Get your engines and rolling stock ,cleaned ,greased and oiled where needed.
spring is just around the corner. BE READY TO GO. i have been viewing, not replying, but still here, my engines and rolling stock are almost ready.
Ben, You really are an optomist[:D] I count on spring not arriving until Mother’s Day or around there of. It seems this is when the weather gets consistant… oh I almost forgot I’m not aloud to use the word consistant when refering to the weather in Ohio.
I just wish I had something other than 3 pieces of rolling stock to maintenance .
Good luck to those with fleets of stuff[:)]
Hi Ben,
Great to hear from you. Spring is still a waaaaaaays away for us. Maybe March. Usually April. Still rolling inside here. Later eh…Brian.
Hey Ben . Was out in the backyard today running trains . Weather was in the 40’s and got the LGB track cleaning loco out . I ran a four car freight train and pulled it several loco’s with sound systems to keep them charged up . I haven’t stopped running except for a few week span that the snow was frozen over the railroad .
Matt,
I used to have your problem. You spend hours building a box car and then at the end you say: Great, I got a wagon, but I don’t want to go through all that again just to get another one.
Then I started building production line style. When you cut a piece of wood for your boxcar, don’t just cut one, cut two or three (or more) at the same time. It only takes a few seconds more since most of the time is spent getting the tools out and working out HOW you are going to do it, not the actual job itself.
Then when you start assembling them do the same, repeat the same step on the other wagons at the same time.
When you finally finish you will have two or three or more boxcars to show for you efforts, but it will have taken only a fraction longer (and certianly not twice as long) to build them.
Now I always make 2 or more copies when I am building wagons.
Glen.
Hey Glen,
I learned that the hard way! Well said. It only takes a bit more time to cut for two or three as opposed to one. Now what to do with the other five grain elevators I made?! [:D] [:o)] Later eh…Brian.
Brian,
offer them for sale (don’t forget to post scale), then you can use the proceeds to buy new motive power, or get some trinket for mama so she won’t kick your trains out of the kitchen and will decide that there is some value in your playing with trains!
Rocky, that’s how I built them. Although just before completion one turned into a reefer[:D]
Benny, you know i can’t reply to this thread. I was out clearing snow tonight.
Marty,
Where’s the pictures of the snow clearing?
Jack
Marty
Some of my train tracks are still snow covered to ,but i figured its time to do the maintenance. I have been running them on my inside track. ben
Any way why should i worry about spring, it will be Autumn here in about 18 days but it will still be like summer everywhere else. No Australian native trees lose their leaves in winter they are all evergreens, so we really don’t have a winter that you would recognise.
The birds do not fly south or north for the winter, they just sit around doing nothing like the rest of us. Although we do have an odd group of Pelicans (about 4,000) that fly east for the summer during el Nino
Rgds ian
Ian,
Interesting comments consisting of little known facts, a veritable education in a nutshell!
Could a large part of that be caused by the situation of having your own continent in your own corner of the world (apart from NZ, that is!)?
I would assume that the vast ocean areas surrounding you would have an effect on the avian migration, just never thought of it until you mentioned it!
Also, the native trees being evergreen is a new concept to me; never even heard it mentioned by the Aussie crews on ships, or the crews on ships that traded there on a regular basis. Can’t recall having read about it either!
Who says one can’t get an education from Garden Railroading?
Capt B,
I only wish I had made five more! One was a tremendous amount of work when it came to the planking. I do plan to build another this year. I like the idea of two side by side…shows a thriving community. The superstructure only took a day to cut and build…it’s all the details! Later eh…Brian.
well it’s time to do you maintenance spring is almost here, I started with building a 3 ft bridge, which is to replaced a bad bridge and tighten the track screws and fill in lots of ballist, and do some painting of some small bridges that i have,today it was 48 * out their and no wind . it was a good GRR WORK DAY, …BEN[:)]
Ben, Way to beat the heat huh! I got to enjoy today a little. Replacing windows in a house built in the 1880’s. I beat the heat to though, they were on the third floor![:0]
[8D]
The sun was out in the south of England yesterday. Ran the trains. My GP9 had its first run out with sound system. What a difference. The neighbours have to get used to a new noise, A change from the Boeing 747s across the road. If its still nice at the weekend, might clean out the pond, Always a chaotic day.
Well, as most of you are off to bed, it`s 5.30 am here and I am off to work.
All the best
Ian P
Delaware mate;
I think it is really because Australia was part of the old Gwandanaland and it really has no real seasons that yoy would recognise. Just about all of our native trees are eucalypts and as such are evergreens. To the west of Sydney is the Blue Mountains and it is the hize from gases from millions of Eucalyptus trees that make them quite blue, particularly on a hot summer day.
As well all our native animals except for three are marsupials meaning they carry their young in a pouch.; ie no proper mamals at all. Two of those three are the strangest creatures on the planet; montreems meaning egg laying mamals. The Echidna looks like a small but friendly hedgehog and the other is the platypus. Acts like and has a tail a beaver; beak like a duck and reptililian skin and feet; lays reptilian eggs and suckles its young; strange huh.
The most controversial is the Dingo; thought to be a dog and companion to the aborigines, been here for only 5000 years instead of millions like the others, but not so. It was brought here many times by Maccassan fishermen and it is a variation of the Asian Wolf no one really knows how long it has been here due to its multiple entry but it came from Asia. Combination of a Dingo and an German Shepherd dog id is real bad news. It is now regarded as an introduced species.
The Dingo is thought to be the reason that several marsupials died out on the mainland and lived only in our island state Tasmania. ie The Tasmanian devil, Tasmanian Tiger etc.
Rgds Ian
After a very mild winter and lots of planning of what and where. I drove to the next closest town that may have some G trains the long time LHS there had 2 Bachmann passengers cars, a Bachmann Christmas street car, a USA Trains box car and a Little Critter starter set. The second place has been open 4 and 1/2 months had lots of new and used of most scales, A Bachmann Indy, an F series A-B set up, 12 assorted manufacturer’s pieces of rolling stock, some 8’ dia. track, some 5’ straight track and a 30 deg. crossing. but at least said he was going to be getting more stuff in. So I drove the 130 miles back home to be greeted by:
the stationary white spots are held in suspended animation from thier about straight left to right track they where making.
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Guess I’m gonna wait a bit longer.
Jack