...y'all asked for pics of the museum and UP's yard, well, they're loaded in the picture gallery, member galleries.... Umm... look for smokey :welcome: When I have time, I'll go thru and organize and put captions here or there. There were definitely many pics worthy of mention
A whole new train of hoppers, 123 long, all consecutively numbered
!!! (well, somewhat- I'd find strings of three~five cars consecutive, a few scattered here and there, but you could tell they were all the same batch... looked really cool in person but was hard as hell to capture on film....)
I did a drive-by video of the string of unused locos I had mentioned before (haven't loaded that yet...)
A really cool helium car at the museum on (permanent) temporary loan from NASA...
But been too busy to keep it all organized... been working on this:
Hey, y'all with L-girders, what spacing are you using? I'm real happy with how it turned out- gotta be one of my finer jobs
Everything was double and triple checked with squares before screwing, I even calibrated(!) the angle cutter on the table saw before use- it was quite a bit off.
Anyway... whew... that part's over (actually, I dig every aspect of building, from benchwork to wiring. Each has own special little place in my heart :gotooprah: !!!!!! ) But, now I can throw the wood on top, mark out my track and cut 'er out...
Oh, and speaking of that, I've half-*** settled on a layout, but anyone here really enjoy drawing out layouts? Anyone care to make any submissions? You would always certainly get credit :worshippy:
The table's 6'x12', HO scale. I do have some minimum requirements here and there, but if anyone's interested, we can discuss details then.
Anyway... whatchy'all think?!
And don't forget to go check out my pics. I said I'd bring y'all some back- how's about 140 sound?!
Okay... enough yap... back to work
