Good Morning Everyone. 71° and cloudy. Might get rain around midnight, hopefully without wind so I don't have to get up and close any windows. I really usually don't know unless it comes through the window next to my side of the bed on me, or if the wife aggressively nudges me and tells me to get up and check other rooms. Muggy day yesterday; had to turn on one of the A/C units in the house and in the train shed. Yesterday I had a relatively lazy day for me. Went for my usual walk, spent about ten minutes clearing fallen leaves off the pool cover and rearranged the flowers and potted herbs on the back porch. Spent too much time on the Internet.
Even my time in the train shed was uneventful. I had several derailments during a switching run, all at the same turnout. Eventually traced it to points not making full contact with a rail, and made an adjustment to the ground throw mounting (with hammer and nail punch) that resolved the issue. Not sure why I didn't catch it before I ballasted it. This was the first attempt at performing a "live" switching maneuver at this location with three cars at a grain elevator and two others at a warehouse. The planned sequencing worked out well. My conductor did a great job. Vacuumed the floor with the shop-vac, removed trash and beer bottles and dusted off cobwebs from the windows. Vacuumed some ROW on the layout with the handheld afterwards.
Garry - I like your picture of the 0-8-0.
Sherrel - How true about fearing Mom after getting a paddling at school. Another mom usually told mine before I even got home!
Ken in MD - I should repost some of my old pictures also for the same reason. We have an ever changing group of visitors here. I like seeing many of the older ones again. My favorites as I said get saved to my "inspiration" folder, but interests change and I may see something a second time that inspires me.
Let's see, time to switch to a different museum for today's pictures. Back to the Foley AL Railroad Museum. This is the one with the very large "O" scale layout that was willed to them. It is in a separate building built out back of the regular museum. It has lots of animation and whimsical scenes, many of which I posted last year. Here's a few that I took this year.
Later guys. Time to check this weeks stock market gains.
Everyone have an awesome day.
Willie