This ain’t the way I remember it!
Ahhh, this is better. This is what I remember. I remember having to bang on the hatch three or four times, one Sunday afternoon. After being sent back 3 or 4 times for “do-overs,” I finally said, “Ahhh, f*ck it, I just wanted to tell you your car was on fire!”
I dont know Steve you spend way too much time on youtube then running trains. LOL Lets see some pictures of your layout instead.
Shawn said:
I dont know Steve you spend way too much time on youtube then running trains. LOL Lets see some pictures of your layout instead.
[b]BS Junction
(http://www.lscdata.com/users/stevef/BS-Junction.jpg)
Lairds
(http://www.lscdata.com/users/stevef/Bovil-1.jpg)
Temporarily abandoned Stateline Curve, on the way to White Rock and Kennedy Ford
(http://www.lscdata.com/users/stevef/Bovil-11.jpg)
Cheats Crossing
(http://www.lscdata.com/users/stevef/Bovil-7.jpg)
The Two Dog Wrecking Crew
(http://www.lscdata.com/users/stevef/Bovil-9.jpg)
Permanently abandoned Copper’s Hill.
(http://www.lscdata.com/users/stevef/Coppers_Hill.jpg)
The Great Northern Ry Co’s newest acquisition at Lairds
(http://www.lscdata.com/users/stevef/CopyIMG_0097.JPG)
GN 2042 crossing the Palouse River at Copper’s Hill
(http://www.lscdata.com/users/stevef/Ground_Level_Photos/GN2042_6.jpg)
Still need to build the yard at Palouse.
(http://www.lscdata.com/users/stevef/Layout/Img_0023-1.jpg)
Cougar waits for lunch near Camp 6
(http://www.lscdata.com/users/stevef/Summer_Photos/Cougar_waits_patiently.jpg)
Running light on the WI&M
(http://www.lscdata.com/users/stevef/Summer_Photos/Running_Light.jpg)
Wish it was on my RR. Crooked River Bridge at Jen’s
(http://www.lscdata.com/users/stevef/Ground_Level_Photos/Crooked_River_Bridge_at_Jens.jpg)
There ya go, Shawn.[/b]
Hey Steve,
How is that new track doing? BTW are you floating your track? I see what looks to be weed fabric under the road way.
Chuck
Okay Steve. As you were.
Very nice Steve.
You’ve abandoned more than I’ve built 
Looks like my kinda neighborhood 
Ralph
BS Junction???
Steve, neat looking layout, both with track and without…
Steve, thanks for sharing, now maybe i’ll get off my butt and start doing all that yard workin the back so I can start reballasting & leveling track. One question, why was some of that track abandoned??
Nice shots Steve. See some nice buildings in the wings. Engine House in #2 and some in #9
Hoo-rah!
Chuck, some of it is floated, most is on PT lumber.
Ralph, it is your kind of neighborhood.
Fred, the track was abandoned when we thought we were going to move. We stayed put. Having removed the track, I decided to correct some of my mistakes.
LOL Thanks Steve. What a great looking layout. Very nice.
i always get a kick out of this version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvZwLMpFNvM
and then theres this…
Hollywood, the “Engine House” is actually part of an apple processing plant. There is a two story office that goes in front of it, much the same as Richard Smith’s lumber store. I can store 2 SD-45’s and about 12 cars, including a caboose and the battery car. It is 8 ft long, and wide enough to squeeze in 3 tracks. With the office added on, I should be able to get another 3 cars stored inside. I plan to move it to Potlatch and make it part of Potlatch Forest Industries in the near future.
My visit to the Air Force recruiter was short and embarassing.
Like most HS graduates, I really didn’t know what I wanted to do next. I liked flying, and heard the Air Force liked small guys, so one afternoon I dropped in on the recruiter. I was a few weeks short of my 18th birthday, but it took a while to convince the large and rather imposing man that I wasn’t 12.
Finally, he took out a form, and turned to the height-weight chart. Oh. Those were always embarassing as they classified me as “Seriously underweight.” Healthy weight in those days would be classified as “Obese” today. But this chart saved me that embarassment. It started at 62 inches, and I was only 60 inches tall.
And that was extent of my Air Force career.
Tom, I had just the opposite problem. Never svelte, when I took my physical for the USMC, I was a few pounds overweight. Not fat, by any means, but over their standards. The guy who was doing the ht/weight asked me if I really wanted to join the Corps. I told him yes, and my height suddenly went from 6’ 0" to 6’1". That was the fastest inch I’ve ever grown. 
hehe “Come back in the morning when you’re taller.”
