Being away for two weeks can really mess you up. It is lunch time and I just realized it is Friday. After spending two weeks in Orlando and Clearwater we are adjusting to real life. I think it was cooler in Florida than it is here in the Philadelphia area. If the modeling gods are smiling on me this weekend I hope to work some on the Farm House Diorama and Grain Elevator Diorama. I still have a couple of covered hoppers to finish weathering. I may even start working on assembling a few billboard reefer kits I have.
I'm working on some additional trees for the JJJ&E and also working on an lasercut building kit. Tom: The heat and humidity is always more bearable in Florida than the occasional bouts of high heat and humidity you get up north. Stay cool and run steam......
You also tend to get those afternoon thunderstorms that cool things off for a while. Up here we don't and the heat and humidty just build and build until a cold front comes thru.
More work on the Texaco pipeline receiving station at a location on the layout. This is mostly making a building and painting/detailing storage tanks.
On Saturday, we're heading over to the Johnson Street Yard for Wisconsin and Southern Railroad's 25th anniversary party. Lots of things to look at and rare mileage trips on the WSOR between Madison and Waunakee. I heard a rumor that Soo 1003 will be there too (it was steamed up at the Janesville turntable celebration two weeks ago), but I don't know if it will be pulling the excursions. I'm planning to put images into my album on Sunday morning (or even Saturday night if I can get to it). I'm not planning on any model building, but we'll see. It's supposed to be another hot and humid weekend, so the basement may be the best place to be for the next two days.
I just got an email from a friend who stopped by at the yard about a half hour ago. Soo 1003 is there and steamed up and ready for operations! Woot!!! I may not get to see the biggest steam in operation this weekend, but I'll at least see real mainline steam!
I am working on a factory building for my S scale layout. I am having to do some kitbashing to add interior floors and walls, so I am sort of making it up as I go. I hope to make some real progress, although the new Harry Potter book might slow me down. My wife and daughter have finished it, so its my turn to read it.
You also tend to get those afternoon thunderstorms that cool things off for a while. Up here we don't and the heat and humidty just build and build until a cold front comes thru. </font>[/QUOTE]Yes, those afternoon thunderstorms cool things off to a bearable condition. You could get 2-3 inches of rain in 30 minutes depending on the storm. Stay cool and run steam.....
Still undecided. I was away last weekend, trying a quick recovery from "special assignment." I think I'll assemble a long train behind four H16-44s and see how it runs. I've got about 100 new people to plant, and still two kits to build. Plus some scenery touch up to do.
Your trains had better lose. Let's see. Date in the morning Start looking for Wall paper with clouds for backdrop. Plan for vacation Take pics of using Keboard boxes for rolling stock storage. Do up one more Compound Yard design and photo it
Just finished up 12 days straight of work, get one day off (Saturday) and go back to for 6 days, so I don't intend on doing anything.
You mean like this? This was taken on the causeway from Clearwater to Tampa. We drove thru it and it was nasty. We spent the rest of the trip to Orlando trying to out run it.
