Rainbows in the Lehigh Valley Gorge

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Thank you both!

   Slight setback here in the Morris household.  On October 5th my dog hopped to the back door on three legs after running around the property inside my invisible fence.  Blew out a knee ligament and damaged his meniscus somehow.  Our vet referred us to a list of specialists with the news that we'd be lucky to get him in for TPLO surgery for 6 to 8 weeks.  And it's expensive too!  My wife got him in on October 17th.  He's been confined to our kitchen with only leash walks outside.  He's a people dog, so the confined space and the collar of shame (which he just got off this weekend) are putting a dent on his morale and has forced me to cut down on a lot of other activities - including model railroading.  He won't be free to roam the whole house until mid December, and he won't be free of a leash outside until early February.

   However, I have been nickle and diming some time while the bride's upstairs with the hound in the past few weeks.  Some progress continues to made.  I covered my mine entry for the conveyor with plaster cloth, Sculptamold and paint.  I'll be getting the brushes out soon and I've purchased some cinders that'll be applied to a good bit of this area along with some ground up coal.

   

   I've had plans to install a steam plant just outside the breaker with a couple of steam lines running into the breaker.  Settled on Clever's "Turbine House" for the basic building with an addition of their "70-ft Chimney".  Put these kits together in the last month or so.  

   

My steam lines are sections of sprues from a plastic model glued together and eventually painted silver and supported with some "steel" girders.