Good Morning Y'all. Mostly cloudy and 51° to begin our day here. Slow day on the SFW estate due to the wet ground, however the "honey-do" list got shorter. Grilled some chicken breasts yesterday afternoon and then shredded them to make some "copycat" Outback Alice Springs Chicken Quesadillas for supper. Tonight it's grilled marinated rib-eyes.
What's on special today Flo? Eggs Benedict, OK make it a double order over here.
Thanks for the continuing likes and positive comments regarding the layout tour;
Bill,, Chet, Alan, Phil, Jim, Greg, Rick, Jerome, Tom, Mikey.
Here's the next portion of the layout traveling south.
I have no idea who made this structure kit as I got it over 25 years ago. The Leviathan Manufacturing sign came from a Walther's decal sheet.
Across the street is Olsen Feeds. This is a repurposed DPM kit that I don't remember the name of. It may be C. Smith Packing House.
Out in the train shed, I just felt like adding a new car to the roster. It's an Intermountain RTR 40' vegetable oil tanker. While I usually do kits, there's no beating RTR tankers for the details and ease of construction. All that you have to add to these models are the brake lines. As is the norm for Intermountain stuff (at least for me), I also have to make some repairs to the car as well. Really can't return them because my LHS owner retired shortly after I did four and a half years ago.
In this case the end railing is loose and almost coming off. The bolster also fell off when I removed the truck and the truck screw post was cracked
Screw is long enough that the cracked post didn't matter. I need to add shelf couplers to this car but I seemed to have run out temporarily. I also have some placards but cannot locate them right now.
Also found this in the packaging.
I thought that it might go here, but after looking at other models of the same car, it didn't. The B-end only has one diagonal brace on five other cars that I checked including two NIB. Besides the part is too short. So I still don't know if it is actually part of this car.
I have since painted the tips of the added air hoses silver but that picture was a flop.
Alan - I'm not pleased with the trailers between the two restaurants either, which is the main reason that I haven't proceeded any further on that spot. I am open to suggestions for that area as it may be another year before I get to it. I have a lot of room elsewhere for the trailers along with a half dozen others.
Greg - Yes it seems early for a garden to those living up north, but I have two seasons here, late January - June and September - November. Nothing grows in July-August except peanuts, sweet potatoes and okra. And they usually require irrigation. February can sometimes throw me a curve ball, but the only things that I have in the ground are normally things that can survive freezes like onions and salad greens. Snow is good as it insulates the plants/ground from the temperatures. In an average year in this part of Texas, there's only six days a year that the temperature doesn't actually get above freezing.
Yes, Rosa's is a Downtown Deco Hydrocal structure from Randy.
Chet -
Can't quite make out what you found cleaning the tracks.
One is a cricket and the other is a dirt dauber. They get in usually when I have the door open and cannot get out and end up dying from dehydration. Other critters that I regularly remove are ladybugs.
Mikey - Never thought of using dryer sheets. Great idea, Thanks. I have tried using used teabags with only limited success.
James - Certainly looks like a decent haul.
Everybody have a great day.