Good Morning Everyone. 75° and mostly clear, still hitting the low 90's every day. Spent about an hour mowing yesterday, catching up on the eight days that I missed for vacation. It looked like we got over 1" of rain while I was gone so the grass hasn't stopped growing yet.
Hello Flo. How about some poached eggs and ham this morning to go with that large glass of OJ.
Thanks for all of the likes and comments regarding both posts yesterday;
Chad, Clint, Jerome, Patrick, Lee, Phil, Curt, Chet, Joe, Tom, Garry, Louis, Justin.
Regarding the Scaletrains engines. I get the product line called "Rivet Counter". The detailing is excellent. I had previously purchased four SD40-2's, and they are excellent as well. They run as well as or better than my Kato or Genesis locomotives. Quality is excellent, that step falling off is the only issue that I have had with any of them. I would buy a lot more from them, but they came into the modeling realm too late for me, as I already had more engines and freight cars than I can reasonably fit on the layout. I still have unbuilt freight car kits (and a few RTR) on the shelf to keep me busy in the future.
Out in the train shed yesterday, I mostly ran my new engines. I did spend some time at the workbench assembling that Accurail freight car,
Here it is after I re-numbered it.
This one is going to get some graffiti and weathering before it hits the rails. While I am not a big fan of graffiti, I accept it. It is what it is and it provides more realism to the era and locale that I model.
Lee - Thanks, and yes I like kits. These Accurail ones are easier than their PS-2 covered hoppers. One thing about the Accurail ones, is they have four numbers available for most models. For $4, they will send a decal sheet with 12 additional numbers that match perfectly, thus allowing 16 individually numbered cars. If you cut and paste the decal sheets, the combinations are endless. Since ATSF bought 1000 of this particular car model (they didn't buy just one of anything!), this really helps build the fleet to realistic proportions.
Chet - Hard to believe that you're thinning the collection by eight! I hope that you take some pictures to show us what's departing.
Greg -
Willie: Excellent Santa Fe locomotives. I should order a locomotive or two from Scale Trains. The detail is unbelievable...brass like quality. I'll check their website tomorrow for Milwaukee or SOor even CNW. Willie, how much was that Scale Trains' ball point pen???
Are those operating ditch lights on the Santa Fe unit?
The pen actually cost me $560, while the candy was only $350. Ditch lights come on, but since I run DC, they don't alternately flash when appropriate.
Tom - For the era that I model, those engines are brand new. Besides, I have 60 others in line ahead of them for weathering! While I seem to have somewhat mastered the art of weathering freight cars, I haven't gotten real good at engines yet.
I didn't have time to sort through any more museum pictures yesterday, but there are more that I will get to soon. After the eight day vacation, I missed the train shed and I hope to spend a bit more time there this week to make up for the lost time; if I can get the mowing out of the way.
Where was
Sherrel yesterday?
Everybody have a great day.