blackburn49
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 | | 08/06/2008 4:23 PM |
| Posted By blackburn49 on 08/05/2008 11:15 PM
I haven't showed you the sideview shot yet. Care to guess as to the length of the combined passenger consists?
Bueller? Anyone? . . .
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ThinkerT
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| | 08/06/2008 9:10 PM |
| Sixty feet...assuming the passenger cars are two feet long each and I didn't botch the count too badly in the earlier pics.
Out of curiosity, was the cat just being clumsy...or trying to see if the trains were 'killable'? | | | |
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blackburn49
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| | 08/06/2008 10:54 PM |
| The four passenger consists as seen in this lineup measured 79 feet end-to-end.
It appears the cat was clumsy when jumping over one of the Mac locomotives, knocking over four of the beer cars and derailing an engine in the process.
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| | 08/07/2008 7:04 AM |
| | Ron, your layout gets more and more impressive everytime you post. The amount of time and track you have is astounding. I can only imagine the number of hours you have put into such a great layout. Wish I had that kind of space to work with too.... Keep going!! | |
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blackburn49
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| | 08/08/2008 9:16 AM |
| | The strange summer weather continues. Mostly we are seeing almost non-stop rain and very cold mornings. Over to the west in Anchorage they say lightning strikes yesterday--very unusual for Anchorage, especially this late in the summer. It has been mostly too wet to run the trains. I have now come up with the two-day rule. If we have a second good day in a row I run the trains (that first day where sun might appear typically only lasts a few hours before the rain moves back in). | | | |
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blackburn49
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| | 08/08/2008 9:22 AM |
| Posted By sbaxters4 on 08/07/2008 7:04 AM
Ron, your layout gets more and more impressive everytime you post. The amount of time and track you have is astounding. I can only imagine the number of hours you have put into such a great layout. Wish I had that kind of space to work with too.... Keep going!!
I expect to continue with the Phase II development next year since the need for some type of protected outdoor railroad yard has now been established. That part of the project will bring the railroad even closer to the ground. Maybe by the time I finally reach ground level in a year or two I can begin the final phase. Fortunately it does not appear that I will be running out of space any time soon. | | | |
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| | 08/09/2008 11:24 AM |
| | We had a hard frost last night AND the Northern Lights are already beginning to make their appearance. That COULD mean that the clear weather is finally returning, but it also is an earlier-than-usual harbinger of winter. Some of the elders are saying we are in for a long, cold one. I also note that yesterday I saw the first of the leaves that have turned colors . . . | | | |
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| | 08/11/2008 9:46 PM |
| Iti s the first day in many where I finally have a good view of the mountains to the east. What is obvious to me as I take these shots is that some branch pruning will be in order for next year. The view of the mountains has become obstructed at the east loop--the best angle for obtaining a background mountain shot.
Here I have taken it from a higher point just off the Kennecott model structure:
And here you can see it in relation to the tracks.
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