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Good Morning All: It's a nice day and I'm in a good mood. My TT is looking good and just about ready for paint. I haven't gotten anymore track laid as the mess is to big to move to lay track. Mrs. "T" came upstairs yesterday and said "my goodness, how are you going to run trains, it's a mess?" I explaned to her that I had a work space cleaned off so I could work on the TT and right now that was all that I needed. I'm also laying out the roundhouse area and got the floor glued together and now it's time to "mortor" the walls. I found that grimmy black works wonders and when I rub the wet paint with a piece of toilet paper it leaves the bricks and the mortor a nice shade of black. Tom: How is Shawna doing? This is a terriable (SP) way to enjoy the referbing of her room. Well I'm ready to fire up the "paint booth". Mine is the same as yours - a cardboard box sitting outside the garage, with the wind blowing away from the house. Fergie, John, and Dickiee can just wait for an oppertunity like this in the fall, winter, and spring. I can paint three and one half seasons a year. Ed: I know - you can paint four seasons a year, but then do you have four seasons a year. Except for Christmas do you have a winter? Fergie: I went on eBay after our phone conversation and their were no Chief's listed. It may be a week or two so get Lisa primed. I think I'll e-mail Gadget Tom and see what he'll do. I bough one of my Chiefs from him. The advantage of the Chief over the Empire Builder is the Chief has it's own programing connection that can be hooked up all of the time. It will handle 120 locos as compared to 22 for the EB. It will also give you feedback to the throttle if the throttle will do it. The quanity of locomotive handling is moot, even for club layouts, but the other two options are worth the extra price. Just take my word, now feedback doesn't mean anything but it will later on. Is your rock suface thick brown craft paper? If so, are you just going to spray or paint it over with a solution of glue and water for a foundation base? Jim: It'll take you a couple of days to get used to day work and it'll feel strange getting home in the daylight, but it'll be nice. At least you know that you've got days until the end of the year. I like some of the slogans that you have posted, they're good. Paul: For some reason I thought you were retired, now I read a thread about you going to work - what do you do? And where? Do you drive into cow town? (For the non-Texans that's Ft. Worth.) The stock yards used to be humongous and Swift and Armour had their largest slaugher houses in FW. Of course their were a lot of smaller slaughter houses also. I'm at work so let me get to work. Ya'll have a blessed day and remember SANTA FE ALL THE WAY Bob
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