Not this year! Here in Central Illinois, there are some corn fields that will not produce anything, not even weeds. It's extremely dry and we've had very high temps with too many days over 100 degrees. The highest I've seen on our "weather station" has been 107 in the shade and humidity levels in the mid thirty to mid forty percent range.SoCal wants to be the midwest! Yesterday it was in the 90s most of the day and then we got rain for most of the evening. Reminded me of my days in Chicago.
Jeffrey, your new york central paint jobs on the F-units looks awesome!Good morning. It's 71°, wet and load here. The high will be 81° and there's a major chance of showers and thunderstorms.
I didn't paint those. They came to me like that. I don't think Bachmann carries them anymore. Since the photos were taken I've put a black line through the 'New York Central' logos on both units in preparation for patching.Jeffrey, your new york central paint jobs on the F-units looks awesome!
Mike
Never had one of those but I did at one point have a Tyco 2-8-0 Royal Blue. It was tender drive. It had a horrible little pancake motor that screamed like a banshee. I took the body off the tender and chucked the drive. The drive was replaced with the drive from a small switcher. I got rid of that one many years ago. Last year I came into possession of another tender drive steamer, a Pemco 2-6-0 Southern Mogul. It has the original pancake drive (much bigger and robust than the Tyco trash) and runs very well.
Free tip of the day!! Now some of us "serious" types may admit to it, but I'll be a good many of us have either owned or still do own a Tyco Chattanooga steam engine.
They and the sheriff's dept called me. They agree with the steps I'm taking and said to call if I need help. I've located an emergency supply of Lantus insulin and I'm going to check it out now. If it's not too old I'll be able to use it.Jeffrey
Call 911 for help!!