Good morning everyone from cloudy and mild Northeast Ohio.
Bear, at least that looks like a diesel locomotive!
Mike, more progress, don't know how you do it so quickly!
Well, I got little or nothing done this last week, with no football games on I lost about 5 hours of modeling time, while everyone else watched I worked on trains. This week I ended up doing household chores with the family. So some pictures from the history file.
My Pennsy Athearn GP9's with a coal drag passing Leon Lavdas's NYC GP40's on the Strongsville Club layout.
Pennsy Mike stopping for water with a coal drag.
Thanks for looking!
Rick J
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Bear,
It's a fine looking loco and a scale/gauge combo we don't often see here. I wonder if they served beer aboard the train?
I've got a batch of odds and ends this week. Let's start off with some mixed gaige action at the Durango depot.
Down in the yard
Up in Animas Forks, one of the local prospectors came into town, looking for a bath by the looks of him.
Lots of news on the logging front. I found a deal on some Rivarossi log cars. Although standard gauge, they're too charming to resist. They'll be used to haul logs from around Durango and other places to the NG for loading to go east. Management didn't want them on the SG main and since the NG main is still a going concern, they take the ride to the creasote plant via Cumbres Pass.
To help with the increased traffic, another log rack was brought into service.
Finally, I started framing the big Outlaw Mine tonight.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."