This past weekend covered a lot of the east in a snow storm. How are you copping with it? Can you work on your modeling? What are you doing?
I spent a couple hours today digging my way to the garage where my layout is and finished up a couple of small things after installing facia last week. I also have a modeling work bench in the house and started building the Central Valley Through Truss bridge on Friday, just as it started snowing. So during our snaow storm I was able to keep modeling.
So, what is your story? Inquiring minds want to know. [;)]
Well in NE IA we have had quite a bit so far, so all the shoveling is cutting into model time. One thing on the list is to go through the boxes of freight cars & inventory them, & sort them in to groups. Also it is a great time to work on many of the projects on the table & in the mind.
Copping ? I’m not going to touch that one ! ! Just had another Nor’ easter 100km/hr winds, rain, sleet, more wind, lots of storm damage, massive shore erosion, many trees down and big power outages, haven’t seen the sun in a month, it’s damp, cold windy and miserable, welcome to the Maritimes. The definition of an Optimist in Canada, he’s the guy that scrapes all the ice from the windows of his car before he tries to start it.
It hardly ever snows in my neck of the woods,but we got some. I was a good model railroading inspiration. I model railroaded all day while watching it out of the window in the train room and the train room is off the den which allowed me to listen to the football games…perfect day. Luckily it didn’t stick just made things more wet.
Minnesota is about dug out from the last two. My layout is in the basement so I have had some extra time and built some bridges and planted some cactus. The probem is that the motohome is still half buried and I a looking forward to joining the AZ guys and building a couple of Lazer kits I got for Christmas. There will be some major shoveling yet to do.
Here in Minnesota, it is 12 degrees ABOVE zero! We have had something like 31+" of snow in December(a new record). Me and the snow blower are becoming ‘one’…
This is always model railroad weather and I have been sorting stuff for the next big flea market(La Crosse ‘Rail Sale’ in January). It is a time to inventory what I have and order materials I will need to complete a few projects on the layout.
With retirement looming next year - I want to get this layout finished!
Sitting here in the Chicago area, it is hard to complain about snow considering what the Northeast part of the country is going through. Our youngest daughter, husband and our grandson are up in Livingston New Jersey visiting his family. They just got 27 inches of snow. Hope they can get out and get home tomorrow as scheduled.
Now to complain. So far in December we have had 7 snowstorms here measuring 2 inches or more each time. Sick of shoveling already and it isn’t even January.
Great time, though, to head down to the basement and run the trains, build some new structures, and re-ballast some relocated track.
Living out on Cape Cod we got little snow but lots of wind. Power keeps blinking out every time I sit at the work bench. 80 mph wind gusts and frozen trees means lots of chainsaw work later.
WE have managed to avoid the lake effect snows that dumped so much on NYers in oter parts of the state.
We have managed to avoid the nor’easter that dumped so much snow on the east coast.
But we have had snow. 3 inches, then melts off some, then 3 inches, then melts off some, now it is starting to pile up to about 6 inches. S’possed to be 40-45 New years day, maybe some more melt off!
AS far as modeling we have a new board for under the treee we are planning out and will work on this summer to ready for next xmas season. A simple loop of HO and two loops of Nscale in a snowy scene.
I plan to tear apart my old small layout and make it a bit bigger for a better new one. THAt, too will be a summer project.
SO-we have been busy withthe new trains we got for for xmas!
5 degrees a little snow and very windy here, there are either drifts or bare spots. No problems except having to go out and feed the critters was a bit chilly.
Spent most of the day trying to find the surface of my computer desk. Lots of stuff sorted, still no desk in site.
Getting ready to go down and put in a dirt road crossing and paint the concrete highway. Will probably try to make a little more space available on the workbench if the TV isn’t making too much noise (it has a bad habit of being very noisey some nights, fine on others).
Will also walk in place for 20 min, since my 6’ wide, tractor mounted snowblower will do all that cold exercise for me. (It is chilly sitting on the open air seat and not moving much, so it has it’s disadvantages too.)
Pete: Where do you live on the Cape? I used to live in Marion and went to CCCC when it was in Hyannis (the Dark Ages).
Well for our first storm we picked the short straw and got a whopper! It’s hard to tell how much snow we got but I would say on the average somewhere’s in the neighborhood of 20 inches or so. There are drifts of 3 1/2 feet in some places around the house. Down at the end of the driveway where the State had been plowing all night, its about 4 feet deep. Thankfully the tractor loader took care of the situation.
I didn’t get any model railroading in today. I spent all day clearing the driveway and walks. I was able to get a tank car kit I’ve been working on decaled last night though, when the snow and wind were creating havoc. After spending all day doing snow removal, I’m tired. I’ll probably just peruse the forums for a while.
Three feet of snow drifted against my front door. Couldn’t get out there. Two feet against my back door but its a slider. No snow on the roof or my cars but near 20 inches on most of the driveway. Snowblower worked good. I did get to work on a section of my clubs DCC buss that i’m fabricating at my house.
NYC got sovked with 20" of snow and as usual no one cares about Queens so nothing as changed in this city in the last 50 years.
When it comes to raising taxes it’s the whole city but when it comes to doing anything all they know about is Manhattan. My street has yet see a snow plow and it more than 24 hours since the snow stopped falling .
So how am I copping? As best I can. Between watching TV (its all crap so don’t ask me what I am watching), working on my layout and eating theer really isn’r much I can do since I don’t have boots to wear and didn’t take the to gte a new pair this year.
