A late Good Morning to Everyone. It's been 60° and overcast for the last five hour. We are supposed to warm up to 75° later today. Got another good workout in the garden and yard yesterday, vacuumed and raked up several bushels of leaves and tidied up the remainder of the garden. The garlic that I planted last month has emerged from the ground so the 2018 gardening season has officially begun for me. Later today I hope to slice some of the surplus onions from last spring and make some pickled onions, something that I haven't made since the 90's sometime. I also spent some time splitting wood and the body expressed it's displeasure yesterday evening while I was grilling burgers.
Out in the train shed, I did some more detailing of structures that I had previously built but did not completely detail. Now that I have their placement finalized, I am adding appropriate width sidewalks, along with roof details. I downloaded a bunch of interior pictures from the Internet yesterday that I will manipulate today (maybe), to use on the interiors of some of these buildings. While looking for some Preiser statues that I finally found, I also found about three dozen painted figures that I had put up and forgotten about when I cleaned off the layout surface to lay additional track a few months back. Many are appropriate for the scene that I am detailing right now.
Here's a couple of photos of "work in process". The first is an older DPM structure, "Seymour Block", being rehabbed from a previous layout and the second is another DPM structure "Carol's Corner Cafe", that I built about three weeks ago.
Joe - Thanks for the background on the GG1's.
Chet - I am getting better at organizing the train shed, but I still have cartons of stuff that I packed up from the old train room that are partially unpacked. Problem is that I unpack and leave stuff on the layout and then pick it up later and put it somewhere else that isn't where it's supposed to be. Like you said, "...that would make sense and take the fun out of discovering something..."
That G1 picture is certainly a strange looking beast.
Terry - Maybe the receptionist needed shoes!
Garry - I knew about GE and some of their plans, but I did not know that they wanted to sell their Transportation Division. I did know that they were ceasing
new loco production in Erie and consolidating it down the road from me in Ft. Worth TX.
Ken (D&J) - Sorry to hear the news about your friend.
Everybody have a great day.
Willie