The Eldridge House in the middle of the Imperial Sugar Refinery in Sugar Land. William Thomas Eldridge was manager and part owner of the refinery and wanted to keep a close eye on operations there. He had this house moved to the refinery site from a plantation a number of miles away.
Posted this in the past but I’m proud of my old scratch built Zalma depot. I need to dust things off, clean my rails and run a train.
This my newest locomotive and one I have been waiting for for awhile. It is Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines B6sb 0-6-0 by Broadway Limited. Here it is pulling some 40 ft wood reefers past the station. I have tested it and it runs well. I am agravated some because the smoke generator is giving me issues. I turn it off with the switch under the loco but it is staying on. I am able to turn it off with F7 on the controller. I will emailing Broadway Limited on Monday. This is diappointing since I have been waiting for so long for a PRSL steam locomotive. This is the first one I know of since IHC went out of business 25 plus years ago.
My Ph.D. from the University of Real Life (majored in hands-on experience and minored in weird problems) couldn't resist cogitating on that. Caffeine assisted, of course, at this hour... That's either the switch isn't wired, is shorted, the switch contact is misaligned, a component is missing on the board, or one wire is loose (maybe even a bad solder joint on the board); or there's a firmware issue where the the controller responds to an internal command but ignores the physical on/off bit (maybe the wrong firmware?). That's worth fixing because it otherwise runs well and it's a really nice locomotive.
