Freelance 2013

[faraway]

Too quiet here...

Everything is fine. But two things happened
a. I am really satisfied with the current layout and have no plans to change time, location or track plan. There is only one building that might be redone this summer. But I am operating the layout daily. The excursion into "brick land" some month ago was very helpful to learn what I really want. That is SoCal past 2005. I missed it so much when I had Morton salt and the Cleveland mill on my layout.
90% of the time is the layout operated with four UP consists (GP15+SW1500(D), Genset+Genset(D), Genset+Genset(D), GP15+Genset(D) (D=dummy)). Some time I toy around with e.g. the patched ex CR Geeps, BNSF GP35U etc. But that last never longer than an evening.

b. We will go on Thursday on vacation for three weeks (scuba diving at the Red Sea) again. That prohibits any mayor projects anyhow.

A Santa FE Proto 2000 GP7 is on my work desk to become a BNSF GP7U. Worked last night on the cab made from a Athearn CF7 cab (provided a perfect roof shape but has the side windows off centered). Topic for today is the short hood to become a low one. But that project will be put on hold while we are on vacation. The engine will be ready some time later in June.