Jimmy, Nice work on the logging truck, very effective weatheirng.
George, An impressively big industry.
Mel, That fellow must be in management. No hard hat, no safety specs? [;)] Looks ready to go, though.
Ed, Lots of atmosphere in that pic.
Most of what I did this week wasn’t very photogenic, entering the loco info for about 75 units into my new build of JMRI after my Raspberry Pi decided to quit talking to me.
The big modeling project wasn’t very much, but it fixed an irritating problem I’d been putting off dealing with for several years. At some point, the nose door on my PA went missing. I searched everywhere, including videoing the hidden track both ways in hopes of spotting it. No dice.
After looking over prototype pics, it looked more doable to hack a door than I thought. The headlight in the door is simply recessed into a plain opening and otherwise lacked in detail. I needed to modify the funky lighted plastic chunk that originally fed the headlight, plus the lighted numberboards. This went OK, as the numberboards ere OK without lighting, but to retain the structural integrity I couldn’t put a LED exactly where it was before, but a little lower. That meant the light opening in the door would cut off the top of the 4-stripes. My paint wasn’t an exact match either, but looked OK. Cheaper than a new shell, used or not. I cut the pieces needed to fix the stripes from a Microscale decal sheet. Although not a perfect match, pretty close. Looks dignified enough to me up close.
Back up 3’ or so and it’s good to see it roilling off some miles with the somewhat reduced consist of the fall Houston-Portland Zephyr as it passes Cascade Falls.
THe JMRI data entry and testing task led to another pic in the Monon in the Mountains collection
on Flickr
