Good Morning Everyone. 39° and clear. Still not dry outside from the rain earlier in the week, but getting close. The raised bed garden is just about workable; important because it's time to start planting the spring garden here. As many of you already know, organic vegetable gardening is my second hobby. Forecast has changed slightly since yesterday, still expecting highs in the 60's through Monday, but a bit cooler through Thursday, back into the 60's on Friday. Still no expected freezes coming up.
Been slow here in the Coffee Shop the last few days Flo, hope that everyone is tipping well. Make it a tall stack of blueberry pancakes and a plateful of sausage patties for me this morning. I'll wash it down with the usual glass of OJ.
Thanks for the likes yesterday regarding the layout tour pictures;,
Bob, Jerome, Chet, Bill, Phil, Chad, Ken Patrick, Tom.
While I reached the end of this quarter's cleanup project, I am not done with the tour pictures. This time around it took longer than normal because of the work required to move all of the trains out of and back into the staging yard. The other day I promised a picture of the maintenance workers working on the cooling tower on the RJ Frost cold storage facility. Here it is.
On the other side of Drywell Inks is an area that I am currently undecided on.
While I have these structures in place, I am not sure if I will keep them all there. It's one of those areas that require further study. But here is Rosa's Place, a Mexican cafe.
While it was at the workbench for cleaning, I added a sidewalk out front.
It can be seen in it's painted form in the second picture above. Sharp-eyed viewers will note that this is the same four Downtown Deco walls used for the Ace Auto Parts structure that I posted a couple of weeks ago.
Next to Rosa's is a pair of unfinished trailers. Need to add the underpinning to the one in front, but it got misplaced during the move to the train shed a few years back. I have since found it but haven't added it yet. That's Venus flashing to the passing traffic.
These trailers came from a now defunct company called NuComp Miniatures.
And finally Fred and Red's, another eatery. It is a laser cut kit from Blair Line.
As I posted, this area may or may not remain the same in the future. It's not a high priority area for scenery right now.
We'll continue the tour tomorrow.
Bob - You're moving fast in finding that retirement homestead. Good Luck. There really are no Whataburgers in the whole state of Tennessee. My wife's BIL loves their burgers and has to drive to Alabama to get one. He knows all of their locations from Cookeville to Gulf Shores and stops at all of them when we meet up for our annual vacation there.
Chet -
I will have to agree with you on the lack of accuracy on the old Athearn locomotives.
Even I am phasing out some BB locos in favor of ScaleTrains after all of these years. Many of the later Athearn RTR and Genesis locos are still serving the pike though.
Joe - I originally thought of receiving carbon black and other materials at Drywell Inks, but decided to just make this facility a repackager from bulk ink into barrels. It just isn't large enough to use as a manufacturing plant. I know that I could have expanded it with additional DPM modular walls, but didn't think of that at the time. Thanks for the thought though.
Greg -
Willie: That's one huge layout clean up job you're performing.
It may seem like it, but I only do 1/8 of the layout every quarter over a two year period. Track cleaning isn't really a concern but I do it anyway as a precaution. This is what I am really after.
Various flying and crawling kamikaze insects that get in the train shed and can't get out.
Beady - Seems like a fun cruise. Enjoy it.
Everybody have a great day and an awesome weekend.
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