Another weekend has left the station, how did you do? Saturday I started out by helping lay track on the NBTN N-Trak clubs yard module. The goal is to get this done by Galesburg in two weeks. I stayed until noon. The weather has been warm and with Jess the Railfan Jeep being topless and doorless, I took the long way home following the old Nickleplate out of Bloomington east then the Bloomer line home. Sunday I got more of the T-Trak module done but not as much as I wanted. I also worked some more on the Iowa Interstate GP38-2. The rear baricade stripe was a pain, but it finally snugged down. Hopefully I'll be able to finish this in the next few days. Overall a good weekend, although I was planning to get more done. So how about you? Did you work on club modules? Any railfaning? How about layout work? Tell us what you accomplished this weekend and show us if you have pictures. We'll come back and do it all over again on Friday, June 15th. ​High Greens!
Not much at all for me. I did a tiny bit of work on a couple of structures, but spent more time trying to wrestle a through-the-wall air conditioner out. There's a metal shroud around the fan which has rusted and split. It's banging against the fan, and it's also jammed against the housing so it won't slide out. Grrrrr.
plodding long slowly . . . the 1x2 challenge module is stating to look like something: and I got the measurements translated to the wall for benchwork sections 2 and 3:
I was at the grand opening of the Alco museum in Schenectady NY on sunday. My two N-Trak modules were included in a 16' X 16' layout. I forgot to take my camera so I have no pictures. There was a cab section of a PA1, a WW2 tank built by Alco as well as an operating race car also Alco built on display along with other memorabilia from the history of the American Locomotive Company.
Yeah I finally got the paint for my Chessie GP40's handrails. No longer will they be that incorrect yellow. I spent some time matching oranges and found that in the PollyScale range (my LHS only carries PollyScale and Model Master) that their CP Red had the correct reddish hue to match my RL and Model reference pics. So without further adue, my weekend accomplishment:
