Was it a hard week or and easy week to get through? We're almost there, time for weekend Modeling Plans. As Galesburg gets closer my list grows longer. I'm off to the club in Bloomington tomorrow morning to help get the new yard ready for the show. I also got the spray booth out of storage and need to get that set up. With that done I hope to get some serious work done on my T-Trak module. I have a back up plan in case the Road Kill Cafe module doesn't get finished. I'll also be doing a short seminar at Galesburg on detailing locomotives and doing more of a round robin discussion, so I'll need to prepare for that. Monticello may be running steam this weekend, so I might try to get some pictures track side. So how about you? Busy weekend with wiring? Maybe you'll get some painting done? How about train shows? Let us know your plans this weekend. We'll get together on Monday, the 11th and compare notes and see how we did. Until then, get busy! ​High Greens!
I envy you guys who have train shows all summer. For us in New England, it seems to be a thing that only happens in the late fall and early spring. We had the Greenberg people try a mid-summer show once, but it never happened again, so I guess it didn't work out well for them. Anyway, I've got more work to do on the structures of Mooseport. I think I'll take it slow-but-steady on those, and do some maintenance work on my F7 fleet. I think 2 of them are sitting in the RIP box right now. These are archaic (Cenozoic? Etruscan? 1950s?) Athearn shells from my teenage years, the seldom-seen-anymore light gray Milwaukee Road models. One is on a newer chassis I found at a show, and another is on a brand-new replacement Athearn chassis. A third is just a dummy now, but with a sound-and-lights-only decoder. I picked up the Diesel Detail kits for these sometime back, when Walthers was selling them out at closeout prices, and this might be the time to spruce them up and get them running.
During the week I ballasted my two N-Trak modules and i'm now doing some hard shell scenery to get them ready to use at the Alco Museum Sunday in Schenectady NY
Since the $ is a little short right now I am looking at starting my backlog of painting and detailing rolling stock. I have 4 locomotives to strip, another 19 locomotives that need painting and/or detailing. Also a whole slew of cars that have been built but not painted and more to be built and painted.
None. I'll be leaving Sunday morning at 7:00 to go to Lincoln with Grandure Lady who told me to say "Hi" to Jim Wiggins.
I'm going to try to finish assembling some more of my Intermountain 40' box car kits. And reefer kits. And tank car kits. I have enough kits to keep me busy until the end of the year. What year, I don't know. Hmm... I'll be finished paneling my treehouse by July...
Laying N scale cork and extra Woodland Scenics foam roadbed down on my HO scale Frisco Paris, TX layout. A little Liquid Nails, some brads to hold the cork down after it's been pressed onto the layout, and hey presto-roadbed! I'm using N scale roadbed because I'm modeling a secondary line of the Frisco (no 6-axle EMDs and GEs lugging coal and piggyback here), and I won't be going any faster than yard-limit speeds. Got the DCC system ordered, and awaiting its arrival, after which when I get the track laid I can wire things up.
Steve, although I'm in illinois, my spirit in NH says Hi to you and Grandure Lady. Lincoln is beautiful this time of year, relax and have fun!
The NMRA Gulf Coast Region convention is in Houston this week. I have been going to clinics since Wednesday and entered a few models in the contest room.
