This weekend has the grocery store trip and the pet food store trip. My wife is working all day Saturday and the kids will be going to a birthday party Saturday afternoon. I have not been told what Sunday holds for us. I would like to finish weathering the two Intermountain steel reefers, two Atlas wood reefers, two Walthers USRA gondolas, and two P1K composite gondolas I have been working on.
I plan to do some modeling. Other than attending the N scale convention (DCE) convention in Louisville, I haven't done anything for a few months. I need to get started. I just received a monopod for my camera, so I will practice with that a little, too. Maybe some new pictures of old models soon.
:tb-biggrin: Punching a hole through the wall to expand the layout into the next room!!! And on Sunday, my division of the NMRA is having a track tour and business meeting... might swing by there if my "honeydo" list permits.
I need to make the track components list and get it priced and submitted to the finance committee (read wife) for approval. I also plan to get a basic structures and needed (because I have the already owned) rolling stock and locomotive list done. I may have time to put together a kit reefer or 2 (fingers crossed).
I plan on finishing a 1:25 1959 Impala for our local automodelers meeting on Monday. I might make a stop at the local Greensburg train show in Monroville, PA with the wife. With a little luck and some free time I hope to change a few 40' LV box cars over to MT body mounts. I hope everyone has a nice weekend.
To wake up and find out it's FRIDAY. Where did this week go? I finally got the mini-city of San Berdu installed on the train layout. I've laid out sectional track to get some idea on how to track the station. I need to bring in a connector from the regular layout and start the construction for a hidden stub end staging yard underneath the mini-city. Pictures...later! This weekend will find me at one of the local churches running the PA system for a wedding. Wishing the couple well. Have a good weekend.
Last weekend I stored away most of the rolling stock / locos. This weekend if all goes well I will: finish the run the other do the rest of um, never mind. I'll post on Monday what I really did.
Tomorrow, a few guys come to the basement, playing with trains. :angel: What else? Building my station and posting about it. Wolfgang
<looks up at main deck framing with most of the bus wires done> There could be some layout building there Tempting, very tempting. or, I could buy a new video card and play games instead.
THAT sounds like a pretty good time. Track coming through!!! I really have to get two highway overpasses planted and finished before I can move on. Just some time tweaking the piers and gluing this to that. Man, after working with bridges both highway and rail, I now understand why the prototypes avoid them too! :tb-wacky:
Shoot, on vacation without a dime to soend at the Anehiem train show. I may not even go. Instead after some yard work the weeks goals are; 1. Mount the footings on my trestle firmly and at least add the hardshell back in. 2. Re-lay some of the track in my high desert town to make more room for structurs. 3. Touch up the clouds on the backdrop using the stinsels recently aquired. 4. Lay out the city scene. 5. Create some finished scenery somewhere on the layout and post photos. 6. Dig into another bridge. 7. Create a sequential schedule and come up with a good story for it. 8. Run trains in between all this. Any help out there?
Do a little work on the staging track (work out some kinks), start in on some basic scenery, add something to reinforce the back of the layout (add this to the Stupid Mistakes List- not bracing an old wooden hollow-core door before building a layout on it, leading to a nasty sag in the middle), do a little work on my Baldwin switcher, figure out how to add weight to my Atlas RDS4 to make it a better puller (there's a disappointment- a 6-axle diesel model with only 4 axles powered). Now if I accomplish even a couple of these tasks, I'm ahead of the game.
3 1/2 weeks after a heart attack, I'm feeling a bit better. I sitting in my office/train room looking at places of unlaid track. I just discovered I can fit in a small industry and short spur. On my small layout, everything helps. Now all I need to do is get myself moving to work on the layout, something I haven't been able to do lately. Oh well, I do have a pretty darn good excuse. My plan for this weekend is to get some more track down on Sunday. This may be a short project, depending on how I feel, but progress nonetheless.
