Good morning, all.  Dan and I have Dave's weather... Paperwork all morning aside from giving the barn cat's food dish a water pan to stop ants.

Yesterday's model work was only tuning a P2K E-7's DCC settings so it will work & play well in operating sessions. Maybe more today.

Home Shop Machinist had some articles on belt driven machine tools. I think the most common method of starting a main shaft is to let the motor come up to speed with the shaft's drive belt slack, then apply a tension roller to accelerate the shaft.  May have seen that in an article on someone's large home shop. I expect it would be visible in a video tour of the Lowell weaving room.

Seems to me you should be able to approximate a cone pulley with slices of telescoping brass tubing.

That's a large stash to be surprised by!

Our chickens and barn cat are fed, so I'll load the urn with Crescent Wrench blend,lay out some donuts and fruit and leave the rest for when the cook gets in...

Shortly I'll be off to Seashore, this time to work on Track Dept. machines.  The NH seacoast is sunny with high haze, headed for 70. The forecast for tomorrow through the weekend is damp again, so gather ye rosebuds when ye may!

Good evening, all. I've put a few "drink 'em cold" beers in the fridge, and a few from across the pond on the window sill.  Soda and fruit juice on the counter with hot water for tea, coffee or hot chocolate.

I spent the day supporting Seashore's Qualified Bucket Truck Operator as he rigged attachment points on an elderly pole building. We propose to pull the building straight with them before replacing a few failing poles.  And that makes a day which compensates for the calories, and aches to pair with a little alcohol. Came home to a Flying Yankee Assoc. board meeting.  Another day at Seashore tomorrow, this time Track Dept. projects like repairing our Pettibone Speed Swing.

Dave, if you want a recording of the Lowell National Historic Park weaving room, get it soon. A little bird told me their budget is being cut severely.

Good morning, all. Cloudy bright on the NH seacoast, I've got some Town business, then off to Seashore Trolley Museum for track & overhead work.  Maybe a little modeling time after Taco Tuesday dinner.

Good evening, all.  My layout time today was frustrating; I continued re-staging for the next op session, but one of the six commercial switches left on my layout went back to acting up. I'd thought it was settled Sunday. Perhaps it's time to re-lay it. Awkward to do in place, though.

The 133 Grove address appears to be whoever owned Godspeed Machine during liquidation. The prototype for the kit seems to have been at 15 Summer Dr. in Winchendon. Street View looking roughly North from Summer St. (G's car didn't go down Summer Dr.) shows the building with Godspeed Machine still visible on its walls. But G's car didn't cover all of Pond St. or any of Elm St.  The building isn't visible in Street View of Central St. (US 202) but I don't find news stories about its demolition either. I'll try the HUB Division list...

I remember your original post; I thought about buying the kit for the prototypical look, but by that time my layout plan no longer had room for it. Note that the city in MA is Winchendon.

I remembered a Live Steam Magazine article about a surviving belt driven machine shop in California. Google won't tell me which issue it was in, but they know it as Knight Foundry in Sutter Creek, CA. Another surviving belt driven operation is the Soule Steam Feed Works in Meridian MS. Searching for Winchendon Machine Shop reveals the name of the actual prototype for the kit, via a picture of one machine shop's building. Sadly, Godspeed Machine had shut down sometime before April 2023 and while the blueprints of every machine they had ever manufactured were still in the building, they and the few remaining machines were to be ousted by a "rehab" of the building. Google claims it was at 133 Grove St., but Street View doesn't show either a building I can associate with the old photos or an obvious demolition/replacement.

Good morning, all.  Dogwood is in flower outside my office window. The brave American Elm across the driveway we let grow 30 years ago is leafing out everywhere last year's beetle/fungus attack didn't kill. It'll almost certainly have to come down in the next few years but I will save seed from it.  A few things to do on the computer, then hobbies till the Selectmen meet late afternoon.

Good afternoon, all. I got some sun this morning hanging laundry, will get more this afternoon taking it in.  In between, proofread and looked over the Forum. My wife is making a Korean hot pot for dinner tonight - her favorite but it's a long haul to the nearest Korean restaurant and today they'll all be crowded.

Good afternoon, all.  Today is a breakfast at noon day because yesterday evening ended about 0300. My teenager drove to visit his GF and apparently left the Prius turned on but not running its engine for maybe 90 minutes. That drew the 12v battery down too far to start. Owners manual said the lights meant it needed to be towed to a dealer (: When AAA's ramp truck finally arrived about 0145 the driver jumped it and had us on the way home in 15 minutes. All in Dave's steady rain that's just now ending.

If the kid does it again I'll ask for a road service car instead. AAA drivers learn a lot about how cars break down, dealing with emergencies 5 days a week. Regardless he's getting a pause in his driving while he studies first an Owner's Manual, then maybe a Shop Manual.

Anyway, I'm still updating computers but later this afternoon I'll go after the intermittent short that troubled my recent op sessions.

Yes Kyle, that looks better. I'm not up to date on your thread so I wasn't sure how you will do the track. Stunts can be done with strategically placed guardrails but better if the plan is adjusted before the roadbed is built.

Beware: the turnout connecting the oval to the branch to the upper level is drawn as one continuous radius.  It could be done handlaid but if you add two inches of straight track and put the vertex bend (where the diverging stock rail is bent so the points can seat and not get picked) at the midpoint, it will operate better.