Good afternoon fellow Rail benders, Tie placers and Spike drivers,
Hi Flo & Francine, I looks like you have a good group here at Jeffreys' Dinner this afternoon. I think I just have some coffee and a Apple Fritter with Cinnamon and Honey. Good for what ails you!
Per Wunderground Weather:
Partly Cloudy at 55.0 °F - Feels Like 55.0 °F;
Wind is at 2.9 from South with Gusts to 4.9 mph,
Pressure 29.55 in
Visibility 10.0 miles
Clouds Scattered Clouds 4000 ft., Mostly Cloudy 5500 ft,
Dew Point 45 °F
Humidity 69%
Rainfall 0.07 in
Snow Depth Not available.
As far as rain fall for the last couple of days I measured 1.82 inches, giving me a total for the season of 23.84 inches. I'm not sure what the snow pack is in the Higher Sierra's but I think we are starting to get close to normal?
Good morning y'all. Presently 22° and sunny, going up to 60° this afternoon.
David: In most cases, they would simply run around the train re couple on the opposite end and go about their business, without re-shifting the train. By Markers, I mean what ever the local practice is for designating the rear of the train. At night one or two red lamps to the rear, by day, it could be a red disk or red flag. Each railroad had their own practice.
David: It defies logic, but on tangent track, even with spikes pulled and splice bars removed, empty cars at slow speed may remain on the rail. As long as the rail remains in place...During the Penn Central era, when you could pull spikes with your bare hand, it was amazing when you didn't have a derailment.
Next week is shaping up to be a busy one, The truck needs to go in for an oil change and a recall, the wife has to deal with MIL stuff, and I need to get my self an appointment with an orthopedic guy over my shoulder, and arm.
Joe: That's interesting and makes sense that the loco would just be run around the coaches and re-coupled onto the trailing car for the return trip. It's also interesting that lights were generally only used at night and flags or disks were used during the day. I think I have see large Red Disks on the back of a coach but wasn't familiar with what I was seeing/looking at!
Also I hope your able to get your shoulder situation corrected. Mine was just a pinched nerve I guess as after the second adjustment at the Chiropractor it went away slowly and my Left shoulder has been feeling very good since.
That's also interesting about the rail cars, I guess as long as the rail tends to stay in place on short sections the weight of the cars just set the rails down in their usual positions. I've noticed that even on my layout
where I have a couple of rails just laid on top of the central valley tie strips, which do have molded in tie plates, but the rail aren't even spiked down at all that I can run even a smaller loco on them without it derailing too.
Good Morning Gang. 56° and overcast skies this morning. Looks like I'll get a few hours in the garden today, time to plant the next round of radishes (a little at a time so they harvest a little at a time), and plant a few beets. Skipping carrots this year, peas and spinach that I planted last week are peeking through the ground after the rain Tuesday. Lettuce will probably be today. Still too soon for warm season veggies like green beans, squash , tomatoes and peppers.
Trainwise, I continued on landscaping projects for most of yesterday. But I couldn't resist pulling another laser-cut kit off the shelf and "imagineering". More on that tomorrow.
David - While I know what Wicked Wanda's was intended to be, and I have seen many fine representations of that, I am using mine as a simple boarding house as I already had enough "bawdy" houses on the layout.
Everybody have a great weekend.
Willie
Willie: Using Wanda's place as a boarding house is an interesting take too! I thought I'd forewarn you that a good friend and very good modeler Brian F., long since departed. built Tylick Tool, only to find out the space between the buildings meant for a Box car to go between was too tight. So if you have that kit be cautious about the space between the buildings when you build it, the area evidently needs to be opened up wider?
Have a good day all.
