Busy weekend not much in the way of productive progress. Friday, I had a few
minutes so I thought I would add some SHS couplers to a switcher. rather than
use the rust brown color, I wanted to use up some of the original batch I had
bought mounted to F unit brackets. Challenge is they were not a "sealed unit".
I remembered that and carefully took them off the bracket and brought them to
the switcher. A little uneven pressure and sproing, pieces all over the place
*!!#*%@,, no big deal, I have more..... Well fortunately I needed to take a
break after two and go to a volunteer teaching job, but come evening, I am back
at it. Well, the switcher is on the rails with couplers and someday soon, I am
going to look for all the pieces that sproing all over the workbench.
Saturday was really busy but in the evening Steve Doyle and I planned a social,
non train evening with our wives. A nice dinner and then take in a bit of a
concert. The concert turned out to be a big crazy mess so we sold our tickets
to others waiting in the line and started away. Nice guys but that we are, we
suggested a stop for coffee and some more chat. Steve's wife Mary knew of a
nice coffee shop and soon we were there. Wait, what is this? The coffee shop
is in the old freight house of the Milwaukee Railroad Station in Minneapolis.
Isn't that convienent. While enjoying the relaxing conversation, Mary suggests
we could go next door to see the old station itself. Steve and I act ho-hum
and escort our dates next door to see the beautifully restored Milwaukee Depot,
filled with beautiful railroad calendar art, artifacts, and other historical
photos that we very interesting. As we drove back to the 'burbs, the ladies
congratulated us for the fine evening and were glad we could do something fun
that didn't include model railroading. We are such nice guys.
Well time to face the new week, I do have some small projects to do on the
layout that I hope to fit in this week, I should have my locobuffer by the end
of the week then I will take a crash course on how to program my locomotives
and get going on that. I think it will be great fun but then again isn't that
was model railroading is all about?
Speaking of buildings, around here the Fairbanks Morris track scale and scale
house was pretty common. It is available from the Northern Pacific Historical
Association in all the odd ball scale, I think they might have it produced in S
if there were need for 10 kits but I don't know if this scalehouse was used
anywhere but here in the midwest.
Ken Zieska
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