Bear,
Thanks for the weather report. Reading it helps some, given it’s to reach the mid-90s here today. The dew point last night around midnight here was 77 degrees, so yeah, we have a little humidity, too.[ip][st]
This week saw the benchwork go up for my new long-term project, the Cascade Branch. I’ll be tracking how things develop in this thread:
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/219241.aspx
Here’s the end of the line, the wye at Crater Lake:
Last night, the first train rolled into Purgatory:
I’m building the first bit of this project with odds and ends leftover from the main layout. Here’s a BK Enterprises HON3 #6 left turnout kit. I used some leftover FastTracks QuickSticks ties that my colleague Allen supplied. Given the layout height is fairly high, I pushed the standard gauge QuickSticks away from the viewer, then will trim them up later to look more HOn3-ish.[swg]. Once buried in ballast, it’ll look OK.
For those in Hotlanta,
Looking forward to reports from the NMRA Convention and the National Train Show.[:P]