Mid morning today on I-93 (Southeast Expressway Boston) traffic slowed just before the Milton exit to see what the flashing blue lights were all about.

Nothing unusual about that, except we were on the southbound side, outbound, and heavy traffic at that time is inbound.

As we crawled past, we saw no bodies, no crumpled sheet metal, just a guy in a red Ferrari coupe getting a ticket from an officer in an Amtrak police car.

Why would an AMTRAK police car be stopping and ticketing a vehicle on an interstate highway?

Now that I have gone over most of the build for my layout up to present day (I will take pics of the newest table with the mountains and rock faces in place and post them soon), I thought I would show some of the details I have been working on like tunnel portals, bridges and structures. Since I didn't take any before pics of the portals or bridges before I painted/weathered them, I found pics online of what they look like out of the box.

As the post title indicates, I need some eyeballs on a few documents held at the Minnesota Historical Society. MNHS has photo copy services, but they won't even verify to me that a partial document exists.

So my hope is that someone is nice enough and would be willing to verify a few documents held at MNHS. I have all the information needed, box location, drawing number etc. I just need verifying that these drawings exist.

I know this is a shot in the dark, but I figure it can't hurt.

Craig

After fixing my problem with getting my locos up a 2% + grade (it was never consistent for the entire run) I then saw another aspect of my original plan that I never really loved. At that point I had my loco run up hill about 4 inches over the course of 8-10 feet or so but coming back down hill was done inside another tunnel on the opposite end of the layout in about 3 feet. Needless to say it was a steep hill downward though a few tests showed that locos would not fly off the track or even move that much faster so it was doable but I didn't love it.