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Good morning Alan, glad your here!!!!! THX!

I use ''Flicker'' to host My pix - then send 'em here for y'all to inspect!! Your choice like John said...

Let's see now Greg, John is west of me about 40 minutes or so, me thinks? Just outside of Tucson..
Alan is down below in Sierra Vista way, watching the snow melt off the mountains, an hour plus from Me..

A growing LS community right here is Very Sunny today AZ!!

Hoping to glue a final stretch of ballast AND lay,..... a 'token' RAIL today just fer fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have fun guys!! Dirk

 

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all day - or - a day or 2!!!

at least..............

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Alan, your welcome!!!!!!!

Back wall looks great to - more control and privacy now!!

Your building memories in your backyard now!!
all the pix will really get to ya one day!! Like, .. wow,.. I did all that...!!

Keep having fun!!

Dirk - DMS Ry.

 

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"And so it grows"...!!! Yep

To think of all the work we do to make a railroad "grow" at home!!!

Infrastructure takes time to build also, but is just as important as a great looking bridge!! Planning does it's number on our minds, what else do I need????? ha!!

Mornings are a good time to be outside and work on layouts in the hot days and get watering done too!!

With a power station to run power from, you will have your first pieces of track running in no time!! Cool!!!!! I could bring a non-converted loco by to run..... :-} ( NIB type )

I'm working against time currently. I want to beat the summer rains, in about 4-5 weeks......

Wife & I were in your area shopping on Sat. Lots of pipe for water and power lines came home in the car!!

Stay cool Alan!!!

Dirk

 

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I'm think'n the depth of the raised area will absorb most rain in the amounts we can get dumped on us here, and keep it off the tracks!

As for summer monsoons tho - they can let loose a bucket full in a hurry, and that might be something to watch for and build ditches as needed.

I do not have soft ground under my layout, so it requires me think'n ahead to see where water will flow and collect, so
I can add culverts under track and make places for the running rivers to move away, rather than collect. And over flow or flood.....

Added detail for the scenery master to play with...
Added work to build a layout...

The rains will be here soon enough tho!!

Dirk ....

 

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Alan, Thanks for the un-expected visit to your train world!!! Short and very informative and - well Guys, it looks just like the pix do!! Alan's layout will be a great addition to the Southern flock of layouts in AZ.

I was out of town and called, to find the door open for a brief visit with Alan this morning, in Sierra Vista. Got to see his trains, his collection and the excitement building ( Alan's ) his layout in his backyard! Had a good laugh, .. on me, !! ha, my 1st visit to his home .... and I thought it was across the street.... ooops!! Well,.. now I know!!!

Even seeing it at this early stage, I can get a good feeling for what Alan is planning, and we should all enjoy running there soon!!!!

Met the family, so next time will be even better, I'll have to bring something with me!!

I seemed to pass the dogs - security test. lick, lick,.... whew... ha!!

Thanks again Alan, Dirk. ....... got home safe, but warm,.. and with a big load of lumber and pipe - again!!

 

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Chuck, e-bay was nice to Alan, !!! ..ha!! big help in the track dept!!

John, you say quiet eh..!! If it gets toooo quiet ya could call, leave a mess., or I might catch ya while I'm watering....

Been real hot at my place, so I'm just the live-in watering boy!! Looking forward to retiring from that job, but not holding My breath.. not... not....! Do I look blue in the face!!?? YET!

Ditches command my time, adding more lines and valves for new sections, filling more road back in, !!!! YA!! a good part!! keeping plants from screaming for water at me, well - just AZ!!

Getting better, stone issue over with, and gone by-by!!! tooth fixed - today!!! more shopping and stocking up on concrete for 3 projects here. Quiet, - I'm working against time here!! 3 weeks till the monsoons hit.... and.... I want a bunch of stuff done before it gets wet!!! Remember that wet stuff!! Nearly forget Myself!!

Drop on buy - plenty to be done!!!!
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And don't those roses look great!! yep!!

Alan, only on special occasions do the 0-5-0 tools come out!

WE did have lots of smoky black clouds last night, saw a bunch of dangerous looking 'lightning' ( fires ), in the afternoon and evening both. Thunder oh my! Rolling thunder - not this time, but rather long bouts of ''traveling thunder'', from here to Tuscon I'm sure...

More again today, results of 1/2 a tenth on an inch, of much needed wetness!!

And My road got a good dust kill'n soaking, good for several days !!! the best!!... great to drive on - at last.

Lookin' forward to another visit soon, I need more block for the wash wall going up!!

Yep - summer's com'n - again!! Picnic area eh, water lines are heading that way this week...!!

Take care - Dirk - DMS Ry.

 

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So that was just a disguise I saw then, smoke and mirrors - eh!! great job, BTW..!!

Frankly, I find the landscaping to be a great ''Peace keeper''.

My landscaping is developing out of the presence of the layout, and the layout is benefiting from the resulting landscaping.. sort of a win-win situ!!

The wife can more easily relate to the plant life than the layout... so I spend a great deal of time pursuing the landscaping along side the layout construction work..

Looks great, more Roses Alan!!!

Dirk - DMS Ry.

 

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Alan said ''no rain yet!''.... ugh oh... don't look now, but ....

Had some here tonight tho!! Ran to town for some errands, and went thru the car wash on the way home, heck, today's special did not include the spot free rinse off.... ha!

Once home we had thunder and some wetness here, kill the dust and cool it down a might bit!!! Nice evening now!!

Dirk

 

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cool morning here!! A relaxing break from the heat!! .. yep we got wet, .2'' of it even, for an end of month total of .25'' for June!

Now we'll see the real stuff begin, it's July....

Dirk

 

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ya,.. yesterday was overcast, humid and 85, at only 5:30 am,....

today awoke to 70, nice and fresh,..so


Cool...

 

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It's nearly dark out,

Alan - look North about 50 miles,...

It is blacker than black, with a brown leading edge, covering a very large portion of the - what was blue sky...

Got windy,

So - ''weather warning'' ...ahead , heading south...!

here come the buffeting winds... like JJ talked about, maybe worse still...

S'pect rain to follow shortly, batten down the hatches man!!

Every man for themselves...7:55pm real time...

Dirk - occasional weather reports from Dragoon!! with crakl'nnn sound effects to-boot, thunder and lightnin', brought to You by The AZ for rain station...

sometimes we do trains 2....

storms 1st ...

not by choice....

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interesting rains we are getting here...

''progressive rainfall''...

started with .2'', then .3'', and last night brought a whoop'n .4'' of rain...

get any work done this morning Alan? no cloud cover to start the day.... darn

Dirk

 

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So Happy you had time to play this weekend Alan!! Inexpensive and a easy visual clue as to what is going on when rolling down the track!! LOOKS great 2 btw!!

Nice train work shop...!! room to move around and work!!

When do you want me to come over and plant roses with you!! I'll bring .... a shovel!! ha!..

Dirk

 

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I bet the dust is settled now!!

And the wiring is nearly pulled..

track ready to go down..

But alas, Alan went on Vacation...?

Dirk

 

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I see I'm a 'mind reader' , well I could try... ha!!
"Vacation", .... hoping it was enjoyable for you both...

I thought you were being - 'real quiet' - So you could hear the weeds grow....

You have a large enough area to de-weed...

I hardly even try any more... takes all year anyway... just to start over in July, sort of a ''weed reset feature'', ..

Welcome back Alan,

Dirk

 

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was in Tucson on Friday, again - Dr visit... was by the hobby store - did not see your car this time? mmm..

D :- }

 

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should I like drop off the C-16 I ran at John's, let You spend some time digesting it...? pretty much what you want ... I think...

 

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You'll be neeed'n to mark where I should walk with My BIG feet!! When I comes over!!!!

Dirk :-}