General Discussion (Model Railroader)

 Got some more work done on the roundhouse, including the roof.






But the highlight of the week was the Conrail Historical Society's Rail B Q up in Marysville.  I was able to grab an old friend and his son for a day trains and good food.


Here's Ed Kapuscinski with his notorious creation... "The Bacon Explosion"


Lee

Dave Vollmer:

Terry, that's an option. Not so much the mirror (seems kinda cliche to me) but the placement of the overpass. But if you've ever railfanned from the real Belle Vista Dr bridge or I81 bridge at Enola, the thrill is enjoying train action from both directions. Of course, I have the bridge on the wrong side of the diesel house for Enola, but it's "proto-lanced."

 

I'd say you've captured the flavor quite well...

And I see you used an older style bridge to work with your steam era ops... even though the interstate bridge didn't appear until long after the last fires were dropped.  Good compromise.

Lee

Lee, the roundhouse is looking spectacular!  Extra fine work there!  (BTW, so thats what Ed looks like, HUH?  I didn't know you knew him.  I've talked via Email with him a couple times over the years, but I think thats the first I've seen of him.  Love his layout!)  Anyways, BIG props for the roundhouse!

jacon12:

 I have something a little different this week for WPF.  I have a home layout but I'm also a member of a modular model rr club and we meet at different members homes.  Below is a photo of one of our group who brought along is pet parrot to my house and another picture of the 'business" meeting in progress.

Jarrell

This is giving me ideas. I'm sure once I have something up the neighbors would let me borrow their tarantula for a few hours to make a cheap sci-horror for you tube. She's a cool spider. She comes when she's called The last time I had her she was outside and she was must have been getting chilly cause she snuggled up my cheek and hung their feeling my skin move when I talked. The only problem is it wouldn't be a very scary movie. I don't think that little tarantula has an agressive strand of DNA in her entire body. She's not exactly small either, she covered my hand pretty easily when she was crawling on me. It tickled