Boston Mountains Sub-Division

I made a mistake on the template for the coal mine, size is wrong, should be three inches wide instead of four. The new template has seven poles made from 0.100 inch wood Qtips 0.75 inches long and 0.125" square Balsa wood top beams four inches long. Cross braces are going to be six styrene stripes 0.060 by 0.010 inches.

Edit: Added photo.

Joe

 

I've been moving all of the big items from storage the last three days and haven't worked on anything layout related. This morning I'm going to continue cutting poles and beams for the bents for coal mine. Need to go to Hobby Town to purchase some 0.060 by 0.010 inch strip styrene this afternoon and start bent assembly.

Joe

 

Just finished one bent.

Joe

 

I moved four modules from storage this afternoon and set up the Arkansas River Bridge in the living room to see how much damage. It's a mess, will take a lot of time to repair. The brown span and south lift tower are the worst. May have to replace the the side trusses, luckily the kit came with extra trusses.

Joe







Gabby said she would help, as you can see she's all excited. She will be 19 years old in March.

 

I remember what you said about the rigging, this will be a good time to make changes. Thank you Mark.

 

This afternoon I disassembled the bridge and gave each one a good look over. Its not as bad as I thought, just a few pieces to glue back on.

My hobby time is maybe a hour each day here lately. On my previous layout most of the eight modules were built hour/day before I went to work. This was around 2002 & 03, had trains running just before I retired. It was my second try on medium sized layouts.

Joe

 

That is an impressive bridge!! Any progress?

Did you know I used to model N scale? Age and the resultant eyesight change moved me to HO and HOn3. If space weren't such an issue, I'd probably switch to O scale!!!

Paul Moore

 

Thank you Paul. I haven't been able to work on the layout for some time, too many things going on. Will explain in the Hi from Broken Arrow thread..

 

Hi everyone, I haven't been here for a long time and Cynthia and I are doing well. To catch up with what is going on, Gabby our Dachshund passed away March 19th, she was 22 years and 2 days old. When she was younger she could jump up to my waist and I would catch her and she was the best pet that we were owned by her. In March had a second back surgery and Cynthia is in hospice and being treated for a wound on her lower back. On better subject I purchased a new truss bridge to replace the one that was smashed by a microwave in storage, it will give me something to do for the layout. Will drop by once in awhile to update you.

Joe

 

Hi Joe.

Good to see you drop by.

Very sorry to read of your pet's passing. Our late daughter was a pet person. She had a pet chihuahua that meant the world to her. Plus, her daughter is a pet person, and both of her canines are special to her. Pets can become like family, especially canines.

Thoughts and prayers for Cynthia.

Please do continue to drop by and say hi and stay in touch.

Andre

 

Gabby passed away March 19th she was 22 years and 2 days old. Dachshund's are from Germany and she was born on St Patrick's day so that means she is half German and half Irish lol.

 

Sorry for your loss.

 

Thank you, when she was younger I would clap my hands and she would jump up to my waist for me to catch her. I have about a 4ft waist, it was very impressive. Gabby owned Cynthia and I for half our marriage. Joe

 

I purchased a new Warren Truss bridge manufactured by Central Valley a few months ago and plan on assembeling it in about a week. Frist need to go through some boxes and move my bed to the small bedroom so I can setup layout in the big bedroom. It has normal walls and the sm bedroom has one concrete block wall which I don't want to deal with.
Feels good to try to get going on layout again
Joe

 

Learning how to live by myself, the last time I lived alone was in 1981, lol The layout will give me something to do that is enjoyable and time consuming. Haven't been able to play my race game this month bc I lost my phone or I should say it was stolen and this temperary phone won't let me until I get a new phone Saturday and go back to my old number that I've had since 2008. Went on Facebook and begged the person who picked it up to return to service desk at the East Walmart in Broken Arrow, it's been about 3 weeks and still no luck. It had all of the photos of Cynthia and Gabby. The only ones of them I have is one of Gabby found on my build thread and an old drivers ID of Cynthia. When I get new one will ask sales person to see if we can find photos in the cloud.

Joe

 

Got home from Lowe's to pick up some shelf brackets for the layout, they are 10ins tall and 12 wide. Should work perfectly bc the layout is 12 wide, Will mount some after dinner and get a couple of modules off some boxes. Almost done going through boxes in the sm bedroom so will be able to move my bed into it. The lg room is a little more than 13ft long and 10 wide, will be more room than where I had it setup before. Guess I'll have to adjust to the extra space lol. No problems with adding some more length to mainline track. The entry and closest doors are out of the way, closest is on the left side east wall and entry is in southeast corner of south wall. Need to have laptop worked on so I can update my Excel drawings, the mouse doesn't work and unit needs a good cleaning, that's a project for Monday afternoon. Now it's time to start dinner so I can hang steel afterwards, the brackets are heavy so I need my strength haha

Joe

 

Yesterday was a busy day and after dinner last night I fell asleep till midnight, didn't want to put up the shelf brackets being so late so will do it later today. Have some chores to do first.

I've been having issues with loading a photo of the brackets, it doesn't seem to work just thinks about it Any suggestions?

Joe