So what are you guys doing this weekend? I am going up to Georgetown to ride on the narrow guage RR that they have up there. It is 3.5 miles and will take about 1.5 hours. I am really excited and will have some pics for you all next week.
I am also hoping to do some work on my N-Scale this weekend. Any way talk with you all later.
Curt
The HO scale modelers at the Boothbay Railway Village Museum in Maine meet Thursday evening, so our weekend was last night. We have designed a new around the walls layout with a center pennisula to replace our old donated layout. Last night we completed all the benchwork we could build without demolishing any of the old layout - that’s anout 1/4 of the total, and started laying out roadbed.
The museum will close in October and we have to keep the old layout open for display on weekends until then. Our goal is to have the benchwork completed and some trains running by the time the museum opens next spring. If there is anyone within driving distance of Boothbay, ME who is interested in helping with this project we would like to hear from you!
The museum web site: http://www.railwayvillage.org/. Click on the Model Railroad link to see the old layout. (I need to get that Photobucket for some up to date pictures.)
Contact e-mail: staff@railwayvillage.org
I’ve started putting together the closed “Scollay Square” station on my subway line. It’s a dead space in the tunnel that I’d been wondering how to finish up, and the idea of an old, closed station was kind of appealing. (At least I don’t have to light it.) I’m also scratchbuilding a small truck shed out of hydrocal rock wall castings and Campbell shingles. Once I can roof over the subway station, I can begin to put together the rest of the Motley Fuels coal company.
I’m moving all of my stuff from my storage unit into my in-laws garage in which we are staying with them, so it just means that my trains will be really barried but at least they will be closer to me.
Working on the house 
Probably no time for trains this weekend.
Hopefully going out to the club tomorrow and then going to work on my boxcar i’m weathering.
dekruif
I’ll be working on remotoring my Bachmann Lafeyette 4-2-0 steam engine. The original motor was working fine a couple months ago, and then just suddenly stopped. After taking the motor out, I found that windings on 2 of the 3 poles broke, and it was unfixable. The Mashima motor I bought today will hopefully last much, much longer, especially for what I payed for that little thing. The new motor isn’t skewed, but I feel absolutely no cogging when I turn the shaft. It’s very quiet, too.[:D]
Show season starting soon! Gotta get the trailer out, make sure the lights work, give her a coat of wax and air up the tires…Less than a month til Timonium!!![:D]
I’ll probably run trains!!!
I’m heading out to the East Broad Top to work with the volunteer restoration crew.
Well, after the yard, painting another coat on the hallway and a few other honey-do’s, I plan to start my scratchbuilding of the Sperry Flour Mill in Ogden Utah for my N scale ogden modules. Decided to use 0.03 styrene walls, 0.04 supports in the interior, a 3/16 punch for the window openings, and a combination of printing on clear plastic from my printer for windows and scrachbuilt frames. This all depends on if my latest styrene order comes in from Miromart…we’ll see. Hopefully will be able to do a little work on backdrop, but that might be pushing it.
To be fair my weekend started now. I removed the pad print from some Busch’s, and trident police vehicles and redoing them with my freelanced police decals. Then I am off to measuring and designing the Passanger car decals I need for the railroad, after that sometimelater Saturday I will be soldering some track that I thought was soldred and hopefully finish some more scenery in the yard.
Most of Saturday will be taken up at the Boeing Employees Model RR Club Swap Meet in St. Louis…I have a table there and will be selling and schmoozing from 8am until 3pm. Watch “New Yankee Workshop” and tape “Stargate SG1” for later viewing. Trains take the back seat from there on as Sunday morning will be occupied by playing synthesizers in the worship band at church, calling my parents in New Jersey and my son at college in Texas and putting the keyboard rig at home back together.
I have much to do but will take a mighty crack at it.
Train goal is to remount my turnout toggles on the new facia and add track diagrams, then run as many trains as we can.
Saturday mow the lawn, take 10 year old to soccer game and maybe have to referee.
Sunday we are meating the family to send off the oldest nephew on my wifes side to college.
Now that it has cooled a bit ( low 90’s-vs-100’s ) the little woman and I will spend some time in the spa after the kids hit the sack.
So I guess its not that much but I am afraid I won’t get enough of the train running in to satisfy.
Hammered the Walthers ADM Grain elevator together. Glue dries to-night. Still have a ways to go.
In the morning we solder wiring at the LHS’s layout.
Tomorrow night, painting shiny metal wheels black leaving the tread alone.
Sunday Church.
Sunday night, rest.
Working overtime saturday and sunday to buy more train stuff.
I’ll most likely do what I usually do on weekends. Run trains!
My first goal of the weekend has been met. I slept late. After lunch my plans include a trip to K.C. to visit two hobby shops and hunt up the train club downtown I keep hearing about. Then, it’s down to the basement to unpack some more train stuff still in boxes from the move.
For Sunday my plans include a partial days work with my fire and EMS folks while about 7,000 bikers mob the town for gas and eats. Once that’s over I’m imitating a rabbit. I’m diving back down in my burrow to play with the trains.
In all, it’s shaping up to be a fantastic weekend!