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Good morning. It's 42 cloudy. Looks like the high will be in the 50's and there's light rain on tap. Spent part of yesterday working on some structures I received in the mail. A Bachmann Plasticville gas station, a small machine shop, a loading dock and a trackside shack. The gas station and...

Here's one of 4 structures I received in the mail today. Hanson's service station. It'll be boarded up when I'm through with it.

Good morning. I hope everybody has a good Friday the 13th. It's 41 here and decidedly wet. The high should be in the mid 50's with still more rain coming down. Yesterday I installed some old Athearn metal sprung trucks on a Bachmann tank car that will be coupled on behind a 250 ton crane that...

Got a halfway descent aerial shot today out by the park.

Late last night I finally finished the new MoW car. I wanted to get photos up earlier this morning but Photobucket was undergoing maintenance so I couldn't upload any. I put the old Olympus D550 to work and got these five shots of the finished car.

Good morning. It's 67 and cloudy. The high will be around 65 and there's a chance of thunderstorms. There's some good news today. Yesterday I got my left shoe back from doc's office. It feels a lot better on my foot than that old walking brace I was having to wear and is a lot less trouble...

The new MoW car is almost done. Just gotta do some touch ups on it.

Works continues unabated on the new MoW car:

Good morning. It's 70 and very cloudy. The high will be around 81 and it will be mostly cloudy. Work on the new MoW car continues unabated as shown in this photo: After I finish this side I'll start on the other side which will go a little faster as I'll already know exactly what needs to be...

Good morning. It's 66 and mostly cloudy. The high today should be around 80 and it will be partly cloudy. I have an appointment for a physical this morning then I have to mow my sisters yard later. Somethings busted on her mower. Yesterday I constructed the salvaged cargo (wood boxcar) doors...

A project I was working on today was an old severly damaged Athearn caboose sent to me along with some other damaged cars and an old GP30 locomotive. The caboose was missing most of it's steps, an entire observation deck, all railings and ladders and the frame was cracked. Here it is after being...

Good morning. It's 67 and cloudy. The high should be around 80 and it will be partly cloudy. Spent about an hour yesterday working on what on some other forums is universally being called the GD30J. This was mostly to get the GP30 body seated firmly on it's new 6 axle frame. Being I'm not sure...

Athearn GP30, made about 1962.

Good morning. It's 63 and mostly cloudy. The high should be around 80 and it will be partly cloudy. I received some items in the mail yesterday to use for whatever parts I can get from them. These are an early 60's example of an Athearn GP30, an early model Athearn F dummy B unit and...

Good morning. It's 61° and partly cloudy (broke the clear streak). The high will be around 80 and it will be partly cloudy. Yesterday my soldering gun bit the dust. I had been noticing it was taking longer and longer to heat up no matter how often the tip was cleaned. I was in the middle of...

Nice find there Mapleleaf.