spending the day working on the Spokane Southern Railroad with my daughters Kirsten and Leslie.
The girls have been painting my upper level backdrop that they started over the summer before going back to university for the fall semester. Their assignment before going back for spring semester is to finish the backdrop on the upper level so that I can get my bus wiring in (the deck is 30" wide, and they have to get in between the studs to reach the backdrop), put down the 2" foam for the sub-roadbed, and then start laying cork and track where required.
Kirsten got started around 3:00PM.
Twin B Leslie came down after dinner, and started helping.
Here is an overall shot of the east side of the peninsula.
We wrapped up working around 11:00 PM.
In the interest of full disclosure, my home railroad is HO, I only do 3 rail scale on a modular railroad.
But they really don't care what scale they work with, to them this is just an art project. It is great being able to showcase some of their work on the railroad.
Here is a photo from about 2004 when they were working on the rock face for our modular scenery. After they put gesso on the rocks, they came home every day from school for a week straight, and then over the weekend putting on acrylic washes.
This effort provided photo opportunities like this:
Model Railroading, and associated railroad related vacations to the Colorado narrow gauge railroads, up to the pacific northwest for the Royal Hudson, Mt. Rainier Railroad, several steam excursions, model railroad shows etc. have been part of our family activities since our kids could walk. Hopefully, the whole clan will be able to take another trip out to Colorado for more quality time on the D&S and C&T. Unfortunately, I don't think that there will be too many more opportunities. They are just about all grown up, and ready to go out into the world on their own.
Regards,
Jerry
