While the leg team and the L-girder team were wrestling with their components, my third class of seventh graders would construct the frames that sit on top of the L-girders. Four removable layout sections, three at 8’ and the fourth somewhat shorter to fit into a niche behind the main entry door. The design of each of the frames was based on a simple rectangle with cross pieces 16” o.c. but to accommodate the undulations and protuberances of the track plan no two frames were exactly alike.

The Concord Model Railroad Club is having it's 29th Annual show this coming Sunday, August 17th, 2014.

The Concord Model Railroad Club http://www.trainweb.org/cmrc/ has a permanent location in Penacook NH, just north of Concord NH

In which I detail laying the switch at the north end of the siding, thereby completing track on the visible portion of the layout.

I'm sitting here watching a great film called 'Nebraska'. Lovely opening scene with tank cars set on a BNSF line in Montana. In doing so, I have a waft scent of tar with the windows cracked open on a lovely Summer evening. Living in
a condo in a busy condo construction zone in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. As I watch the film and huff the 'notes' of tar I realize
I am modeling an industry called 'Polytar'. A manufacturer of asphalt shingles.

Well it seems the summer is passing fast! I have been working a lot this summer and havent found the time to work on the On30 Mushroom layout. I did get away for a day to head north ( Up North) as we say in the lower part of Michigan! While there I was able to take an aerial shot of Pere Marquette 1223 as well as a nearby coaling tower.

This fine model from SCALESCENES is again available as free download. It is a really nice addition for your roundhouse or as an outside inspection pit. Available in N und 00. Maybe there has to be a small scaling for printing in exact HO via the printer settings. Hurry up with your download.

(I apologize that I don’t have a photo to accompany this post. I don’t have a journalist’s reflexes so missed many key moments, but I’m determined to do better this year and maintaining this blog will help).

I post an agenda for every class on my blackboard. I’d had to revise my plans for the week substantially because I naively expected to finish all six L-girders in a single session, and here we were starting the third session with zero completed L-girders. This day’s agenda looked something like this:

Here is the story of the disaster at Apache Wells, based on a true story.