Good Morning Everyone....nice day here in Wisconsin.
I didn't mention yesterday that while on a back roads trip near the cabin, we found a salvage yard that was cutting up railroad equipment for scape. Saw a SOO Line box car and a caboose being cut up. No track near by the yard so who knows how they got the cars get there...? Lots of semi- trailers and other equipment doomed for the salvage pile. (My junk yard will have a nose from a UP loco).
Trains this afternoon.
Mark: Nice trip. Any ideas for your layout from the trip?
Ken: I miss our trips on our Gold Wing and covered many states from Wyoming to North Carolina, perhaps 17 states and Canada in all. Actually, I enjoyed riding in the back roads in the rain. Best trip in the rain was in Missouri on our way to Branson on the Daniel Boone trail. A steady rain and no other traffic other than our three bikes.
Chet: Nice photographs of an interesting area.
Back to model railroading. I've breaking in a Walthers SW-1500 and it was making noise in reverse and after several hours of running backwards, the noise is almost gone. I usually break-in a locomotive with the loco pulling a train after a short running alone. Today, another hour of running in reverse and then in forward for awhile.
Work on scenery and the junk yard area. Need to wire the interlocking tower, the single LED is installed on the floor facing up, something different.
Plan on adding ground cover in front of the buildings in the rear of the industrial area, a long reach.
Purchased a Classic Metal Works HO vehicle for the layout.... a "Milwaukee Beer" truck from the 1954 fitting a beer truck for a Wisconsin layout.
That's all for now.
Greg
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