning All. Clear skies and 31° to start the day. Mid-50's to low 60's for the next ten days except for Wednesday with low 40's and rain. Picked up my first ever pair of eyeglasses yesterday, wearing them is an interesting experience. They do help and wife says that it will take a week or so to get used to them.
Morning Flo. A double order of bacon and french toast this morning, skip the eggs.
Thanks for the likes and comments regarding the layout pictures yesterday;
Bob, Tom, Karl, Sherrel, Phil, Jerome, Bill, Chet, Justin, Mikey, Jim.
Working my way around the corner with the quarterly layout cleanup project. What better time to give a brief tour of parts that I haven't been posting, as someone requested last year. So here it is.
Separating the staging yard from the scenicked portion is a highway overpass made from Rix components.
We first come to the hamlet of Budville, named after a late friend. The near tracks are Frisco (SLSF) tracks leading to the interchange; the far tracks are the ATSF tracks. This part of the layout is unfinished for now,
Pay no attention to that stack of lumber temporarily stored on brachets above the layout.
Lone Star Feed & Fertilizer is the first industry. Along with the grain elevator to the left, they ship out both bulk grains in covered hoppers, and bagged grain in boxcars. They also receive bagged grain in boxcars.
Next over to the left is the infamous Majestic Hardware and Feed store, It is non-rail served. This is a tentative location while I decide whether to keep it here.
That phone jack is for my walk-around memory throttle.
Next over to the left is Midtown Consolidators. More on that tomorrow.
Terry - How is Marie doing? Has she recovered from the infection? Has she been doing the PT for the knee? That's an important part of recovery no matter how much discomfort it gives.
Tom - I fully agree that getting rid of the plastic shine on railcars really enhances the effect. Although I haven't weathered all that I want to, I have hit everyone with the Dull Coat.
Sherrel -
Willie -- I'll take that pair of CF-7's on the back wall -- that will free up a siding for you?
Good eye there spotting the CF7's. However they are my primary switching power for many industries.
I thought of you last night while dining at Pelligrino's. Wife told me the Green Bay score and I thought that you probably would have rather been with us instead of home with the TV.
Concrete rivers duh! Only in CA.
Greg - I also like watching those cab ride videos. However the effect is ruined in many of them by modelers that don't finish the back sides of structures. I may not detail all of them, however I do finish them.
Mikey - Life has not been hard on me. Aging body has!
I'm still here and enjoying life more than ever. Compared to that scene, I have aged better than my wife...BIL is still the same skinny punk as he was 50 years ago.
Everybody have a great day.