It has been a snowy winter here in eastern Massachusetts. A lot of snow, but unfortunately I have not had the time to go out and get more snow pictures. After spending all the time digging out it seems the last thing on my mind is to go out again in the cold and wet and try to get some pictures of trains. Especially since the predictability and timing is harder than ever this year. I must be getting old. So this winter I have concentrated more on my model railroad.
I finally built a 10 foot straight test track. I also purchased a scale speedometer that you can get from Greenway Products or www.trainspeed.com. It took me longer than I thought to build it. What I thought would take a couple of hours, ended up taking up the better part of weekend. Now that I have it, I can check out my locomotives and adjust the speed settings, via DCC so that they can run together. I wrote an article about it for my local clubs newsletter. I will publish here after the newsletter is out. I also spent some time cleaning up my work area.
I am still in the midst of some projects. My coal mine is coming along and since I moved a piece of track I had used for programming, I now have more space for the little coal mine community. There are always things to keep me busy on my railroad. Time to fix things here and there. Regular maintenance. My home layout is roughly a 10ft by 10ft layout. It keeps me busy and it makes me wonder how some people manage to build these basement empires.
Until next time, stay warm, stay safe.
AJ