September 4, 2026 - Holiday Weekend Friday !!!

[NEMMRRC]

Howdy.

Let the festivities begin! It's Labor Day Weekend!

I got my yardwork done yesterday afternoon so I have a FREE holiday weekend.

I have not seen any reports from the Twin Cities National Narrow Gauge Convention. We want to know.

Fall should not be far behind. Trains love fall attire like the one pictured here. This was at the Essex tourist railroad last year. My wife and I try to take a trip for our anniversary in September each year. Last year we went to New England to visit the Newport mansions and a small deviation to Mystic and surrounding areas.

Later.

[Raymo]

Good morning. I guess I need to put my white pants in storage for the winter. Photos of a garage in Boston in the 1930's. Kinda has a F&SM feel to it.

[deemery]

Raymo, that place deserves to be in the "needs to be modeled" category!  I wonder what the original use was.  

The cleaners are here right now, so I'm sitting with the dogs so they don't bark and bother them.  (There will be barking when they run the vacuum cleaner.)  Once the cleaners are done, I'll find something to do in the train room.  

No Scotch Club tomorrow, but instead there's the annual Dover Greek Festival.  We go for the food (and the desserts.)  My barber shop closes for the day, the barbers all work in the kitchen at the Greek Center.  

In the meantime, I think I'll read about the new laser, maybe see if there's an assembly video.  Normally, I'm no fan of videos, but assembly videos have a good "signal to noise ratio" so they keep my attention.

dave

[GPdemayo]

Morning all.....

[KentuckySouthern]

We're in the midst of what will seem like hours of storms, started around 0400 and lots of thunder and plenty of rain, can't read the number but it looks like 3-4 inches in the gage.  Weather dude on the tv site said it rained at a rate of 7" per hour as one segment passed.  It looks now, after 0900 that there will be more yet. Severe stuff is unlikely but possible.  It did get severe East of Lansing after it passed us yesterday. 

Not sure on plans, I mowed the majority of the yard yesterday after supper, it had cooled a bit.  Won't be able to finish the back today, way too wet.

Jaime, we also have a Sept anniversary, #25 this year, on the 18th.  Often we trip out, too.  Several years we went to Fostoria but since building up in the UP we go there. Colors should be starting. 

Nice photos all.  That Porter looks well fit for the fall.  Raymo's Garage is a cool building, too. "Build me" is written all over it.

Enjoy the day all, travelers be safe.

[Erieman]

Greeting from Sunny and HOT Arizona. Trying to stay inside during these dog days of summer. 

Several years ago I constructed Yakima Apples I and II. I built two models of each. One set is on my layout and the other is on Tom Langford's layout. During the design and build timeframe, I also made a white model of Yakima Apples III which has been sitting on a shelf in the train room for many years. Well, I finally got around to the build of Yakima Apples number three. I'm a bit rusty on using the forum, so I need a bit of time to post photos of the model. Another problem I am facing is finding a location for the structure. It is big. 60 x 100 scale feet by 50 feet tall. The first floor is stacked stone that I buy from B.E.S.T. The original builder of the stone molds was a dentist from New England. He made beautiful molds, but left the hobby. Fortunately, he had the wisdom to sell them to a hobby business ( B.E.S.T.) so that others can continue to use his wonderful plaster molds. 
More to follow tomorrow.

Frank aka ERIEMAN  

[deemery]

Greeting from Sunny and HOT Arizona. Trying to stay inside during these dog days of summer.

Several years ago I constructed Yakima Apples I and II. I built two models of each. One set is on my layout and the other is on Tom Langford's layout. During the design and build timeframe, I also made a white model of Yakima Apples III which has been sitting on a shelf in the train room for many years. Well, I finally got around to the build of Yakima Apples number three. I'm a bit rusty on using the forum, so I need a bit of time to post photos of the model. Another problem I am facing is finding a location for the structure. It is big. 60 x 100 scale feet by 50 feet tall. The first floor is stacked stone that I buy from B.E.S.T. The original builder of the stone molds was a dentist from New England. He made beautiful molds, but left the hobby. Fortunately, he had the wisdom to sell them to a hobby business ( B.E.S.T.) so that others can continue to use his wonderful plaster molds.
More to follow tomorrow.

Frank aka ERIEMAN 

That's Russ Greene, NE Brownstone.  He isn't a dentist, but rather a dental technician.  Russ showed up in a photo a couple days ago over on the Geezer thread.

dave