Made some small progress yesterday

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So due to things like a kitchen remodfel, work and general life interuptions, I finally got to spend a little time on my layout.

It’s been about 3 months since I’ve touched it.

I spent a couple hours sweeping the basement and clearing off the benchwork from the accumulated debris and stuff that seems to get piled on it, put a lock on the trainroom door to prevent that in the future.

Then I sorted through my rolling stock, happily discovered that I had more stuff ready for the track than originally thought, about 100 pc rather than the 50 or so I thought was ready. I have about 30 hoppers ready for ore service and about 25 more kits to go. And about another 75 freight cars that need couplers and wheelsets installed.

So I fired up ol faithful (Atlas U23B) and hooked a 45 car train to it. It did better than I thought it would, almost pulled the whole thing up the 1.5% curving grade on the mainline. Actually that’s quite good as I planned on running at most 30 car trains.

Did find a couple cars with derailment problems and ca ouple with coupler problems. But overall I’m pleased with the performance so far.

Trackwork isn’t causing too many problems either, a couple uneven benchwork joints caused uncoupling (no surprise, I knew they were there) but there appears to be one trouble spot on the mainline thats causing derailments. This is a bit troublesome, It’s a pretty complicated area of trackwork.

I knew I needed to run my cab bus and it showed, trying to couple a train from 25 feet away is a bit challengiing.

Still need to conect the feeders for the ore dock, then see if I can have a real excuse to buy a couple C628 to pull 30 cars up the 3% grade to the mainline.

Speaking of locos, I need to buy about 8 decoders and install them, but I can work with the 4 that are operable now.

So goals for the near future: levl out my benchwork, install cab bus, feders for ore dock, finish east e

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LION has not wroked on his layout all summer. Far too HOT in the train room for human habitation. (It used to be a classroom, you know) Looking forward to cooler weather and afternoons on the railroad.

ROAR

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I thought LIONs like the desert?

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[:-^]

Br. Elias,

You should ask for a transfer to a Monastery in Mexico where it would be permitted for you to have a Siesta in the afternoon and then work on the layout through the night after Vespers. What say you Brother ? or maybe you could do that right there. Does that class room cool off in the evening/night hours ? Maybe you should sneak out after lights out and see. I hate to see you loose so much layout time during the summer.

Johnboy out… All this typing has made me think it is time for an afternoon snooze. (Siesta)

NB. Good name for a southern layout eh ? SIESTA & SOUTHERN [tup][swg][tup]

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Lion its probably no hotter than the real subway in the summer

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