Ok it a fall like day up here in Nrth Dakota . So what do u have planned for this fall and winter on you model railroad. Me i found a laoyout im intrested just tring to figure out how to buil it in modules.
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I’m using the Fall weather to finish some painting projects; mainly an old Lionel train. The rest of the stuff I do can be done pretty much year round.
On the Maine coast for the past 2 days, temperatures have been in the high 80s, but I still am raking. Layout plans continue as before, just need to pay for it!
here in toronto it’s very warm I washed and waxed the car then watched trains on the cn main line near my house. Life couldn’t be better long weekend and trains! rambo1…
The weather here has been just delightful lately and should stay that way a couple more days. Not the type of weather to spend in the house, until the sun goes down (as does the temperature).
In the outside world I am trying to finish up haying, some of it second cut, some third. Will put it into round bales. They’d be easy to model, but they don’t match my era.
When it does get dark I usually check these forums. If I have enough energy left to go to the workbench I am apt to watch sports and make trees. I have some structures I’d like to put together too. There is also some work on the scenery and adding figures to the layout that wouldn’t take too long.
If the haying ever gets done I should go out and collect some golden rod, twigs and check the sedum to see when to harvest it.
Have fun,
Richard
Up until recently I belonged to a model railroad club that had N scale and HO scale layouts. The club turned into a dictatorship, so I left. I can run my HO scale equipment on my home layout, but I’ve got nothing to run my N scale equipment on. So some time this winter I think I’ll start building a small N scale layout about the size of a coffee table. I bought a bunch of buildings, vehicles, and track over the summer and all I need is some wood, some scenic materials, some figures, and a few other little details to get started. My N scale equipment is mid-1950s era, with mostly first generation diesels and a couple of steam locomotives.
There is definitely a nip in the air inthe early AM.
THere are definitely colored leaves showing up.
It’s : run the furnace in the AM to take the chill off, and run the A/c in the afternoon eveing to take the heat away.
Its wear a jacket in the AM and possibly warm the car a bit to get rid of the frost on the windows, and shed a sweater inteh afternoon.
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YUP, I’D say that all means FALL is here to STAY!!
I plan to further dismantle what was once m y main layout in hopes of building bigger, and to attend to the under thetree layout -mainly paint it white to start the “snow simulation” and make My Other Half {MOH} happy.MOH gets to run Nscale stuff under the tree fromthe time we put it up TG weekend til Rusisian Orthodox Christmas in January. Now if some nice days hold out for me to paint it outside!
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It was and still is a great long weekend. Had the t-tops off the Trans Am and just cruised around Saturday, drank some beers and got a bit of a sun burn Sunday. Today will probably bring more of the same. Those Coors Light Tall Boys are just screaming my name, lolol.
Hi!
Well, yesterday we had an extremely unusual weather event here in the north Houston area - it rained pretty much all day. Temps got to the mid 70s, a far cry from the 90s and 100s we have had the previous 4 plus months. Of course that is all temporary and we will be in the high 80s, low 90s later this week.
But, fall (as we know it down here) is in the air, and my MR instincts are picking up. Actually, they worked all summer - slowly building structures - but now the intensity is increasing.
Having been born in Chicago and living there until I was 23, I certainly remember MR fever hitting about now, keeping me occupied with the Lionel and later on HO trains for the long winters. My goodness, the hobby was sure a lifesaver back then - and it still is to me.
I will slowly piddly fart around with scenicing one section of the layout. Temps have been in the 70’s and 80’s here in East Tennessee during the days. Some color is starting to pop.
Happy Thanksgiving to our friends in the Great White North eh.
(see Galaxy, if you set your trains up now MOH could run them for another month and half longer! LOL).
Ran into a couple of Canadians at the Tennessee / Georgia football game on Saturday. They started joking about “crushing peoples heads” and couldn’t believe it when I told them I knew it was a Kids in the Hall series of skits.
Beautiful temperatures here on the South Carolina coast. We’ve got some much-needed rain moving up from Florida, but it looks to continue as “open window and no heat or AC” time. In a first for me, I saw a small octopus washed up on the beach late last week. Still in shorts here…
I finished the summer project of assembling ten HO vehicle kits (mostly Jordan and SS Ltd). I’ve some pennies saved up and hope to make the pilgrimage up to the Great Scale Model Train Show in Timonium, Maryland at the end of the month. I’ll be making some plans and reviewing some catalogs and websites to develop a good shopping list for that trip. Weather permitting, I hope to go on up to Strasburg, PA on the Sunday after the train show - haven’t been there to ride behind steam in 20 years.
I’m starting some prep work for what I think will be the big winter project of assembling that Keystone sawmill kit (with interior). I’m working on the log dump spur this week, and then need to get a HO crew in there to dig out where the log pond will go.
Bill
Well, out here in the Central Valley of SunnyCal we were having our usual late summer heat wave (temps in the high 90’s low 100’s) up until about a week ago, then we got an Alaskan Surprise that left snow on the higher Sierra peaks and a pretty fair dumping of rain down here in the Valley. In fact, Boreal Ridge, up at Donner Summit is thinking of opening their ski runs at the end of the month(!).
So right now we’re settling into Fall. Unfortunately fall and winter means not so much work on the garage empire–I do most of my MR’ing during the summer–. And besides, I’m still teaching, so all I have time for is the occasional weekend on the layout. I’ve still got to move the Deer Creek station, tear out an un-needed crossover between the #1 and #2 mainlines in the yard, put in a highway overpass–re-doing the freight yard this summer isolated the station at Deer Creek from vehicle access (Yah, plan AHEAD, Tom!!).
So, at least when I get time, I’ve got projects staring me in the face.
And no, converting 56 brass steamers to DCC is NOT one of the projects [:P]
Tom
Fall is definitely in the air here in Montana with shorter days and falling leaves that need raking. I’ve covered up our air conditioner unit, blown out the sprinkler system lines, got the snow blower tuned up and running, and have still found some time to work on the model railroad. However, at this time of the year I don’t do any painting as my “fume hood” is a strong wind blowing outside and it is just too cold for any outside painting.
Right now I’m ballasting, laying some more plaster cloth, making plaster rocks from rubber molds and “planting” more trees. I plan on being real busy this winter working on more scenery, wiring, and perhaps working on a craftsman wood kit.
This is a great hobby, keeps me very busy and away from the TV.
Wayne
Fall is just beginning. A few leaves are turning, the days are mostly in the 70’s, night mostly in the 50’s. One more lawn mowing (I hope) and then it’s fully Fall.
Work on the layout continues slowly. Still trying to get everything organized from the move last year. But I may take a few days off and just go enjoy the weather.
Enjoy
Paul
Rain today, after several beaut’s. So hauled out this baby. My sister gave it to me for Christmas two years ago and keeps asking when it is going to show up on the layout. So it is on the top of the list for fall.
Day#1. Read the instructions.
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I did not know that octopus’s wore shorts. Which hip pocket do they keep their wallet in ?. LOL. !
Otto