Weekend Update for July 5-8, 2024

[Paul S.]

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So fellow RMRers, what have you been up to this week?

[craigtownsend]

I didn't work on my own railroad at all for the past 2 weeks really. With my wife out of town the past week it was 100% Dad from sunup to sundown and I was just wiped out. Plus a few nights of mid of the night bloody noses from my oldest (he gets them like his Dad when the weather abruptly changes).

But today I think I might have renewed my energy to work on stuff. Spent almost 6 hours in Olympia operating on a small garden railroad. Proof that small layouts can be just as complicated and fun to operate as big ones. Kept 4 of us plus the owner busy the entire afternoon. Really simple moves all in all but it's events like this the give me some renewed energy to work on my layout and kinda provides an idea of how long a ops session will end up being.

It's a busy op session if you never have a chance to take pictures. Well truth be told there was moments I just forgot.

Now if this 90° heat would calm down a bit I might be more comfortable moving dirt, etc.

[Allen]

I got a little work done on a couple of roads this weekend.
https://realisticmodelrailroading.ne...3024#post33024

[Russ C]

I've got one of my steam locos on the workbench. Saturday's running session had it emiting a loud whirring/roaring noise. The suspect was a loose flywheel but both flywheels were all snug and there didn't seem to be anything mechanical causing it. It spend an hour on the rolling road sans body without it happening. I'm starting to wonder if it was decoder generated as It'd cut out as soon as the loco stopped moving.

[N Scale Brad]

I've been away awhile. We were traveling then came home June 7th with Covid. We are over that now and I'm getting back to the layout. It's been hot here for the past week or so and I've been hanging out in the train room with the Air Conditioning on and working on 2 more of the 3D printed Sears houses.

https://realisticmodelrailroading.ne...age5#post31890