Good Morning All. Partly cloudy and 56°. May hit 80° today after 77° yesterday. Afternoon and evening thundershowers are in the forecast later today, which will cool things down a bit. Yesterday, I applied a top dressing of compost to the garden so the rain will be just right. I picked more lettuce yesterday for last night's salad. Spent part of the day using the weedeater yesterday for the first time this year. I also did some other minor yard chores. May get to do some mowing today before the rain.
Make it simple this morning Francine, two sunny side up eggs with a handful of bacon.
This is the beginning of a very long-winded post!
Thanks for the many likes and comments yesterday about the train ride;
Karl, Patrick, Justin, Rick, Guy, Sherrel, Chad, Jaz, Phil, Tom O, Greg, Gary, Tom, Ken, Garry. I will continue the series today.
As promised, we'll continue the journey following that hot-shot mixed freight through the layout today.
I'll start with the last picture going past the industrial park in south Vernon.
Coming around the peninsula.
As we round the bend, we pass the paint distributor.
Then we enter the small city known as Maultown.
Never mind that large razor blade in the alley there!
Since this is a hot-shot, all other rail traffic has pulled into sidings to let it pass.
The final picture of the journey is entering a small as yet unnamed village.
Out in the train shed as well yesterday, I did start on the next project area in Rycon Township. As I posted recently, I am raising this small 10" x 48" area by 1/4". Here is the start. I used scraps of plywood sheathing for this, thus the seam down the middle.
Looks sloppy right now, ground cover and paint hides a lot of sins!
Took a pause yesterday on figure painting.
Patrick - Too bad about your lack of decent internet service there. My local ISP is in a town of about 1600, but serves a much larger rural area with a few smaller towns. They applied for and received a government grant to improve internet access for our mostly rural area. They installed the fiber-optic lines in 2010, and more in 2016, but ran out of money before they hooked everybody up. Those close to the office got it, but it took until 2018 for them to get a third grant that enabled them to get to us. As part of the grant, hookup was free to existing landline customers and there was no rate increase,
yet! I have neighbors who had given up their landlines for cell service and don't have it and will have to pay to have it installed.
Troy - Keto or no Keto, a grill is a very important part of my cooking appliances. Even in mid-winter it gets used a couple of times a week. It does require some patience though, because I am a diehard charcoal or wood user...no propane here even though I have a 150 gallon tank of it 30' away!
Chad - Good luck to your son.
Sherrel -
I wish that I had taken more photos as a young person of things in my small hometown and other subjects. I didn't have a good camera and not much money for developing
I didn't know cameras were invented then!
Jaz - Hey! Good to read that you seemed to have fixed the fox issue. I hated the thought of those beautiful creatures being someone's meal.
I love the sleigh model. And it looks like it would be easy to scratch build.
You sure have been posting some excellent modeling pictures since you joined the forum. Thank you for coming aboard.
I really like the one with the farm animals along the side of the road. Really shows the difference in the English countryside and the dull area that I live in. Your figures bring a lot of life to your scenes. I too like painting and using figures, I have over 800 now on the layout.
Justin - Just wanted to chime in again. 1/2" to 3/4" buckling is really extreme. You're obviously experiencing wood issues as well as track issues. While I do not use many Snap Switches (Maybe six out of 115), I eyeball all of them and have had to apply pressure to remove the bow out of maybe 5% of all Snap or Custom Line ones. It's never much, but when combined with track expansion and wood warpage, it certainly will cause problems. I have only one Walther's curved turnout and I had to fix it as well.
Terry - Prayers and positive thoughts from me for Marie and your family will continue.
Mikey - Good news regarding the storms.
Joe - Boy, you're hit the nail on the head exactly about the stress level after getting the first shot.
Garry - Good news from the doc.
Tonight is the beginning of Passover if you aren't already aware. Tomorrow will be Palm Sunday to us Catholics.
Everybody have a great Saturday. It has turned foggy here since I began to write this post earlier.