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Good Morning All: It's a good week - not having anything to do. I've started working on my rock face on the side of the layout ALA John Allen but not all the way to the floor, just to the bottom of the fascia support. Phil: What happened to the ATSF 4-8-4 pulling a hot freight and the "description" that Walthers put out about the "gleaming flash of lightening across the desert" talking about the Super Chief. It did sell lots of passenger cars. "..and sharing good conversation see a NYC J4 at the head of the Commordore Vanderbilt pounding the diamonds and laying down a huge plume of smoke.." What is NYC? Need Your Concensis? Or are you talking about that small regional railroad in New York? Ha Ha Ha. I read someplace that the NYC lowered the tracks going into NY city to aleviate the congestion and realized that something was going to have to be done about the smoke as it was very obvious where the loco was and the polution was pretty bad. Vanderbilt decided that something had to be done and along came the electric locomotive, but it was only used in NY city in the beginning. Mo/Jim: Lynn Westcott wrote a book on model railroad bench construction (we cleaned the house up for Christmas company and I can't find it right now) and he tells about how to build a lightweight but strong table using "L" girder construction. He also uses 1X4's as layout supports. The beauty of this construction is you're not limited to any size goverend by a piece of wood (ie: 4X8 plywood). If you have the book, "A Realistic HO Layout for Beginners" this type construction is shown on page 10. That's a stupid question as your using a variation of his track plan. By not having plywood all over the top, you can have lakes as well as mountians, and they are both easy to do. This also makes the layout lighter. If you use masonite as a fascia, you don't even have to have a straight edge on the layout and you can make the lower right hand corner round, which will add and interesting touch. How long before table construction starts? I used his idea to build my layout and it's strong enought to do pull ups on. I can also sit on the layout and I weigh 210 #s. Tom used the same idea when building his layout and can attest to the strength and light weight of this construction. Lupo: What was wrong with Bar Mills "Wicked Wanda's"? Maybe too hard for someone to put together or couldn't afford it so they knock it. I've noticed that a lot of these threads are flamed by youngsters who apprently don't have anything else to do. One guy was knocking the BLI 4-8-4 about the color of the axle centers, they are unpainted NS. I sent him an E-mail and ask how many he owned, the answer was "none". I told him that when he got two of them like I had, then he'd have the right to knock, but until then SHUTUP. It seems like if the kids can't afford it or don't like it they think that everyone else is wrong. Well let me get off this soapbox and go "play" - got a lot of track testing to do today Ya'll have a blessed day and remember SANTA FE ALL THE WAY Bob
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