My layout is located in the basement of my office building. Today the office was closed, but the basement was open for business.
I have been neglecting my trains but ‘‘tis the season. I embarked on an ambiguous schedule today. I rebuilt some train shelving. I cleaned all 9 tracks of the yard that had not only got dusty but that had rusted a little bit. Repaired some of the choke throws for my yard switches. Worked on some dirty track on the mainline and ran some trains.
While doing all that I managed to kneel on a nail. It’s surprising how much a knee can bleed. Lol. I also had my Lionel Allegany go up in smoke. It’s the second engine I have had develop a short in the last year. I know it’s part of the hobby, but it sure isn’t my favorite part. There are no repair shops anywhere near where I live. When an engine goes down, it’s udually down fur the count. Shipping doubles the repair bill.
All in all a good day. The nail hurt but the engine hurt worse.
Here are are some of the beautiful faces I put up in the rebuilt shelf today 
