Lets all hope for a slow month of June, so we can enjoy this time of year with, what else, more trains! As reported on Friday, trains were not in my plans this past weekend. Jared had Soccer in nearby Indy this weekend so we left Friday night after work and he had four games over the course of the weekend. We did get to have lunch at a Bagger Dave's, a RR themed hamburger shop. They had a G scale Santa Fe pulling a small string of reefer cars going around a track system near the ceiling. The photographs were real neat too, showing the area traction that once travelled in Indiana. The good thing about this weekend is the down time in driving gave me time to do some thinking and had me come up with some ideas on a joint project I have been working on. With Jared's Soccer season over until September, it's time for me to start thinking about this summers upcoming prototype meet in Collinsville, IL later in August. So how about you? Did you get any model railroading projects accomplished? Some bench work or wiring perhaps? Maybe some painting? Whatever you did, let us know, with pictures if you have them. We'll start this all over again on Friday the 13! Until then, have a happy and safe work week and... High Greens!
Finished gluing down and cleaning all my track. Only took me a month, but finally found the time to finish it. Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk
Less progress than I would have liked, but still something. I got the two old Mantua streamline cars back in service, after their visit to the paintshop and wiring replacement for the interior LEDs. Three more cars to go. Here's one original and one upgraded: When I looked at this picture, I was surprised by the skin color difference. Yes, I cleaned them, but were the old ones really that dirty? As it turns out, they weren't. It's just the lighting. Another happy surprise was the close match between the rattle-can spray paint I used for the cars and the paint job on Gigi, my new GG-1. I got no railroading done on Sunday. I got stuck "straightening up" because some real-estate lady was coming over. Later, I decided to go for a bike ride. I hadn't been on my trail bike for a while, so I took it down the old right-of-way of the Bedford & Billerica that ran a quarter mile from where my house now stands, and then continued on another abandoned line, the Reformatory Branch of the Boston & Maine.
I got the main trusses built and the first of three sets of cross trusses done. Not sure what to work on, my soldering/ building, or my photography. Bobby
