My weekend consisted of spraying primer onto one Bachmann Spectrum Dash 8 and then painting my first base color (white) so I can spray yellow on. Other than that not much train wise…
What did you modeling wise?
Sifted dirt for Lou Sassi’s scenery method.
Bought two #6 turnouts for the only passing siding on my haven’t even settled on a tack plan layout. Collected some more cardboard to cut down. Splashed around in the pool. Read the ads in September’s MR. Didn’t buy anything. Did some laundry. Drove to NJ. Sat at computer and typed this stuff.
Convinced the guy who bought my old layout to sell it back to me for less dollars than he paid.
You sold your layout and then bought it back for a profit?! [(-D]
ROFLMA!!!
Meanwhile, my wife and her father are watching the Godfather in the background here. Seems somehow fitting.
I got to work on making a river that goes under the some tracks. so far so good, but i still got to let the “water” stuff to dry
I worked on the rock retaining wall and tunnel portal that leads into the subway tunnel on the back side of the layout. Up front, I did a bit of work on the coal hopper dump track at Motley Fuels (see Weekend Photo Fun for pictures.) I’m still planning the overall site plan for this coal-and-oil distributer, so progress is slow. Later on, I plugged the throttle into one of the out-of-the-way outlets, and just ran trains around so I could watch them from a different angle than I usually do.
Hung wallpaper for the CFO , not as much fun as working on the layout.
I participated in the Pacific Northwest Region convention. I gave a clinic on how I operate my Siskiyou Line layout (the powerpoint is available as a download on my web site). I hosted an op session on my layout, and we ran using prototype practices with a dispatcher, track warrants and so on. I even had Tom Dill on the layout running trains (Tom is the author of many railroad books, including SP in Oregon among others).
Then on Saturday, I hosted an open house and we had a constant stream of visitors through the layout from 9 am to 5 pm. I and one of my regulars ran trains all day long on my layout. What fun! It’s been a while since I ran trains all day long on the layout!
And to top it off, the layout ran very well after some serious maintenance work … the layout’s been in operation for 8 years and I’ve never taken it down for serious maintenance until now. I did lots of maintenance on turnouts, and I disassembled all the locos and did a major tuneup. It made a huge difference in performance.
Had to work ALL weekend. 8:30 am to 10:30 pm
I need a day off.
Spacemouse thats a pretty long day. I guess you didn’t enjoy the weekend very much Maybe next weekend. Mike
Well, I spent part of Saturday at work, then went over to my club at 6:00pm. Once I got there, I ignored our Chief Engineer (he’s trying to get my friend, the Electrical Chairman, fired), and went to work wiring up my newly designed PS(One) circuit breaker panel for our latest BDL168 block detector installation. After soldering away, I mounted said breaker panel over the new BDL168 that was already on the layout.
While I was doing that, a couple guys were messing around with their latest aquistions, new Athearn SD45’s (I think) with sound. Naturally, since they had MRC sound decoders, they could not be programmed with Digitrax, either on the main or on the programming track using any of the 4 modes that Digtrax offers (Page, Physical Register, Direct, Ops). That took an hour of me messing around as they had 4 units between them and both of them are not exactly DCC friendly, if you know what I mean. I got one to take a programmed address, but that’s it (and don’t even ask me how as I don’t know why that one worked).
By the time I installed the PS(One) panel, it was 10:00pm, so I decided to go home and surf the 'net.
Sunday, I got up late, made up the paperwork for my own layout operations (typing 96 waybills this week), and headed over to my layout with my father. Since our third operator called in sick, it was just the two of us to run everything. Took us a little over 2 hours.
Went home, had supper, fixed my shed door (116 year old shed), and zoned out the rest of the day.
Paul A. Cutler III
Weather Or No Go New Haven
Friday night was train club. Then over the weekend I cleaned out the hair that was blocking electrical contact from the front trucks of 2 of my Atlas. Still one more to do. Had ‘other’ things to do so that was it. I just love that cascade green (for some reason)
bought a suv, mowed, weeded,and drew up plans for another kit-bash using lifelike supplyhouses, these kits are great for this, lots of extra stuff, just don’t look at the box, it’s ugly…
Uh, hair?
Absolutely nothing other than watch Jimmy Johnson win the Brickyard 400
Laid track on my new penisul section
ran trains when completed
still have to insert ties where the ends were clipped off and mount switch machines
I HOPE NOW YOU’LL GET BACK TO WORK ON THAT SCENERY VIDEO!!! GRRRR!!!
[;)]
I did a tad bit of work on the behemoth helix, and Saturday night one of my wife’s grand-nephews (gawd, that makes me seem old, doesn’t it?) spent the night. We ran trains for an hour or so, and he got a real kick out of it!
Other than that I did prep work for painting the house, mowed the lawn, that kind of stuff, [:(]