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It's raining like crazy, with scary sounding boomers in the distance heading this way. Boy do we need rain ! And, do I need to get my erosion control in. Don't want to see my basement shop and model rr room w/ my wife's house on top of it, slide down into my other building lot next door. What a great outdoor large scale opportunity exists on that lot - all hilly and rugged and heavily treed. No - never mind - stop -STOP ! - I've got more on my plate than I need already. . .Anybody want to buy my G-scale and take away my temptation? It's a lot of work to construct a well equipped woodworking shop from scratch, and that will keep me busy for the foreseeable future, delaying the building of my 'dream' layout - the one I dreamed about all these years, and finally have the space (and most of the rolling stock, structures, scenic details, vehicles, etc. I need to flesh it out). Only problem is that I enjoy buying more stuff, and I'm reaching a point where I will need to sell stuff to justify (to the wife, not to me just yet) that I need more new stuff. Does anyone else experience this side-effect of Model railroading? I also model scale hot rods, custom cars, and race cars and have boxes and boxes of that stuff. And then there's the ship and plane models. . . Believe it's time to run some ads & hit some swap meets to thin out my collections. I used to build full size hot rods - '34 Fords, a '40 Ford, a '40 Huppmobile, and even a heavily modified autocross/show turbo '65 Corvair. I gave that up several years ago, because it was consuming so much time and money that I had neglected my other hobbies, and it was just to expensive to participate in, if I wanted to do anything else. Now my wife wants to get a '50s weekend cruiser to go to all the car shows in the area. It's me saying "no" to that project, for I can never leave well enough alone, and have to restore everything better than new, and modify this and that along the way. Speaking of being old at 42, my daughter is 36 and will make me a grand father for the third time next month. I plan to visit her in San Jose in Sept and just happen to coordinate the trip w/ the National Narrow Gauge Convention there at the same time. I also plan to visit the Roaring Camp & Big Trees RR in the nearby Santa Cruz Mtns, a really neat 3' narrow gauge w/ Shays, small industrial diesels, and other steam. I havent' been there in years, and look forward to visiting it again. It is right on the route of the old South Pacific Coast branchline of the Espee, one of the most modelable (new word?) railroads on the west coast. It ran from Oakland on the SF Bay thru San Jose and Los Gatos over the Santa Cruz Mtns to Santa Cruz on the Pacific. I have hiked the entire route from Los gatos to the ocean in the past, and it is spectacular. Frankly, it keeps tugging at me to model it, and I have drawn and redrawn many track plans depicting portions of it. I need to get it out of my system, once and for all. Wish I could model both it and L&N's "Hook & Eye Line", which is slowly being designed, as I gather more info about the prototype. Tom - I'd like to see what you've done on your Murphy Branch (Southern) some day, since the "Hook & Eye" interchanged w/ it at Murphy, especially if the Southern ever needs to divert traffic over the Murphy Branch and onto the L&N's "Hook & Eye Line" due to washouts, as it had to years ago ! Jim - hope your job situation proposal works out for you. Ron - how's the baby and your sleep? Fergie- my Dad lived in St. John's on the Bay Of Fundy as a young child, and used to fascinate me with stories of the extreme tidal shifts he observed - of ships resting in the mud, until the tide came back in and refloated them so they could set out to sea. At first, I thought he was telling tall tales, as he liked to on many an occasion, but after seeing it in National Geographic, I was a believer, and his credibility was restored ! Anybody remember looking at National Geographic - usually our first 'girlie magazine' - when we were kids ? Better get off of here and get something accomplished today. Another muggy day in Georgia, but there's lots to do. Have a great day everybody. BILL
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