Casual Friday at the Layout

Summer seems to have bypassed spring this time and, as of the last Friday in May, it was necessary to break out the fans and set the thermostat on Cool. Despite temperatures out-
side exceeding 85F [we're too old for Celsius], the air circu-
lation by the fans kept Glen, Don W and Jim L from sweating unduly.

 Maybe another reason, we didn't sweat was the casual running we enjoy on the quiet Friday afternoons as com-
pared with the somewaht organized chaos of our Tues-
day night sessions with many more members and guests jockeying for position in aisles that we would have made wider if we had only known. Don W. is running obviously stressfree here between Lincoln and Springbank.




Jim L. decided to test the pulling power of one of his locomotives 

and it spun out on the Tom Smith grade in the tunnel. Being the gentleman that he is, Don W eased his passenger consist up behind Jim's caboose and boosted him up into Spring-bank.  

Transformer car

I WENT ON A ROAD TRIP LAST WEEK TO PORT PERRY AND ON THE WAY THERE I SAW THEM UNLOAD THIS TRANSFORMER FROM A SPECIAL RAIL CAR

Yard Work on Tuesday Night

With Spring comes the need to do yard work and perhaps that is what happened on the most recent Tuesday night at the layout. Jim L is back from the south and enjoys switching with his heavyweight diesels in the upper Wellington yard. Trent, lounging in the chair, continued his daytime coop-ed placement with Ontario Southern switching the Woodstock CP yard by serving as yardmaster at the lower level Elsewhere Yard. Both set up trains to go for other mem-bers and take over arriving trains such as the one Don S and Doug
are bringing into the upper yard. This practice is to speed up train service and stop yard congestion. Behind the phographer, Larry is switching the Lincoln yard.  

Meanwhile, Don P. is happy to finish off his wood re-taining wall project made necessary by moving the main rail line out of Lincoln. This required that the road seen above the retaining wall run along the banking to a crossing point rather than come straight down the bank as before. It made the road angle more realistic as well. On-going projects like this add visual interest to the layout, 

This is the town area for Wellington that is another on-going project. The Zorra Cement plant was placed here originally but was difficult to access so was moved.to a better location. The Wellington station was relocated here and passenger train tracks added so it was a natural to have the town situation nearby. Cami would call this kaizan or continuous improvement. We call it fun and interesting things to do to the layout. The end result is the same.