Hey, two posts in one day, new record I guess. Hey Bob, I enjoyed your photos.
I looked again at the fleet of your private road names, they look like they
could be a prototype and that makes them more interesting. Perhaps NASG will
do a legends of S someday like the NMRA did.
I helped Dave Jasper take his display out of the toy train museum in St. Paul.
When I started disassembly, I realized it was his Birchwood section, the first
S displays I ever saw at a train show boack in the early 70's. I also recall
that part of this section was pictured in the Herald sometime in the 60's (?)
with Dave in hs sweater, puffing a pipe showing his work off to some fellow S
Scalers in the Washington area. That piece of railroad has been around about
50 years! Sure, the trackwork looks a bit tough but then again it has seen
many miles of travel.
On the way home, I stopped by Jeff Saine's to build a number 5 turnout for
Steve's Chicago yard. That tooling is getting quite a workout, that is about
four turnouts I have made in the last month and Jeff has at least twice as many
made for his new layout design. With the tooling and a sanding belt, building
turnouts is getting pretty fast. I feel now I will be able to make a batch of
turnouts and mock in my next yard, try it out and not feel it a huge burden to
make changes. I have a 5, 6 and 8, I don't know if we have more tooling in the
club but with these, I am comfortable making all manner of trackwork.
Ben sort of explained what a SD70AC was, I would guess I have seen one but you
know how these new fangled engines are, you see one, you have seen them all.
Boy, do I remember hearing that told to me by Steam engine fans back when. It
may appeal to the younger set and that would be nice to get some young blood
into the scale.
When the last turnout is delivered to the Burlington, it will be time to put
the trackwork tools away so I can do some electrical work and get my DCC
programing station set up. Neat thing about this hobby, you always have fresh
projects to take on.
I hope you weekend is wonderful and you can take Bill advice, do something to
run trains.
Ken Zieska
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