Welcome everyone to the gateway to the weekend! I hope you all had a good week and are ready to dive into the weekend. Let's share our plans on what we have going on at the work bench, layout or track side. Friday: Grandpa's ole Ford has put up a fight or I should say the rust has put up a fight! With the bed off now, my brother and I have cut every bolt, cleaned the frame, painted the frame with rust preventative paint and will now install both new fuel tanks and associated hardware. The goal is to get the truck ready to receive it's bed again by Saturday when we'll need two more helpers. Oh and its going to rain so the clock is ticking. Saturday: The goal as mentioned above will be the final piece of this project. Once that is done, we need to repair Dad's riding lawn tractor. Once that is done, we'll see where we are on time. Sunday: With a 40% of rain in the forecast, I'm really praying the truck is done and ready for winter. This will be my last chance to go to the Hillsboro Branch of the former B&M and see the developments as I leave for Illinois next Wednesday. I still think this branch would be a manageable HO or N scale layout in a spare room. I also want to scoop up some NH dirt to be used on my N scale B&M layout. Fingers crossed that Sunday is a RR day. I'm already looking forward to next weekend and working on model train projects. So how about you? What do you have planned for the weekend? Let us know. We'll assemble again on Monday the 25th to see how we all did. Until then, have a great weekend, be safe and as always... High Greens!
Sounds like a lot to get done in a short time Jim. Hope it all goes smooth and quick so you can get that RR time in. My weekend is pretty much full. We are doing a system cutover for 2 of our facilities this weekend so there will be little if any free time for the layout or workbench. If things go well, I might get a couple of hours back on Sunday. If so, I'll maybe run some trains and see what's on the workbench to do. Sure hope all of you have a good weekend!
Good morning all. This weekend should get a little more modeling done. No home game this weekend and NC State is playing at UVA tonight, so I'll watch that. I have a few "honey-do's" this weekend, plus doing some miscellaneous maintenance on some things. On the modeling front, the grand plan (which can always be altered by morning coffee) is to: Clean up the layout Work some on the LCL project Do more assembly on the "SL" cabin project started last weekend Do some napkin sketches and get an idea on the wiring for my next control panel. Now that I have the front boards printed and done, no reason to let them sit and not put them into service. Have a good weekend.
Good morning everyone, Layout room projects this weekend include figuring out the Digitrax UR93 duplex receiver that arrived yesterday. Got this for the Ntrak club to use with a batch of duplex throttles that were donated to the club by one of the members. And to continue work on the control circuits for the club staging yard. On Sunday we will celebrate my father-in-law's 89th birthday. His grandson and great grandson are flying in for the day so I'll need to make two trips to the airport so a full day for me. Wishing you all a great weekend.
Good morning from sunny and warm Northeast Ohio. Glad to see your father is doing well after all his problems. Today I hope to glue some stone down on the substation project for the club layout. Going to start on a Moloco GATC kit to end up being a DT&I RBL. Tonight will be bowling, going back to an old ball as my normal ball was damaged in the ball return on Tuesday. Saturday is club meeting day followed by an op session, should be fun. May get to some decaling in the evening along with painting another G39 Ore Jenny. Sunday will be laundry, changing out a light fixture, and choir practice then fitting in some kit building and decalling as time permits. Rick Jesionowski
The weekend appears to be a washout with Tropical Storm Ophelia coming by. I guess we will do some small inside home projects and/or some heavy-duty cleaning. Then there is always the laundry. I have a couple of mums to plant, and I may try to do so when I get home from work tonight. I really need to think about what I do next on the layout since all of the mainline is tacked down and wired. I could ballast. I could work on the roads in the city. I could build another structure. I have some cars to tune up and some new Accurail kits to build.
Can't have too much dirt. System cutover. Sounds like it's time for a "work layout". LCL. The mainstay of the small shipper. Eighty-nine great years! Damaged bowling ball...will wonders never cease? "Washout with Tropical Storm". I see what you did there. So far this week, I have diagrammed all passenger car types I plan to use. I have cleaned up a couple of them in the computer in preparation for laser cutting. The rest may be completed today. Saturday, I plan to go to a country festival that includes antique cars which I will try to take measurements from. Sunday is usually small chores and planning. Have a fantabulous weekend.
It has been a long couple of weeks at work. I haven’t had the energy to do anything train-related other than railfan on my way to/from work and engage in some retail therapy and muse on some changes to my track plan. My wife caught COVID, so we’re dealing with that. She’s okay, no complications but obviously not feeling well so I’ll be trying to take care of her this weekend and catching up on chores that neither of us were up to doing over the week with her being sick and my work schedule. But with Ophelia rolling in, all my kids’ soccer and volleyball games were cancelled so they are bummed but that will be one less thing to manage. So first priority will be chores and keeping everyone from going crazy while being cooped up in the house. If the weather improves I’ll send the kids into the yard and try and do some boat maintenance. The neighborhood yard sale was scheduled for Saturday but will probably be postponed due to weather. Which is all the same to me now with my wife sick with COVID-wasn’t going to put a table out anyway. I have a few elderly neighbors and a few others of all ages with different health situations and I don’t want to put anyone at risk. I hope to tinker with my track plan a bit. I had an idea to modify my benchwork plan and I think that might let me scratchbuild something to represent the Metra yard on Western Avenue. And I got it in my head after months of toying with the idea to build a chemical plant. I’ve got a few kits to kitbash/borrow from to build the plant-one each of Walthers Metro Power and Light, North Island Refinery, and Interstate Fuel and Oil and two of the big storage tanks. And I’ve got some Walthers Modulars, a Brach candy, or most likely I will repurpose my Variety Printing background building into the chemical plant office. Oh well, we’ll see. If you’ve read this far, thanks for reading such a long post-I guess I just needed to ramble for a bit. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
An occasional ramble is good for the soul. On my end, I started a spontaneous, interesting and unusual build job. Emphasis on unusual. At work, when we send off our printed circuit boards and parts to the soldering sub-contractor, the boards have "handles" of a sort on two sides where the soldering oven conveyor grips the boards without danger of stepping into a parts-occupied area. We call them "biscuits". When I get the boards back from the soldering joint, I test the boards and when they pass, I snap off the biscuits and keep them handy. I have a bunch of those now, and a couple of days ago I had an inspiration: build a truss-type bridge structure, totally out of scale but darn fun to do. Here's what I have so far: The top and bottom "beams" are made of two biscuits separated by the diagonal members. I'll start making another just like this and put them parallel with a kind of skeleton deck between. What's fun is that one learns why these things are built the way they are, and how stiff this kind of structure is. Who knows... this might morph into a great display for the trains I leave out in view.
