A Very Relaxing Evening

[gmpullman]

Pruitt

but mine's a Pioneer.

Come to think of it, I'm pretty sure mine's a Pioneer* also . I cleared out a bunch of my audio stuff. Couldn't give it away! Still got three subwoofers taking up space here!

For a while I had the Pioneer programmed so it would shuffle certain groups of discs but it forgot — and I forgot how I did it so I just shuffle ALL of them now 

Best investment I made to clean up the CD collection. I still have a couple hundred assorted CDs, Railroad sounds and the like, that aren't in that machine but I have a Sony five disc changer for loading those into.

*Yep, a PD-F 1009 I bought in 2006.

I'm just about done with all the layout ballasting . I'll have to find another time-consuming project, like weathering rolling stock!

C_NW_PS-bilevel_166 by Edmund, on Flickr

 

Regards, Ed

[Pruitt]

gmpullman

I can relate in many ways. Yep, got a 300 disc Sony changer. I enjoy ballasting — or just letting the trains run.

Thanks for sharing — Ed

Hey Ed, I have a 300 disc changer also, but mine's a Pioneer. It's about 15 discs fro full. I tried to find another one a couple years ago, but had no luck. You can daisy-chain three of them together, as I recall.

You enjoy ballasting as well - there must be something wrong with us.

[gmpullman]

I can relate in many ways. Yep, got a 300 disc Sony changer. I enjoy ballasting — or just letting the trains run.

Sometimes I have an audio book playing, other times it is relaxing music that changes with my moods. Haven't tried Gregorian Chants as yet. Last night it was bag pipes, night before, theater and cathedral pipe organs (Plenty of Mighty Wurlitzers!).

Another one of the many benefits I find in this hobby.

Thanks for sharing — Ed

[Pruitt]

I just spent the last hour or so ballasting part of my yard - maybe about three feet or so of track.

While I work on the layout I almost always have music on - I have a CD changer that I just let run through my collection of almost 300 CDs (yes, I'm one of those dinosaurs who still has CDs). Tonight an album of Gregorian Chants came up in turn, and I spent half the time listening to it as I applied the ballast.

No, ballasting track did not become a religious experience (), but listening to the Chants as I worked really melted away the stresses of the day. It was a very relaxing way to spend the time.