Monday September 15, 2025 Lounge

[jbvb]

Good morning, all. Muffins, fresh bread, butter and other things to go on it are on the counter and apples and pears in the basket.  The coffee urn is warming up with Ballast Fork blend, as is the hot water for tea.  The cook may have something more formal planned for later.

It's foggy and about 60F on the NH Seacoast, with mostly sunny weather forecast later.  I'm off to the Trolley Museum for track and mechanical work, then Planning Board after dinner tonight.  But before I go a couple of bills to pay.

[deemery]

James, how did the layout tour go?  Many visitors?  

Further north, it's now sunny, no rain in sight for the rest of the week.  We're very dry.    

This afternoon I'll choose between working on the DCC test track and the machine shop, although I think I should do more pick-up/put-away to where I have a place to set the test track on a table rather than on the floor.

dave

[Raymo]

Morning James, Dave and others that follow. Saturday, one of the larger train clubs in the area had their fall flea market to unload donations to the club. Mostly freight cars and locomotives, they did have a couple tables of building kits. A handful of South River kits for reasonable prices, a few Fos kits, and some miscellaneous kits from some other manufacturers. I found buried in between  some Walthers kits a Fos Scale Canal St. and Third that was marked down to $200. I don't need anymore kits but I grabbed it for that price. Off to practice at being retired, DR

[Rick]

Good morning everyone.

It's currently 50 but will warm up to 61 later here in Olympic NP.

Another hike planned for today.

Have a great day everyone.

[ReadingBob]

Morning all,

Got my walk in first thing this morning. Perusing the web and generally goofing off until after lunch when I'll hit the workbench. 

Retirement is wonderful Dan!

Have a great one!

[ACL1504]

Late morning all,

I've been doing a little yard work like edging and weeding. Not in the mood to cut the grass today.

Raymo, great fine on the Canal St. kit.

Have a great day ya'll.

Tom

[GPdemayo]

Afternoon all.....

[Jim Donovan]

Another late day check in for me. Hope everyone had a good day. Yesterday we had plans to visit my brother in law and have a gathering for his 75th birthday. Instead we visited him in the hospital after my sister in law rushed him to ER. He did not know where he was, could not move normally, double vision and flashing in the one eye.  He has had a couple TIA attacks and this was the worse. Today he is home but still out of it and continues to have the double vision. Growing old is not for the timid.

My own modeling efforts have switched to fixing up the Cundy Hotel by Bar Mills I made a few years ago. I plan to get it judged in the Sunshine NMRA convention next month. I am improving the back of hotel which was left bare in original kit so there will be added a garden entrance, Kitchen entrance with a separate kitchen building connected by a walkway. Kitchens of commercial hotels were often separate buildings back in 1900 so if it caught on fire the entire hotel would not burn down. Hopefully with the additions I will get credit for my work towards the AP Structures category. Here is a picture of the hotel as it was when I first finished it. Well off to dinner, have a great day.

Jim

[deemery]

I have Cundy Hotel in my stash.  I'm thinking about doing it as a brick structure, when the time comes to tackle it.  But I need to figure out what to do with that tower in front, brick would be awfully heavy on the porch posts.

dave

[PRR Modeler]

Jim I hope your BIL gets better quickly.

[Jerry]

Jim hope your BIL is doing better.

Nice looking build by the way.

Jerry

[jbvb]

I'm back from Seashore and my Planning Board meeting, so I'll sweep up, wash the urn, turn on the dishwasher and take out the trash. Meanwhile, best wishes for your BiL, Jim.

Dave, I had 14 total visitors, about the same as a couple of others at similar distance from Concord.  Heritage Park museum layout in Union NH seems to have gotten the most, and their high quality 1909 layout deserves it (which I recall from RR-Line operates a number of cars you built). Tom Oxnard's layout was 2nd, but he's been doing a lot of quality modeling (and writing for magazines about it) in the past few years.