Beauchine nears completion

Some say that a model railroad is never complete. I sure hope that is the case with the KIP. I am not sure what I would do if there was no work to be done on the railway. I might actually have to run trains, I think I remember doing that!!!

Nevertheless, the Beauchine section is nearing completion.

The electrical gang (Gord) has about one half the necessary wiring installed. Probably the next time we meet, the lights will go on at Beauchine. Being the master electrician he is I am grateful he is doing this aspect of the building, If I were doing it the lights might never go on. With Gord at the helm I know it will not only be done but done right.

The section gang (Colin) continued his mastery at scenery. You will recall on the last post I mentioned we ran out of the material for 'Scree', (these are stones at the bottom of a rock face that have 'fallen' off the rock face). Well due to the generosity of Bill Noel, who visited the KIP yesterday, we obtained more scree and Colin was able to complete screeing the Beauchine area.

Not wanting to do nothing, I embarked on a project I have wanted do do for some time: Build some shelves to store/display my passenger equipment. Might as well show it since none of it runs on my tight radius curves.

A start

Opps! did not buy enough brackets

- need two more to complete bottom shelf -

Some things never change:

Very often I used to take some pictures that I could not wait to get developed, only to find that I had not loaded film into the camera. Hey, we don't use film any more so that does not happen any more, right? - Wrong yesterday after taking pictures of the section gang at work, I discovered that the modern day equivalent of not loading film is to not insert the chip into the camera, thus no image. Some things never change.

Till next time, live long and enjoy life.