It looks like this weekend will involve a fair amount of Christmas shopping on top of the normal bi-weekly grocery shopping. Since we have to shop for my wife, which means a trip to her favorite clothing store, which is next to one of my favorite local hobby shops. I would like to finish painting the ground along the hillside and in the tunnel area. I am not going to start coloring the rocks just yet. I need to ballast the track in the tunnel area so I can build the roof for the tunnel. I also have a fair amount of touching up to do on the track weathering. A trip to the craft store is needed to get paint, plaster, and Sculta-mold.
I just had a 12' clothes rack that was running the length of my garage fall off the wall narrowly missing the trains and perhaps taking otu the christmas ornaments, so the plan for the weekend is to fix that.
Hopefully, I can get something done. My life has been pretty busy lately and I haven't gotten much done. I hope to get a DPM building that I have been working on finished. It needs glass, and interior, and weathering. Eric
Nada Maybe _if_ XY and Z _then_ I might do something. Edit: Correction - Will be attending a local model railroad open house.
I'm stuck on a midnight yard goat. Maybe if I get a few early quits...:lightbulb: I did look at a few projects when I got home, does that count?:teeth:
I've been working on a scenicing a pair of NTrak modules (8'total), and hope to make a big dent on the final 4'. Of course, we have to make room for the Christmas tree and get it inside so the cats can play in it before the ornaments go on. Quite possibly I'll get dragged out for some Christmas shopping as well. BUT today is rainy and windy, which makes for a perfect model railroading day. NCDaveD
My son is coming over this evening for a little operating session. I already have the Ozark local made up in the yard. Nothing like an operatiing session to bring out the worst in a layout. You know the old saw about everything works fine until the guest/operators arrive. Later in the weekend I hope to get a little more scenery done in the Ozark area.
Would like to continue on the benchwork, if my head cold calms down enough. If not, I'll just watch train videos. Research, you know.
Well I was looking forward to the monthly operating session at TB member ppuinn's layout, but central and northern IL is getting hammered with snow right now. I just took Tina into work and it took over an hour round trip, usally takes 30 mins. The roads are not to bad for a old New Englander, but the white has the visability to null. I'll finish up these five Metra units for a local shop and spend the rest of the weekend getting the tree up. A good day for coffee, train videos and layout work!
Not a whole lot going on with the railroad this weekend, but Sunday is the next regular SCWD meet. I've got to print the NMRA judging form for Ryan since he wanted one of his models judged, and I've got to get a few things ready for the auction.
Just got back from a neat HO train display. Inspired me to start my second loop. Hopefully I'll have it in operation by the end of this weekend. I need to buy more curves. I bought a bunch of 22 inch radius curves for a small price, but found out, they wont fit on the room I would of been using them in, so I have to buy 18 inch rad curves. And some running of course, I do have one line in operation and have been running long passenger cars not stop on my 18 radius curves, which is suprising. Not one derailment!! Well maybe one....
As Jim (bnsf7173) indicated, we had a major snow storm here in Central Illinois. My schools were closed due to the snow, so I spent today home shoveling 12" of heavy snow from my 150 foot driveway and then went over to help my neighbor whose stroke a few years ago left him dependent on a cane. The guy who was lined up to do both mine and my neighbor's driveways called us this morning and said his snow blower wasn't working well due to the excessive wetness and depth of the snow, so he wouldn't be able to do our driveways...:sad: Jim and his wife Tina had intended making the 2 hour trip down to join me in my First-Friday-of-the-Month operating session this evening, but I had to cancel the session due to the hazardous road conditions. Instead, I got all cars on the RIP track repaired and returned to service except for an oversized load that is going to need a more creative intervention. This weekend, I'll probably continue adding scenery (trees and houses) to the Rock Island Kellar Branch. I've also recently ballasted some of the tracks in my scrap yards served by the Peoria and Pekin Union Ry and hope to continue ballasting, plus paint some scrap piles and loads I bought from Jim's JTW Enterprises the last time he was down to operate.
This weekend, is up the Christmas tree and decorations weekend. Plan on getting that done on Saturday. Sunday is the Scarborough Model Railways Open House, I am planning on heading out to tour their HO and N scale layout. I will get some modeling in late Sunday
I'd like to lay more track but duty calls. Christmas decorating indoors is the goal today. On Sunday we make a 6-hour round trip to relatives. Since I'm retired, I'll have some free time next week. I'm getting tired of laying track; am anxious to run trains and start scenery, a task I like.
Going to a train show today, at H&R in Pinellas, Florida. Its only about 2 miles away. Cannot wait to go.
