Good "Good Friday" Morning All. Clear skies and 50° with continuing stiff north winds in the 18-25 mph range. Should help dry things out a bit. Might be able to mow some high ground later today. Today was always a paid holiday when I worked, and most blue-collar workplaces around here observe it.
As you know Flo, I don't do coffee but I will take an OJ with a couple of waffles.
It was good to get back into the routine of grocery/beer shopping on Thursday morning, it is the least crowded time at the grocery that I go to. Never have to wait in line to check-out and there are usually enough young moms to keep the trip through the store interesting. Just too bad that it is a 55 mile round trip, but I wouldn't trade the place where I live for anything closer.
And now here's a list that means something. Thanks for the comments and likes for yesterday's posting,
Patrick,
Chet,
Phil,
Justin,
Curt,
Tom, and
David.
Out in the train shed yesterday, I worked on several projects, moving from one to another while waiting for paint or glue to dry. Added some more weeds, ground foam and trees to my current scenery project area, made a couple more trees while everything is out, painted some more figures and continued with the quarterly layout tidying up. While I was admiring my previous small town project, I realized that I never posted pictures of a small house that I had located on a small area behind the "Bruckner Woodworking" structure. The house and some of the details came from an older DPM Gold kit known as "Emery Lane". The kit has two houses and I used the other one elsewhere. Picket fence is the old standby Atlas fence and figures (lady and dogs) are hand-painted from Preiser.
Adding the laundry to the clothesline was a real bear, as
Chet posted a few weeks ago. They are white metal castings.
Chuck - Your models are looking real good.
Patrick - Running trains that close to the layout edge has always scared me. I always extend the layout fascia about an inch above any track within three inches from the edge. Mostly though, I run track through the layout and have an area of scenery between track and edge. I do realize that space limitations may preclude this which makes a guardrail cheap insurance against floor models.
Chet - Plywood is slowly disappearing, but I am not rushing anything. The realist in me says that it will still be about 2 1/2 - 3 years before everything is near completion. If I could disconnect the throttle, it could be sooner!
Sherrel - Absolutely loved the X-acto display. Been lucky myself so far!
Curt - Regarding the red dot; I have seen paint splotches on the sides of prototype rails before and did not know what they were there for, with one exception. The exception which was confirmed by a brakeman to me one time, was two white spots painted on a rail away from the unloading door to a customer. Since there wasn't room for a man between the boxcar and building, they painted the spots so they knew where the door was and could direct the engineer to spot the boxcar safely from the clear side, without guessing. I have seen red, blue and yellow at other locations (not door markers), but have no clue why they are there. Some may be maintenance markings.
Everybody have a great day.