Good Morning All. 71° and cloudy. Happy May Day. Thunderstorms ended earlier and deposited 1.1" in the gauge between 5:30 pm and midnight. Cooler day today with the high only 76°. Nothing boring about last night's weather around here, watches and warnings for flooding, severe thunderstorms and a tornado warning. There was a brief tornado about 35 miles SE of here in the city of Denton. Mostly just the usual spring weather for here.
Thanks for the comments and likes for yesterday's progress pictures,
Garry,
Jerome,
Sherrel, Chet,
Greg,
Dave,
Curt,
Justin,
Tom and anyone else whom I may have missed.
Yesterday was sort of a no-progress day in the train shed, at least on the industrial park. I did line out the remaining roads, but didn't add them yet. I made a few minor repairs to the large blue warehouse, re-gluing a corner and re-attaching two downspouts that had come off. I did run a few trains and switched things out there, to ensure faultless operation after all of the recent ballasting. Car clearance in the "alley" worked out OK as well. It does look like I will still have some blank plywood left in the industrial park for a while until I can obtain some suitable structures to fill in the gaps. I have over two dozen DPM, City Classics and Smalltown structures already built, but they don't fit the theme of the area. They're all destined for one of the other large blank areas that are still left to develop.
Looks like the local turn has spotted a covered hopper of fertilizer at the distributor.
Looking around, here is another industrial switching area on my layout.
That's a Walther's transload structure known as "Lakeside Shipping". In order to make it work in this location, I had to reverse the long walls to put the truck docks on the near side. As I recall, it wasn't as easy as it appeared to be before I started. In the back is a large backdrop warehouse that I made from Walther's modular walls. Wish that those were still available, but that's a different story.
Dave - I liked the scratchbuilt coal bin yesterday. I make many details out of "industrial garbage", similar to those street sweeper brushes.
Chet - I may have posted before, but I am really impressed with the yard on the club layout.
Curt - Ironically enough, "
Willie" came about after I went to college. Other than the neighborhood kids who knew me as Bill or Billy, the priests in high school as well as the nuns in grade school always called me William. In college, my high school buddies just started calling me Willie and it stuck. So other than obscenities, I have had four different first names in my lifetime as well as Daddy and Grandpa. When I was first married, my wife would hear family members refer to Bill and she didn't know who they were talking about!
Why do wives always seem to yank really hard on those pull chains on ceiling fans? Do all of them do that or just mine?
Everybody have a great day.