Post Thanksgiving Greetings, and minor progress
I was busy this week Preparing for thanksgiving. We had hoped that my old train buddy Mack Montgomery was going to be able to come up for thanksgiving, as he used to before the economy went down the ****** pipe. Since then work, transportation, and economic interference had got in the way of our train fun. This year he was planning on making it, but contracted an intestinal crud; and had to cancel I was hoping to mine him for opinions on my railroad's rebuild design. Mack has been operating my model railroad off and on since 1974 , and he knows my concept, and the area I model, as well as the southern iron ore and logging industries better than most folks. Sadly I'll have to e-mail him track plans, and collaborate from a distance which will not be as productive, but as worn out as I am now, I'd be seriously shot had Mack been able to come
My #1 son did come down from Ohio. I had to work the graveyard shift both on Thanksgiving day, and on Friday,. I got my son to help with the preperation of the turkey, so he could learn the process, and left him with a basting schedule, so I got a chance to teach my son our ancestral turkey magic, and splitting my sleep between before and after the meal, I almost got enough sleep.
This morning, after getting off or work I took a nap. when I got up I cut some foam from a yellow chicken tray, and started putting in the foundation stones, and the steps for the door ways on the helix side of the Union Station. Previously last week I have got the last of the window and door castings glazed and installed; so I'm ready to start the stone work on the helix side. I have also been going through my stash of big chunks of balsa, looking for stuff to use to build the poured concrete bridge piers for the road bridge next to the station, and am trying to design them right now. I doubt I'll get much done tomorrow, My son has invited some of his friends over to use the rifle range. I will want to hang around the young guys, and be sure range safety proceedures are followed. I have not had a good supply of black powder in years, but I do now. It should be fun to teach the young guys about the care and feeding of 50 cal flintlocks.
Bill Nelson