Good morning. 29 degrees to start off the day with an expected high in the upper 50's. This has been a strange year for us up here. A very late spring and a slow start for trees and shrubs and almost no fall colors at all. We had one tree at the end of the driveway start to turn colors, but then we had the snow come and the leaves on all of the trees with the exception of the aspens just dried up and fell to the ground.
Clint - Thanks for posting the videos. I had seen the first one, but the second gave a lot of insight into Busters acting.
Sherrel - That is one interesting train.
Chad - Those trains look more like submarines. Interesting photo.
Dave - Nice to see a photo of your layout. Looks like some good construction. I don't know how you guys in the land of fruit and nuts put up with the high cost of living and taxes out there. In recent years I have had a few old friends move out of the state that they once loved. A few were basically taxed out of their homes.
Willie - Those were some awesome photos of the city scenes. Sure wish i had any more real estate available.
It was an interesting night at the club last night. I was not off to a good start as when I put the additional A unit on the track, it ran in the opposite direction as the other units. As I have mentioned many times, I am a DCC dummy' I have enough knowledge to put a locomotive on the tracks and enter the locomotive into the hand set and get it to move. One of the guys went and reprogrammed the additional A unit to a different number I had entered my original A and B units on the right throttle. He went and entered the new reprogrammed A unit on the left throttle and MUed it to the other 2. I need
HELP from someone familiar with DCC to work me through this process. I got distracted for a second by a visitor and missed how he MUed the units together.
We had six trains running plus one operator switching in the yard in our east subdivision. Here is an interesting photo of a helper on a grade.
It was pulling around a 60 car ore train. The cars are loaded with real ore so they are a bit heavy and needed help on the grade. Took a photo of it but it was too blurred to bother posting.
After putting the A-B-A units on the tracks with the 20 or so freight cars I brought, I headed over to the east subdivision to hook onto a dozen tank cars that the switcher had set out for me. All of the clubs tank cars have had additional weight added to them as tankers are usually a bit light. After picking up the tank cars the train headed back into the main room and and pulled the grade with no problem at all. Here is the power descending the grade. .
Backing off a bit I tried to get the entire train in the photo. Couldn't fit it all in.
It looks like the Gardiner loop is the best place to photograph long trains.
We do have a G scale loop suspended from the ceiling above the town of Gardiner. I tried a number of times to get back to the yard in the east subdivision to pick up a few more cars but with all of the trains running, my timing was off. A couple of times a train was parked on the yard lead while the track cleaning car was having the pad cleaned or had to detour because a couple of guys decided to run in the opposite direction. It was an interesting night and I am sure that the A-B-A trio can easily handle more cars
Again, if someone can help me figure out how to get these units MUed together using Digitrax please let me know.