Welcome back my friends to the gateway to the weekend. I hope you all had a great week and are ready with some projects. Let's get started. Saturday: I'll start by sleeping in. I'm hosting a Live Feed tonight at 7:00pm with Tony Cook of Model Railroad News and Deryk of DG Modelworks. It's for work but it will be a fun workshop style round table talk of Athearn trains. I'm hoping to start wrapping up an N scale locomotive project and start the groundwork on the B&M branch shadowbox. I received my book, Queen City Rails, this past week and what a flood of memories! Manchester NH has certainly changed in the last 40 years, hard to believe the city hosted a yard, branch lines and so many little industrial spurs. While the shadowbox is not based on a prototype, I will at least have a lot of inspiration to fool the eye into thinking it is 1970's New Hampshire. At 7:00pm my time, I'll be on a live stream with Ken Bianco Jr. of Trainworld and Tony Cook to talk about Athearn's SD45-2 in Bicentennial colors. That should be a good time. Sunday: With the cold weather set in, we will likely stay in all weekend. I'm planning on working up some switch lists for the City Job now that I have all the track repairs done. I'm hoping to host a small op session in February. This will also allow me to fine tune any freight cars and run everything before the session. I'll do all of this while listening to one of my podcasts and enjoying a cup of Earl Grey while the snow falls outside. So how about you? what do you have planned for the weekend? The post we are seeing with progress certainly is inspiring so let's keep it up. We'll come back on Monday the 24th to see how we all have progressed. Until then, have a great weekend, be safe, stay healthy and as always... High Greens!
Hey Y'all - TGIF Well, this weekend marks a mile stone in my Wife and my life -- tomorrow is our 40th wedding anniversary. What a saint she is - putting up with me and my "toys" for all these years (As well as all of my other shenanigans). So, I doubt I will be MRRing this weekend. As it should be. Y'all have a spectacular weekend, -- See Y'all on the other side Wolf
Happy weekend. We get snow starting late this afternoon and going into the early morning. Just plan on watching basketball and working in the train room. This weekend the plans are for Saturday: Working on the "Jackson River" gorge at the front of the layout and begin filling in scenery. First order of business will be putting in the wing walls to all 4 bridge abutments, getting them painted, weathered, and cut to to fit. Then hot gluing in cardboard strips for scenery base. Time allowing, I'll begin to put down some plaster cloth. Sunday: Continue w/ the scenery at the gorge. Would also like to do more for the new bridges I am building for separate scene in Albemarle City. Time permitting, clean up my hideously, messy work shop. Stay warm all! Here's a shot of the Jackson River gorge "before". We'll see how different it is on Monday, right now I have no clue.
While many of you are dealing with real winter weather, spring is already showing it's first signs here with a few blossoms on some of the trees. As we have not had any more rain for over a week now things are dry enough for yard work season to begin. It's still cold enough for me to be using my little dish heater in the train room and I will be continuing work on the Carlin control panel. Am now wiring it up with 34 connections to the layout. If nothing goes wrong I hope to have this finished and installed on the layout this weekend, we'll see.
Well my weekend is screwed! Another late train. However I have two vacation.m days I have taken Monday and Tuesday so it has been extended. I hope to get some work done on the two new modules I built last weekend. I need them operational by the 10th. I also will have all the supplies needed for the deer farm. Other than that I will be doing all module work. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Congratulations on 40 years Wolf! That's just awesome! No trains for me this weekend. My son earned hi Eagle rank back in November and we are hosting his Court of Honor Saturday afternoon. That will really consume the better part of the day. The wife has other plans for us on Sunday plus I have to get ready for a trip this coming week. Hope you all have a great weekend!
Yep. Certainly great progress noted above. I have completed ten running gear assemblies. My dual rod flaring tool was a big help. However, I am going to need to adjust a number of coupler hooks. I is always something on The Very Small Railroad. Next will be end frames and side sheets as well as slope sheets and more! All be well and have as good a weekend as possible.
@BNSF FAN - congrats to your son. @SP-Wolf - congrats on your anniversary! We have hard freezes forecast tonight and tomorrow night, so yesterday I started covering plants and securing outside spigots. I'll make a tour before sundown and make sure its all secure. Then maybe train time, maybe not.
I finally have fully limited access to the layout so: I hope to get the Main Line running again. Hope to plan / begin more hills. Hope to get out all of my scrap boxes so i can find my first 'N Scale' cars.
We have a Christmas tree to undecorated. We also have a new puppy to train. On the layout there is roadbed to placed and if time permits to be glued down along with track. Some roadbed material I need is supposed to be delivered today and it is I can possibly finish the roadbed. On the workbench I have a bunch of cars to tune up by changing couplers to Kadees, wheels to metal, and adding screws to hold on coupler clips and trucks. Congratulations Wolfgang!
I’ve been bitten by the “build new layout” bug. It itches really bad and this is the second weekend I’m trying to scratch it. I’ve got room for a shelf above my 2’x5’ layout. I could stretch it along that wall above a small bookshelf and my wife’s piano-about 12’ 9”. It’s 26” deep on one end and 31” deep on the other, so I could go out about a foot deep or reasonably along the shelf and then bend at each corner about 2’. Still sketching and erasing. Not sure if I will complete anything. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Just received a package with more Unitrack for my coming mini-T-Trak empire. Have yet another idea, so might need to order a small bit more. Additional thinking coming, over the weekend.....
Finally got in on Saturday, Friday was a busy day with having to work etc. And with my wife gone to Pasadena for our grandchilds birthday I am taking care of the pets. Friday night was bowling and not much else was done railroad wise. Saturday, we had our monthly meeting this morning and some bullshit sessions on various topics, convinced the operations guru to set up another operating session on the club layout next month. Later today I hope to paint a boxcar and continue building another PC&F R70-20 Reefer that will be painted in a PFE scheme. Also hope to do some decaling on a couple of cars if I can find the decals, still looking for stuff after moving 3 years ago. Sunday, more of the same with Laundry and a trip to Costco thrown in, then to the airport to pickup my wife, hope it doesn't snow too much during the night. Rick Jesionowski
Thinking is both dangerous and expensive, just look at the modules I’ve built, building, and want to build. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Thanks to the winter weather I managed to get a few hours on the layout. If all goes well, I hope to get an hour or two in today, before the Divisional round games. Bucs/Rams doesn't interest me much, but no way I'm missing the headliner. I hope to have some more scenery done and post updates on Monday. Enjoy the rest of your weekend, everyone. GO BILLS!
Thanks to the winter weather I managed to get a few hours on the layout. If all goes well, I hope to get an hour or two in today, before the Divisional round games. Bucs/Rams doesn't interest me much, but no way I'm missing the headliner. I hope to have some more scenery done and post updates on Monday. Enjoy the rest of your weekend, everyone. GO BILLS!
