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Good Morning All: We got below 32 last night, I can't remember when it was that cold in December. I was worried that maybe we were going to have two guys involved in fistacuffs. Everyone has an opinion. When you are rady to buy your first air compressor and don't have a lot of money, GO TO THE PAWN SHOP. They have lots of them and they are CHEAP. I agree with Peter and Lawrence that the cans will kill you finanically. I use a lot of Krylon paint from Wal-Mart. If you soak it in hot water, (from the sink and not the stove, after all you don't want the can to explode) it will make the paint thinner and not cover up so much detail. Their flat black is way cheaper then any place else and it looks good on the ties, ballast, and buildings. I don't think that I'm going to paint a loco with it but just about everything else gets it. I put in a temp track last night and now my mainline is finished. I called eight different shops and have yet to find a code 83 32/36 LH curved turnout. Even Walthers is out of them. It sure was nice to run the trains around the room like they are supposed to. Sat I get to wire it all in with permanent wire instead of the jumper wires. Next, I get to start on the branch line, but I'm sure that the train running will get in the way. After all one needs to keep testing the track to be sure that it is still working. I was supprised to find out that the BLI 4-8-4 is a stronger puller then the Proto 2-8-8-2. Ed: Dan Rather (the pompas a**, according to my mother) chided San Antonio one time about not having a snow plow when they got 3" of snow. If their was a snow plow in SA it would be in a museum and they wouldn't know what to do with it. He should have known better as he is from a small town just south of SA. John: The progress on your layout is astounding. I wi***hat I could come see it again. You need to think about a book like Lou Sassi wrote about building a layout. You've taken a lot of ideas from a lot of different sources and put them into one layout. It would be a good book to read. I've got to get to work (darn) Ya'll have a blessed day and remember SANTA FE ALL THE WAY Bob
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