finally got around to the new website, looks great. Great to show all of the S
Scalers who are MMR's and I would like to point out that the latest NMRA
Magazine features Chip Romig of Dallas Texas as MMR 423.
I visited Steve Doyle last night to do more work on his yard turnouts. I think
most of the turnouts in the throat area will need to be custom curved turnouts
just to get everything to fit but it will be such a great scene, it will be
worth the effort. Over the years, you may remember that Steve's wife feels I
am the one most responsible for Steve corruption in S and surely I am the one
responsible for the holes in the concrete walls. Last night while I was
working on the layout, Mary backed her SUV into my poor little VW. She put on
a good show of remorse but I could see the twinkle in her eye and I couldn't
help but wonder if her only remorse was that I was not in the way also.
Tom Lennon and I were working on a project Monday and he commented that S
Scalers were part of a big blue man group, we are always holding our breath for
something or another.
The latest issue of the Northern Pacific Railway Historical Society magazine
leads off the modelers column with discussion of the S Scale America SD45's.
They must have seen the pilot model and noticed that one of the body options
included "features" correct for the Northern Pacific.
I received a call from the BNSF (really!). I signed up for the friends of the
BNSF website and I was the 25,000 person to sign up. Maybe I can get a tour of
the Northtown Hump Yard and shops. Must be about 55 years ago while in Cub
Scouts, I toured the engine shop at Northtown and can distinctly remember
walking through an F unit cab and engine compartment. I recalled this story to
the young guy from BNSF who called me and he had no idea what an F unit was.
Guess I better get my cane and hobble on down to the basement, maybe I will run
an F unit around the layout just for fun.... young whiper-snapper.
Ken Zieska
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