Good morning everyone.
Chris, nice pictures. It's good to see a smiling face, even if it's yours!
Steve, welcome to the coffee shop. Lots of b.s. in here and a little train talk. Not a bad combination if you ask me!
I spent the day at the fertility clinic with my wife yesterday. Who did we see first? The business office of course. A check of $8500 should get us started!
That's roughly half of what this will run me. I guess you could say that my train budget just went in the negative. The good part is hopefully we can have a little engineer running around because of it. I have my fingers crossed.
A little update on our damaged trestle: They are "tearing the trestle down", according to the newspaper. They then said they will keep the bridge deck and hopefully replace the piers next year. The headline made it sound like they were tearing down the whole thing. The story sounds more like they will try to rebuild it. We'll see which one they do. When I first read it I almost teared up. It's a good thing I built my scale model of it before it is changed.
Though the train spending is cut off, I have plenty to do. I have a back stock of projects that have already been purchased. Knowing this was coming, I snuck in a few purchases earlier this year before I was even ready to complete them. Nothing like knowing you're going to be broke ahead of time!
The boss is still gone so I had better get back to work.
Have a great day everyone!