Good morning. 56 degrees and partly cloudy.
Bob - Good to see you checking in. Enjoy your trip.
Ken in VA - It looks like you managed to get some bargains.
Joe - I doubt that I will get hooked. The main reason for getting the RS-1 is to have aq decent pulling locomotive to run at the club. I presently have three DCC locomotives. One, a Bachmann 2-6-0 was a gift from my son. Quite a wimp on grades so it wouldn't work well at the club. Another is a Bachmann S-4 switcher, also not a good candidate to run the grades. The third is in the video below, a BLI heavy mike. It does perform quite well, but again, the grades limit what it can pull quite a lot.
Willie - I am not a big fan of deer. Way too many of them running around up here trying to commit suicide by car. A few years ago I hit three deer in five weeks. Got a loyalty card at the body shop, but they said that they did move the target to the back bumper and I haven't got any since. Waiting to see how your town is coming along.
Sherrel - I am really hoping everything goes well for you tomorrow. God be with you.
Yesterday I never got a chance to check in as another project got started. Restaining out front porch. It is all redwood, but is also over 20 years old and some of the wood has weathered quite a bit, so the railings are being disassembled and sanded out. They are a pain to try to stain in place. A few boards are going to have to be replaced. The stair treads are worn and a few deck boards right at the front door as well as the top rails on the west end of the porch which get all of the weather and afternoon sun. After some sanding, almost all of the boards for the railings were stained and came out really good. My daughter and three grand kids showed up to help as well as my son and his wife. It was a bit of a pain though to try to work in the deck with all the grand kids and two dogs wanting to right in the middle of everything.
Had just enough time to get cleaned up, eat and get over to Livingston. Saturday nights the club is open to the public and we try to have as many trains running as possible with quite an assortment of old and new equipment. Below in the video is a BNSF train with the clubs camera car leading with my BLI mike pulling up the rear.
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Catch you later