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Ran a few trains.

Hi Jim as you know I couldn't get a thing done today on the layout. The wife

(aka the boss) was in command today. So I will have to wait until tomorrow.

But I did run a train for a few minutes.

Thanks, Alex

Well,  it wasn't technically ON the layout, but it will benefit the layout. Put together this new workbench.  Posing on it, B&O GP9 from 1999.

B&OBill

well i ran the heck out of my conventional trains today.also ran all my smoking caboose's and smoking bunk car's.

did some scenry work which i've been putting off for quite some time now.

also cleared the workbench off a little.got my new c-420 lionel engine to smoke.darn thing just wouldn't smoke with that sleeve wrapped around the resistor.

its a good smoker now!

here's a pair of my favorite lionel engines(u36 b's) waiting for the traffic to clear up ahead.

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Just got thru running a part of my Opp session with my ProTrak, my thru Train BRNO is at Reserve yard dropping off and picking up next stop New Orleans yard

After a 3 month wait, (It can take a long time get things when you are not in the USA.) some Plasticville buildings I had ordered reached my local shop last week. So today, I positioned them on my temporary layout and arranged a few trees around them. With any luck, the people who will live in these buildings will arrive  next week.

Afterwards I sat for a while and dreamed of how it will look one day, as my trains ran around the loops, filling the air with smoke, sound and possibilities. 

Nothing on the layout. I'm working on new buildings for the new layout. Just started the Downtown Grill and finished (almost) the "Cat House". Still have touch up and more weathering before I can call the girls in. Don

Contemplated how to deal with the darn warping plywood surrounding the turntable so I can get on with finishing the engine servicing area.  Grrrrrr!

My wife is at her sister's till tomorrow.  Some kind of touchy, feely, odd, girl thing.  So I'm running the heck out of the trains I've been hiding from her that I got this week.  Life Is Good!  

Haven't done much do to the extreme heat we are getting here in South Jersey!!!!!   I should go down the basement and run my trains, its cooler down there.  I told myself I would operate them at least once every two weeks.  Do to some health issues with the bride that's put on hold. Have been thinking about the changes I want to make every night before bed, supposed to have an open house for my train buds in March.  Well lets go for November.  Maybe tonight I will run them.  Ed P.

Added a sidewalk to the plasticville motel.  Found what are possibly HO sized sidewalks at Tuesday Morning but they work real well.  For 2 bucks a box, I should go back and buy the rest that were there.

I ran some standard and O gauge.       Then went to work.

Well we're in the packing mode for our move in late Sept.  Our hallway & living room are full of packed boxes.  I can't wait for the 1st of the yr to start my new layout but in the mean time I'm planning my Christmas Garden for our new neighbors to enjoy. 

I working on getting my bridge abutments supports installed for my new highway bridge across my river valley. The bridge is now temped in and ready to glue the abutments to the supports. Have just been doing this in little installments. It's great working in the basement in this 90 to 100 degree weather. Only bad part is cutting wood in the garage and driveway in the heat.

Art

Zippola. Swam, cooked out on the grill, walked in the woods. Now I'm going to sit down with British mag Model Rail and read a few articles.

Man Art, for a second I thought the heat got to you. I was thinking you were cutting fire wood in the driveway. Don

Got a few minutes between all the items on the honey do list. Went down to the cool train room, pointed a fan at myself and just sat and gazed for 20 minutes. Never even turned on the power.

Tested some 042 curves and decided that they will be ok, just not on the main.

Reorganized the wye so that it will go into the center of the railroad. Getting ready to purchase lumber.

I am cleaning my bedroom today, so I took a couple train related boxes downstairs and put them on the layout for now.

My sister was visiting my brother, so I invited them both over to see the layout.  First time anyone has seen it, other than my wife and a couple friends who have been in on it from the beginning.  Back in the 1950's, my brother and I ran my dad's Ives standard gauge on the attic floor, so having him see what I've done with it was a big step.

We ran a couple DCS trains, some McCoy conventional, and of course my dad's original Ives.  Everything worked great, within the paramaters of what I have up and running at this point.  Big sister was very supportive, more or less like she always has been for 60 years.  Bunch of not-so-young-anymore kids.   Momentous occassion!

100 degrees hear near Dallas. So  after church and grocery shopping, I turned on the ac in my train shed, and proceeded to clean up tools scattered everywhere,( I just added a new section of benchwork to extend the main line and laid the new track there), so had to clean the mess up....now eating our weekly family Sunday dinner and movie watching...a good day, James 

Not a thing on the layout, but i hung 2 display cabinets and took 16 of my Engines and put them into the display.   Its a start

Just ran trains for a couple of minutes.  Cleared away a few spider webs.  Then removed all four engines to swap them out for different ones to run this week.

- Mike

It must have been a nice day in my town.  Several People and autos appeared today!

Doug

You know, just the usual, I ran my Lionel TMCC New York Central hudson for about 15 minutes, then I uncoupled some cars.

If I get some free time tonight after the kids go to bed, I plan to start lettering my MTH 2-8-0 that I painted this morning.  

Today I experimented with making a video of my trains/layout...hope this comes out OK.

-Len

Sat on the floor in front of my beginnings of a platform and just visualized. I find it does wonders for planning. Too hot outside to cut trim for the layout.

Art...just viewed all of your photos on your website.  Incredible layout.  Are those 2x2s you are using for the leg supports?  

Rick

Just got home from the cabin, hoping to get out to the layout before bed to run a train or two.

I worked on a section of street with two crossings, a backdrop behind a bridge, put some finishing touches on a general store and wired the lights up in a church.

I spent about two hours in the train room this afternoon.  Did some switching with the "Local", then ran a main line freight.  Just sat and dreamed of what I need to do to make the layout better.

Tom 

Nothing today - but yesterday we repaired a large scratch built structure - thank you Ms Eclair - and Mini-muffin weathered about a dozen MTH buildings while I installed a retaining wall and helped arrange them..... Bridge Boss is building us a train shed that backs up to our station complex and we are thinking it will ship this week.....

This day went as planned.  Wife was gone, 3 +/- twenty year old kids were out, theoretically contributing to society in some positive way, and broke in a new train, which had been a bit troublesome.  I've enjoyed leftover pizza, bbq ribs from last night, homemade hummus and salsa the with proper dipping chips for each, ice cream, half the movie Unforgiven and have blissfully enjoyed a day in my house with almost no distractions or unneccessary aggravations.  I hope I don't wake up.  Knock on wood...

Today I started my layout,  16 feet of bench completed,  few tracks and I play with my son. Tonight I'm  building  a PC for use in the train room , I'm now finishing to upgrade Windows and I will install JMRI and Cadrail after. 

Today I painted the tall,"rusty iron" water wheel I am building for a stone and brick

mill...I also glued together the front three walls, but need material to finish the side

walls. and haven't reached the source...who may be at the O scale show this weekend.  I am, as usual, severely  kitbashing a mill kit, as its vision of a mill doesn't match mine from hunting down and photographing a few.  It will be raised from two stories to three and lengthened, probably doubled.  The coloring and weathering of those three (half) walls and installation of windows, but not yet "glass", is done.

This is my third mill with a water wheel, and I think I have finally got a handle on

making water wheels.  I am going to do one more, large barn red wooden one,

and that will make twice as many as I would hope to get on the layout, and I should

be saturated with mills. (they look good on shelves, too)

I started to wire the town (again) after tearing the old layout down due to the fact that I wanted to change things up a bit (which ended up with a whole new track system and complete tear down of the old one).

I started laying the track on my middle level of the layout. Hopefully I can get it finished this week and get some pics posted.

Installed new T-5 HiOutput lighting in the shop area.  Wow, a whole new bright day has arrived!  Bright white high Kelvin/C.R.I.  True car colors.  Makes me think about doing the train room.  High noon June 21 all year long.