Hi guys,
Well it is Friday night and the fun started last night when the Pines and
Prairies S scale Workshop stopped by for a visit. I had an opportunity to
finish (almost) a turnout for Jeff Saine, it is a Code 100 "fast tracks" built
to allow a deep flange wheel go through it. Jeff is building an industrial
area patterned after Duluth and I though the lower profile rail would look neat
for trackage off the mainline. Like I said, I almost finished it, I had missed
one little detail, a gap on one of the PC board ties in the frog area, an it
was very difficult to find. When I did, the engine I choose to demo it had a
glitch in its DCC program. A few minutes of frustration and another engine and
it was show time. The train ran flawlessly through the straight route, and
then flawlessly through the diverging route. Success! Jeff took the turnout
home to add the remaining ties and paint it up for installation. I am really
looking forward to getting this turnout and a couple more into a scene to see
how it looks. We have a number of good modelers in the PPSSW who use the
deeper flange wheels but no Flyer so the code 100 rail will work fine. It is
so much easier to build turnouts using code 100 then the code 125 or 148 rail
so I hope this is a big boost to getting them along on their layouts. Jeff
spent the balance of the night building points for more turnouts.
Ron Kemp finished decorating a PS-1 boxcar for the Buffalo Creek railroad.
This is not Brooks railroad but a line in the Buffalo New York. I will drop a
photo of it in the mhrywest file.
So anyway things got done, I didn't get anything done on the layout so tonight
I put in another light fixture so now I am really basking in the light.
Amazing what a difference the light makes in the layout room. I know, the best
answer is to get the room done before building the layout but I guess I get
things backasswards from time to time.
Well the fun continues tomorrow, I am going to spend a couple hours over at
Steve Doyle's to help him on the throat of his transfer yard. Last week, I
roughed in a curved turnout to fit a unique area, Steve completed it after I
left. Steve has been trying out different ideas to fit some other features he
wants in the yard. We will see where his imagineering has gone and what needs
to be done next.
Well I need to go, things to do, I will check in another time. Enjoy your
model railroading time. If you find yourself in the Twin Cities area here in
Minnesota, stop by a PPSSW meeting.
Ken ZIeska
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