Try as I might, and sometimes I do, I just cannot catch up but it is nice to
hear from you Rosco. I am just relaxing after a busy weekend but wanted to
mention the S Scale activity I enjoyed this last week. Early in the week Jim
Brown and Steve Doyle stopped by to work on our H10-44 kits. Sure it is not
ready to run but and sure there are so many time consuming things to be done on
the layout but there is no race being held, I will get to these things. I
doubt the calculating business people in China care that I am building
something I can enjoy myself, that is OK with me also. My goal is to have a
model of MN&S number 11 that will cause the HO scale crowd in the MN&S
historical group to reflect on the error of their small scale ways.
Steve brought along his Imagine That Industrial Building which I am using as
modules to mock up a scenic break between two locations on my layout. I am on
my fourth or fifth idea and may develop many more in the next week or so until
my Industrial building wall sections arrive. This imagineering is great fun, I
think it may lead to more "work" as I rearrange some existing industries. I
find the folks at Imagine That to be fun to work with and they had no problem
allowing me to buy wall sections and not the complete kits which is perfect for
my use on the layout. They even did a few experimental flats for me, mixing
some of their design elements into a building side. I guess someone might
suggest that the pieces are a bit expensive but when calculated by the square
inch of structure and the hours of enjoyment I am having I find the value very
acceptable.
Well I need to get going, there is a couple of feet of snow on the roof and I
want to get some of it off to avoid ice damns. Then it is down to do some more
imagineering. Wait I forgot to say I actually finished something, I added two
feet of rail and ties to the number 1 track in the Marilyn yard. As I have
started doing some operations, I found this yard just to busy for its capacity.
While this will help, the final answer might involve some movement of the
industries on the layout.
Rosco and others, don't get too down on the news of the impending doom of S
Scale and model railroading, we have folks on the list who have faced real life
challenges, depressions, wars, new Coke and the demise of American Flyer and
somehow the sun came up in the east and went down in the west day after day. I
briefly considered your idea of golf but I thought about having to dig out a
tee box, pounding a tee into the frozen ground, hitting that little white ball
and having to find it again in two feet of snow and thought.... naw, not today,
I have an S Scale empire to create!
Ken Zieska
Wisdom of the day
You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, well you just
might find, you get what you need. 1969, Jagger and Richards
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