Work has continued, but posts haven't ...

I am very sorry for the lack of posts, but my internet connection is sometimes a little sketchy. So, while I might have time to do a little work on the railroad (the model one), it is much harder to get posts out as you all might want.

I will start off with some posts that have gone out to the Model Rail Radio mailing list, but I have not posted here. That happens because I take the pictures with my iphone and I am able to send them to the list from that. Whereas, I am not able to send photos to the blog from my iPhone, or at least it has been sufficiently difficult that I have not pursued it.

Anyway, I have been working on the abandoned track that is going to run alongside the main line here and I have been moving along slowly, but then again, I always do ...

So this all makes sense, I am going to post bits and pieces, instead of loading it all into this one post.

Well, just so you all know, I went down to Craig Bisguier's this weekend on then Acela. It was a late afternoon train and I was able to get this photo with my iPhone as we tooled along at around 100mph.

I never cease to be impressed with the camera in the iPhone. It takes about the best model photos I have ever taken and there is no way in the world I could have gotten a picture like the above with my other cameras, at least not without a lot of prep, that was just fired out the window.

When I arrived, Craig's wife picked me up at the train station in Clifton, NJ and brought me over to his friend, Dave Ramos' house for the operating session that was on going when I arrived. It was very cool and I had a great time, even though the engineer I worked with first only killed me about 4 times ... It only hurt a little.

Today, Craig and I drove out to Scranton, PA to get research photos to help me with my Delaware Lackawanna modeling. We started out in Steamtown, where we both bought t-shirts at the store and then were greeted by CN 3254 being turned on the turntable and then backed onto a string of 6 coaches.

That photo was taken later, in Moscow, PA. After visiting the DL shops, where we saw a number of the stable outside, including 2452, and various others, as well as the rather impressive deadline, we decided to chase 3254 to Moscow, as that is in the direction of Cresco, PA, our ultimate destination. We were assured by one of the trainman that we would have no problem chasing her as she would only be going 25 mph up the hill ... Well, due to several factors, we got smoked (no pun intended) It is very difficult to believe that they were only going 25 ...

 After spending some time in Cresco getting lots of photos, we were greeted by PT-98, which we chased towards the East, which just happens to be towards Craig's ... very convenient. I think this bridge needs to be modeled ... But then again, I want to model everything ...

Modeling updates are to follow ...