So Anyway..........

[Anonymous]

I have a maintenance schedule for my layout. I'm supposed to be cleaning track today, which is why I'm hanging out here. Hey, it's model railroad related, besides, I might get a tip on how to make my track self-cleaning.

[Anonymous]

In my above post I used the term "benchwork" when I should have used "workbench".
Sorry for the mistake.

[Anonymous]

Well......we (as in spouse and self) are painting our house. Got the front and two sides done, still need to do the back if we can get some rain free days under 90 degrees. Have you priced Sherwin Williams Durations exterior paint recently? Eats up a lot of model railroad budget! I am also in the building stages of a small business, so past week between the two about 90 hours of mine time was consumed. I did manage to order the car card/waybill package from Micro-Mark. I'm anxious for it to arrive, so I can try and find the time to enter the data on the cards.....hmmmmm. Before we started the house painting project I did get some additional track ballested. By this time next year I'd like to be trying to find time for structures and scenery and an occassional operating session with friends. I did get the workbench "sort of" cleaned up last night and that will make any upcoming model building projects more pleasant.
What I need is a climate with consistent temperatures near 75 degrees, no grass and a house that paints itself. Maybe vinyl siding is in the future, eh?
Over the summer I have managed to back date my rolling stock to the 1960s. We were running late 1970s stuff. Nice to see running boards again!

[SSW9389]

I've been making some signs on photopaper for the train club and weathering a few freight cars to keep in the game.

[Anonymous]

I just got an MRC Tech 4 220. Man, that thing is tight! It's the best DC power pack money can buy.

[bcammack]

I've not done much. It's still allergy season (at least it feels like it to me) here in Houston. I have trouble working on fine details of N scale stuff with a piercing sinus headache. If I bludgeon myself with sufficient medication I am no longer in possession of the necessary motor skills to do the work anyway.

[tomwatkins]

Bravo Dan,
Getting away from the flaming and bashing is well worth trying to do. We also have a number of home improvement projects underway. I just finished stripping wallpaper and reapainting in the kitchen and we're well underway with planning the redo in our daughter's room. Plus this time of year gardening and yard work are are constant and ongoing.

Despite all this, I'm making steady progress on the railroad. I've got the mainline and sidings in on the last section to be revised. I'm currently installing the roadbed for the Graham County RR, which is a small shortline RR. It will run from a siding and interchange through the wall to a staging track in an adjacent room. Once that is comp-lete I can get started seriously on scenery.

Have Fun,
Tom Watkins

[simon1966]

I have fixed my 2 track problems that were causing my BLI Mike to derail. I re-laid the trackage into my mine complex. I built the Walthers New RIver Mine and modified it to look like my prototype mine in central Illinois. I used my airbrush for the first time to paint it and am really happy with the results. I made about 40 trees using Supertrees (What a great product this is!). I hope to get them installed on my hillside this evening. All in all a good week. My wife was at a bead show last weekend and attending some seminars at a local fabric shop this weekend, so I have had plenty of time without the boss!

[Anonymous]

I'm working on a better roster for the AS&N and working on an operating plan.

[Anonymous]

I've been trying to clean up my train room and organize things when I have the time. I was hoping to spend fridays paycheck on lumber for my empire but I have other things that need my attention. Hopefully I'll have enough money left over to finish my benchwork. We'll just have to see. Everyonce in a while, I'll get an idea or find a peice of track and through somoe track down but it's becoming rarer and rarer. Money and time have been short lately.
Andrew

[Big_Boy_4005]

The world's largest garage sale!!!!

I'm pretty much in the same boat gondola with you Dan, train wise speaking. The sale will be entering its third weekend, with no end in sight. Revenue has been fair at best, but the mountains of clothes do not seem to be shrinking. I have promised myself that my truck will be back in the garage before the snow flies. In the meantime, I am here off and on, but not for hours on end as before. [swg]

By the way, I bought a bunch of lumber for my layout, but I am using it for the tables for the sale. So, when the sale ends I can get my stuff back.[banghead][:P][sigh][(-D]

[fiatfan]

Between regular summer activities, family visits, and yes the ever popular majority stockholder's lists of non railroad upgrades, I have had very ltiitle time myself. I have managed to assemble a transistor throttle and have been trying to get that to work but have had limited success. All of the smoke escaped from one of the component this evening so it's back to square one.

Good luck on getting something done!

Tom

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dharmon



By the way, this is a thinly veiled attempt to hijack the forum from bashing and flaming.

Dan

Bravo Dan [:)]

Now may others follow in your footsteps and do a little walking on the keyboard. [:D]

There have been several threads lately talking about military equipment and military railroads. So I have been thinking along those lines too. Some of the larger railway guns are just models for show and not really rolling stock. They would still make an interesting scene for a side track though. I have heard that they would "hide" in tunnels during the day and come out to lob one large shell at a time. So maybe a tunnel and the gun would be an idea to consider. <Jim is just doing a little thinking out loud.> [;)]

[Anonymous]

I wi***hat had a place to run my BNSF EMD SD70MAC's and my BNSF AC4400CW's.
BNSF railfan.

[dharmon]

I have to be honest, the past three weeks or I have done absolutely nothing with regards to model railroading, other than read the forums ever now and again, a few magazines and a spend a few hours down at the club, and that was spent more on adminstrative stuff than running trains. Not that I haven't wanted to but, the wife has once again made large donations towards the pensions and college funds of Lowes and Home Depot shareholders and I have dutifully playing the role of day laborer. "They" call it home improvement. I see it as somewhat strange that I have to go to work to relax.....

So anyway.....what are you folks working on?....train related that is....The last thing I was working on was another CF7 for my Maritime roadname, which is near completion...and just starting on a pair of SD40-2s for the same. There's more waiting in que, but I think they'll be waiting a little while longer.

By the way, this is a thinly veiled attempt to hijack the forum from bashing and flaming.

Dan