Boris
Beach Bum
It's the "Sunnyland" in latter operation during 1965.
Yo Sherrel! That's the perfect pike sized train. Any photos of the Will Rogers from the same era?
Boris
It's the "Sunnyland" in latter operation during 1965.
Yo Sherrel! That's the perfect pike sized train. Any photos of the Will Rogers from the same era?
Boris
Afternoon All,
Had my eye appointment this morning at the VA. After getting home I did some chores then headed to the train room. I glued the side panels on the bents (to hold the coal) then decided to apply Tichy NBW's to the side boards for eye appeal. There are 8 sides to be done with 20 to each side. I finished 5 sides and ran out of the NBW's. I do have Tichy Rivets that are almost the same size and decided to finish using them since the bents will be narrow side to the viewer so not a show stopper.
Toot- Prayers for those that will be affected by the storms.
Chet- Nice looking layout scene.
Mark- Nice layout shot.
I hope everyone has a good night.
Got down to the basement last night and set up a double-track oval and siding. I just wanted something to run a train on. Wound up spending a couple of hours solving a problem where the turnouts are just a tad shorter than their straight section equivalents, and substituting two shorter sections didn't work, either. After some contemplation on the basement toilet, I remembered I had some expandable sections, but then couldn't find them. I finally realized that they were almost dead ringers for the uncoupling sections. Wound up using three of the four to line up a double-track section with a single-track and a turnout. That part was exhausting, and I was too tired to deal with the next problem.
I chose my lightest train for a first run, the Chicago Zephyr. Sure enough, it hung up on a couple of sectional joints, where the end of one rail was slightly higher than the end of the next. The train did make it all the way around the outer loop before hanging up on the 2nd lap, but the loco couldn't make it past that point afterwards, and a couple of attempts at fixing it didn't help. I bagged it for the night. At least I've identified the problem area. Oddly/thankfully, there doesn't seem to be a problem with either the turnouts connecting the two loops, or the turnouts of the siding.
I was also forced to sort some track during this exercise, and it appears I won't have to worry about reclaiming the sections that have had their plastic ballast painted and/or had more ballast glued on; I have way more clean sections than I'll ever need. In fact, I'll be able to recoup some train money by selling the "dirty" track and several other items. Thankfully, I was working a pretty high-paying job when I started buying; I just rediscovered that one of my Kato sets (including loco) is worth almost $1k on ebay.
I may take a break today and watch a movie or two. At 37° it's just a little to cold and damp to go to the zoo.
Maybe not, but you can not say it as much as you want.I guess I win the First Post of the Day contest. Too bad I don't have anything to say.
Mark - Hope you start getting the warmer weather that we have experienced over the past week. I like you am over winter.
Later