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Good Morning All: It's was a good Saturday, I got out the air brush and painted my turntable. The pit is aged concrete and the bridge is SP Lark dark grey, should have been light Lark grey as it would show more detail, but that's what I bought so that's what I used. I can still smell the paint so I can't put the india ink wash on it yet. Then I'm going to put a few tires in the pit and put in some grass and weeds. I painted the inside of the handrail dull light grey and the outside is grimmy black, where it was pained by someone that didn't want to lean over the railing. It looks like it was painted white and then got crud on it. It took longer to paint the 180 pit ties then it did to paint the whole pit. I cut half the bristles off the brush before painting the rust. Ya gotta love Frgies better half, Lisa. She sent me an e-mail to tell me that the "pink panther" arrived and wanted to know if I wanted her to wrap it in pink paper. While were're on pink, I'm going to take some pictures today and let ya'll see what the postman delivered. The birds are have a "feeding frenzie" now that I popped another squirrel this morning. We've had Cardinals, Robins, Doves, and the lowley sparrows. They have been interesting to watch. Brian: Are you in Nearly invisable or Norriable Oversized, I forgot. I looked at your track plans today and wondered wich one you were leaning to. Your bridges are over a curve that is very close to the upper track and that might make your bridge very long. You might consider a mountain instead. That's what I had to do. Also, if you you make the yard a ladder you'll increase the lenght of the two sidings one car each. That doesn't sound like much but believe me IT IS. Ryan: You haven't answered Ed's question about the "letter to the editor" and enquiring minds want to know. Ed: I understand plaster and cardboard, not foam. The way you guys are talking about the vacuum and the mess - why bother? The plaster cloth is pretty easy. Do the pink sox have spring training camp in Mexico? Your layout pictures are looking good. Luct: I've been using cork since I quit using tru-scale milled roadbed and wouldn't think about anything else. It is so easy. I just white glue it to the 3/4" plywood, sand the top and lay track. I use just enough spikes to hold the track until ballasting and then the ballast glue holds everything. I drill holes outside the rail for the spikes and that way you don't see the nail heads, also code 83 doesn't have the nail holes already through the ties Fergie: Before you remove those ties off the plan be sure and glue the stringers to them so the radius is right. By the way, thanks for the copies on the trestles, I see a solution to the pier foundation, just put a 12" X 12" horizonally under the piers and have that rest on a large concrete foundation and that gives me a flat surface to build to. You might know that the minute it's in print, you see something different. The article says "no bents in the flow of water" - safety reasons. The trestle that I went and measured a couple of weeks ago had a bent right in the middle of the water flow. John: I'm very impressed with the progress on the MT. I wish we were comming up their again. How are the DCC thoughts comming? Flip: I'm really glad that Deb is doing well and we'll keep her in our prayers for the up comming operation. I received the pictures, I like them. What about the left hand end or is it covered with all of the stuff that was on the right hand end. I know about that picture taking. What is the rolled up awning (?) on the wall over the layout - is that a dust cover? Ya'll have a blessed day and remember SANTA FE ALL THE WAY Bob
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