Work Session @ Pauls

Hi everyone,

Here's some photos from last evenings sprucing up at Pauls. We had two new visitors last evening. Tim and John. I'm not going to try to narrate the photos. I can never get the spacing and the wording to match - so enjoy!

Photos from last evenings activities at Keiths

Here are some photos from last evenings activities at Keiths! A great time was had by all!

Hey - we're running trains! That's what it's all about!!!!!

Paul - testing for operability in preparation for the Piedmont Pilgrimage open house!

Break time!

Bob - cleaning track

Friday Night at Wade's "Plywood Empire"

Guys,

Here's a little video

Friday Night at Keith's

Friday night at Keith's was great, as you can see from the looks on the tired NCIOG boys after a hard night's work.
From right to left: Paul, Steve, Keith, Mark and Ken, doing what we do best - taking a break!

Just to prove we actually did some work, here is the CEO of the New York Central on the floor cutting some foam. Talk about your low budget operations!

Here's Steve doing some painting on an area just next to Westfield Machine. How he does all this painting and never gets a drop on him is a mystery! Speaking of mystery, is that the ghost of Mr. Perry?

Paul hard at work solving the puzzle of the highway bridge supports near Erie interchange. As Paul says, with coffee, all things are possible!

Here's Mark, the master of disaster with regard to plastering! Look at that man go!

Hey! Where's Bob? Not to worry, he's behind the camera, trying to get some good pictures of the NYC in North Georgia.

The CEO reports that the work completed was well and truly done, and a good time was had b\y all, so much so, we agreed to meet again Saturday afternoon to do some more!

What's new on the Richlawn RR

I thought that you guys may be interested in what's happening here on the Richlawn Railroad since you visited last. First of all, the alcove expansion is completely finished! I didn't post a picture on that as there's not much to see. I wrote an article for MRH on the how to cove the corners which they may publish.

I'm currently working on the expansion of the Hoovertown area that will include more businesses along with housing. I'm also working on scratch building my childhood home, named the "Blenheim" project. This will be my first scratch built structure using plastic.


I've laid out the roads using masking tape and drawn a 6" x 6" grid. I also have the area drawn on a piece of graph paper with the same grid layout where I can fiddle with streets, alleys, lot sizes, etc... One thing I've discovered is that I've got a BUNCH of structures that I need to build.

One of the structures that I need to build is my childhood home and I've been busy drawing the layout sketched for all sides. There are a bunch of angles and "fun" areas that I'll have to deal with. Stay tuned for more as I progress.

Thursday Extra on the HOG

Hello everyone! We had another special work session on the HOG yesterday. Thanks to Bob and Paul for all the great help. Paul finished the cement company area and Bob and I air brushed the rails and ties all around. More ground foam scenery as well.

The phantom dead short raised it's head again! We isolated it to a suitcase connector on one of the drop lines to the power bus. I removed two of the suspect connectors and hard wired the drops into place. So here's a word to the wise. When in doubt - hard wire!

See you all this evening at Keith's.

Steve

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