We have made lots of progress in the garage over the last couple of days. All the new cabinets and shelf units as well as my new tool chest/workbench are in place. I got all of the model boxes off of my workbench in the basement and moved them into a 36" x 18" x 72" cabinet in the garage. The cabinet is nearly full!
We still have a bunch of boxes and totes on the garage floor which have to be sorted through and the stuff moved into cabinets or onto the shelves.
One thing that surprised me is that there is a lot more space around the train table than I thought there would be. I'll have to go back and measure the garage again.
I'll post some photos once we get the boxes sorted out.
One thing that has made me happy is that the air conditioning in the garage works great!
Cheers!!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Good for you, Dave!
I'll be watching for those pictures.
I don't post often, but I do visit every week or so to follow a few threads, like this one.
Mark P.
Website: http://www.thecbandqinwyoming.comVideos: https://www.youtube.com/user/mabrunton
Our nephew Joe is coming back next weekend to help me better organize all of my rolling stock that is in boxes. He has already helped me get the huge stack of boxes off of my workbench, but we didn't sort them properly. Right now I have similar cars in both the garage cabinet and in a cupboard in the basement. The goal will be to gather all of the similar cars into one location either in the garage or in the basement. We also have to move the locomotives into a different cabinet with metal shelves because the combined weight of having them all on one particle board shelf is causing the shelf to sag.
We also have some more work to do in the garage. There is an area of pegboard that will be replaced with slat wall. I will have the contractor install the slat wall but I want to have Joe remove the pegboard. We are also going to do more drywall repairs, both of which hopefully will reduce the contractor's price. There is also a heavy cable that feeds the hot tub that the electrician who installed it decided it would be perfectly fine to run right down the middle of a wall. Hopefully we can make that look less obvious.
A little about Joe - he has been accepted into the Canadian Navy as a communications officer. His basic training starts Sept. 2nd. He has a university degree in communications and he speaks French so the navy was pretty happy to get him.
Great to hear of the progress! Also nice to know you are feeling somewhat better. Good news!
York1 John
Layout progress is on hold for a while. My red blood cell count is really low and it is falling rapidly. I am feeling very weak. Apparently there is internal bleeding. I will likely end up back in the hospital.
Ho hum,
We are and will be thinking of you Dave, just as we always do. All our hopes for a speedy recovery.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Thanks Brent,
Dave, I just read your latest post. Know that I am hoping and praying everything be OK.
I am currently lying on a gurney in a hallway in the emergency ward with IVs in both arms and three bags of various solutions plus a bag of blood flowing into me! I am feeling much better than when I came to the hospital 7 hours ago. I will see the internal medicine doctor in the morning. I have no idea how long I will be here.
Thanks John.
All I can say is WOW. Life changes in a moment when you get older, but dose it really or are we just more aware. I know nothing about internal bleeding and I know it must be scarry, wish you the best.
I had a trachyoscopy this morning and they found a number of spots in my stomach that were likely the source of the bleeding. They cauterized the spots so hopefully that cures the problem.
hon30critterI had a trachyoscopy this morning and they found a number of spots in my stomach that were likely the source of the bleeding.
Hopefully, you will bounce right back, Dave. I told you to stop eating those HO-scale rail spikes! N-scale might go through easier.
Hopefully they fixed the proublem.
I'm in the hospital for at least three more days. They want to make sure the problem is fixed and it will take that long for things to get back to normal.
I'm starting to get a little frustrated. The extended stay in the hospital has caused me to delay getting a quote from the drywall/electrical contractor. It has also delayed the progress on several other projects in the garage and in my workshop.
For example, I was in the midst of sorting my many, many parts. Currently the same part can be found in two or three different tightly packed boxes or drawers. Once I get all the rolling stock moved out to the garage I will be able to separate the parts into more specific smaller lots.
Got any old car kits you haven't built yet? Get your wife to bring them and some sandpaper and glue in so you can be productive on the MRR front. Or some weathering powders and a few cars to get done. Or a box of Kadees and cars that need to have the couplers changed out. You could build a Z-scale layout on your tray table.
Thinking of you Dave, keep up the good fight.
Hi Brent,
Great idea, except I don't have a tray table. I have to sit in my wheelchair with my dinner tray on the bed. One has to make do with what one has.
Some good news for a change!
I was let out of the hospital three days ahead of schedule. They had planned on keeping me for observation to make sure all my vitals were acceptable. However, the numbers on Saturday were all excellent so they decided there was no reason to keep me.
Back to the trains!
hon30critterI was let out of the hospital three days ahead of schedule.
The one time an eviction notice is welcome news!
Great to hear, Dave.
Cheers, Ed
The discharge doctor had a wonderful sense of humor. At one point in our conversation she jokingly offered to let me stay for a few more days if I wanted.
Glad to hear you are back out Dave. Now stay that way!
Mike
I managed to get most of my boxed rolling stock into two cabinets in the garage:
My workbench is still a mess. It's full of parts boxes waiting to be sorted and put into a wall mounted cabinet:
Progress!
Dave,
It's good to hear that you're home and still active.
Thanks Mark.
This is what the south garage wall looks like today:
This is what the wall looked like a few months ago:
Almost all of the screw holes and other defects in the walls have been patched and they look much better. Some areas require a second coat of drywall compound. We had to quit applying the compound today because the material was defective. No amount of stirring and adding a little water would make the stuff stick. Strange. The bucket was new.
We may have to order another shelf unit. The two that we just bought are full and there are still a lot of boxes on the floor. Dianne's garden shed also has a bunch of stuff in it that belongs in the garage.
That is strange for premixed drywall compond, was in the trades and that has never happened to me but I remember someone saying they had an issue once because in the winter it had frozen.
I made the mistake of once not reading a label and I bought some joint compound that was "light weight".
Your problem sounds like what I encountered. It would not stick to anything.
Hi John and rrebell
That is exactly what we were using - light weight drywall compound. When I first opened the container it was very stiff. I added some water and, after much stirring, it seemed to be the proper consistency but it still wouldn't stick. It was very hard to spread smoothly as well. I have a 2 lb. pail of the real stuff to finish the job with. There will be a lot of leftovers but I can use that for scenery.
One of the nice things about re-organizing my train stuff is that I get the occasional pleasant surprise when I discover something that I had forgotten about (is that an indication that I have too much stuff?). A couple of days ago I opened a fairly large box labelled 'CP transport trucks'. I knew that I had a few CP trucks but I was pleasantly surprised to discover that there were more than a dozen tractor trailers including three cab over Herpa models that I do not remember buying at all. There were a couple of non-CP trucks as well.
I made another discovery on the top shelf of a cabinet that was too high up to see into it directly. I found eight farm tractors - five John Deeres and three Scene Master generic units. I already had nine tractors sitting on my display shelves so now I can make up a short unit train with nothing but tractor loads.
Then I realized that I didn't have enough proper flat cars to carry the tractors but eBay came to the rescue. I found five CP flat cars at reasonable prices (reasonable if you ignore the shipping costs). I also found a D&RGW flat that comes with a fire captain's van and two plows, all of decent quality.