United Way visit went well at clinic. Still have the financial review next week....

today, United Way visits our clinic. Sierra Family Medical Clinic (sierraclinic.org). Hope they want to support our community clinic for low income patients

At the market having burgers and fries

No iPhone yet so practicing on iPod touch

Cold this morning. fire roaring. starting to warm up. Little cabin in the woods... Ha!

building scenery on the owNry

I have been busy over past few days building scenery with Jim Younkins. We built up Hoyt industrial as photo to right shows.




and we spent most of time building up east end of layout wehre there are multiple levels.

more photos here.

6 trains in North Fork bridge before the storm

Went to Feather River Canyon yesterday in between storms and saw 6 trains Here are some photos. Will also post movies on my youtube site later on

Operations on the OWNRY October 27

Had a lot of fun. 11 crew and 23 trains.
more photos here

Winter slow down

Haven't been doing much in layout room. Had a business trip to India in December then holidays, then sick..yada yada. Then snow and too cold so stayed by warm fire in living room. Photo at right was taken at pond below our house.

but I am getting back into groove. Jim Younkins is visiting in 2 weeks to help kick start my scenery so I am going out to work on the Eugene staging lead track and fix the switch power in Pasco Yard prior to his arrival.

Stay tuned

West Coast Grain on Mud Bay & Southern

Happy Holidays everyone. Just returned from my trip to India and still feeling jetlagged a bit so nothing new on OWNRY.

My friend Jim Younkins is at it again on his Mub Bay & Southern N Scale Layout.

He sent over these photos of new custom painted engines to be used in his operations

From the email:

"just completed painting a couple of locos. The experimental BN scheme was applied to a GP-40 by the CB&Q. There are some good pictures of CB&Q 629 in "the BN in Color" volume 2. The VO 1000 is for the grain company in Elma. I've decided to have the company switcher do the duties at the grain silo and flour mill. This will be a separate job from the BN Elma switcher. The operator who does the West Coast Grain job will also do the Simpson, McCleary switcher and he Mud Bay Lumber, log train from Camp 6 out to the woods. This should be pretty much a full time position for one operator. "