Naturally I did go there to run my newly painted F3's, which now have a proper paint job, none that "east of the Mississippi", stuff.

And I did, they aren't exactly perfect, but what in life is?

I got these Stewart F3's for $30 for the pair, not a bad steal if I do say so myself, both units are powered.

Well! We had another final train sale this year at Dana's RR Supply, I bought more than I sold, naturally, I ended up picking an AB set of phase 4 F3's, Stewart units, with the Kato drive, (a better drive than the china drive from Athearn!), these units run like a Swiss watch, they also look good, however, that purple ACL just don't cut it, they shall be D&RGW units, most likely in the bumble bee scheme, since I have no units in that scheme at the moment, I got the pair for $30.00.

I finally got a set of Warbonnets, man these are nice, not quite as nice as say, the Genesis F units, not quite as nice as say, the Stewart or P2k F units, but nice none the less, these are MRC engines, I got em at a decent price, much more affordable than the P2k or the Genesis, and a littler nicer than the BB Athearns!

I finally got to work on the layout last night, added a siding where I wanted the wholesale fuel dealer to be at, and added some other scenic stuff, here are some pix of the progress.

Right after I added some scenic materials to enhance the area

From another angle.

It never fails, every year, during one of our local train sale's, we will get hit by rain on occasion, in October and March you usually have much heat, in January of 2010, for the first time since 1956, we have a deep freeze, a freeze that lasted for 12 days and counting, never breaking the 60 degree mark degree mark during the day, and dropping way below freezing during the overnight hours, this of course effected our train sale greatly, usually the January sale is our biggest, now hopefully Febuary will be our better sale.

The other day I went into my train room, now mind you, my train room is detached from the house, there isn't any heat or AC in there at all, I needed to get a tool out of my tool box, we've had freezing temps for over a week now, in fact, we are coming up on ten days not breaking the 60 degree mark, so its been cold.

I had been hanging onto an old MDC plastic caboose kit, ( I detest ready to run), I finally broke down and built it today, one because I found I already had the correct decals on hand, and two I was bored, so here she is, still needs a brake wheel standard, but I will use Athearn parts for those since the MDC parts provided weren't correct.