Great report Ed! You always have something to say that inspires me. I can't imagine an unheated basement in Maine!
Sent from my iPhone On Aug 7, 2012, at 8:31 AM, Ed Kozlowsky <[email protected]> wrote: > It's been an eventful 2 weekends. Last Saturday (6/28) 4 Maine S Scalers got > together at the home of George Marcopulos 2-1/2 hours north of me I think > there was only one Maine scaler missing! To make up for it we had an O > Scaler standing in. George has an amazing number of nicely built city > buildings to install when the trackwork is further along. Frank Knight of > Sn2 Crew fame had a great time looking for, and finding, things to work on to > keep himself busy while I looked on trying to keep from embarassing myself. > This is a significant milestone in Maine S Scale history that shouldn't go > without mention. The O Scaler, Pierre Marki, has scratch-built a NY style > float bridge and float switching layout in his unheated basement. It's > truely a labor of love that unlike most layouts, can only be operated for 3 > seasons. > > This last weekend, motivated by the visit to George's, I spent cleaning up > trackwork on my upper level. Thanks to Trevor Marshall and a number of other > freinds I'm also beginning to simplify my design to eliminate some trackage > that I squeezed in. Doing so will give me more real estate for scenery and > better capture the flavor of what I'm attempting to model. > > All in all a fun two weekends. > > Ed Kozlowsky > Sanford, Maine > sscale.org > > > > > >
