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Ah, The Growth Of An Empire! Cooooooooooooool. :thumb:

Not Too Much Accomplished, But... Well, although I haven't a picture handy, I have laid, sanded and stained the ties running through the hamlet of Megill River, and as soon as I've kitbashed the turnouts to On30, I'll post a few pictures.

Hey, Charlie! I'm a little slow off the mark here, but I'd like to add my thanks to you for dropping in and saying hello. All the best of luck with your health now, and in the future, :thumb: and may we still be following your superb kitbashes for decades to come! :wave:

I went home with lumps, bruises, dents and completely soaked. Could have been worse. I guess it's all in the luck of timing. This was the road I'd been planning to use.

After needing 4WD to ford some pretty deep water, as well as over a foot of hail/ice, I finally found myself on high groung. These folks didn't.

Here's an idea of how quickly the water rose...this was taken about 5 minutes later, less than a block or so away.

Well, once ina blue moon, I actually venture into the city on a weekend. This time, I got caught right in the middle of the worst storm to hit since the tornado of '88. Here, at the very beginning of the storm, I hopped out to take a quick shot of the roadway, and promptly got beaned right...

Right you are, Sir! Thanks for the correction. I used two SW1500 shells, (decorated for Norfolk Southern, I think, as they didn't have any undecorated shells) and the truck sideframes came from the SW1500 as well. PDT is quite correct. Athearn used to call an SW7 an SW1500. Confusing...

Here's why the project got shelved and eventually forgotten. The Frame - As the SW7 was too short, and the GP9 was too long, I decided to lengthen the frame of an SW7. Once the rough shell was figured out, I chopped up two frames, and tried to epoxy them to a piece of stainless steel sheet...