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By my calculations, each square is equivalent to a 4x8 sheet of 1/4" plywood.

I took a piece of insulation (from house wire) that was about the right size and pushed it on the peg after the drawbar. I found that it was a reasonably tight fit on the locos I chose. It will come off easily if they need to be separated. There seem to be as many, if not more, loco-to-tender couplings as car-to-car couplings.

The people that make the "I love Toy Trains" videos have one of accessory fails. They show a coal loader just spewing coal out of the top that misses the car that's sitting there.

Discovered that my problems with the lights were that both bulbs had burned out at the same time. There were the spiral fluorescents. The space heater is kaput. I took the back off and found that I didn't get at any useful parts. The back was held with uncounted screws, mostly Phillips but 3 hex. The holes didn't line up when I put it back on.

Gym? In my last year of high school, I managed to replace phys ed with an extra, extra hard math class. I managed to score 48 on this, tied with another fellow for highest mark in the township. It may have helped that my teacher was one of the two markers for that paper in the province. We had two electrical failures today. One of the space heaters started to make a smell and cut out. Removed outdoors to be investigated later. A light fixture went wonky and none of the replacedments wanted to work. risk of awl: Does anyone know what colour Coronation rolling stock was painted after the war?

Today was cleaning day. SWMBO went out of the house as far as the front stoop to pick up the papers. I walked to the mail box to get the ads for pizza and chain saws (duplicate of last week but different store). Pizza order would do 2 of us for several days. Tomorrow is bins day. I decided to repair the roof on an old coach that had fallen. The putty seemed to work OK but my supply of white paint had all gone off (or just gone) so I tried Aged White which looks just a bit paler than GWR cream. And not that opaque.

I use that. I've never got dilute PVA to work. I mist some alcohol over the work and then add the glue (Scenic Cement?) with an eyedropper at the side. The misting keeps the spray from moving the ballast around. (I scrounged a mister bottle from my wife's hairdresser.) I try not to spray glue over the rails. When I do scenery (ground foam) I use the larger sprayer from WS and worry less about displacement.

Model Railroader has an occasional feature "Pike Sized Passenger Trains" which shows smaller trains and matches them up with available models. Continuous brakes were standard within human memory. But every car had a brake wheel which would apply the brakes on it. The caboose was available and staffed in case of problems. It also had a pipe attached to the brake line and hung from the railings. This could be used to signal the engineer or to apply the brakes. All passenger cars that I've seen have at least on brake wheel accessible from the end vestibule. I think there may also have been a valve for the brake line. I think some brake wheels may have had to be accessed by going around the end of the car. The term for baggage and mail cars was "head end cars". I remember trains with a few express refrigerators and some baggage cars and one baggage-mail followed by coaches which may have included dining facilities. One coach may have been first-class. Photos taken when I was 12.

On the Wheel of Fortune show last night, someone filled out the lyric as "Clank, clank, clank, went the trolley".

I have a suspicion that the larger scale for superstructure than track had to do with British locos having parts of the footplate coming down outside the wheels. Since wheels then were quite thick, to have the footplate and cylinders the right width, the inside of the wheels, i.e. the flanges, had to be set in a bit. When EM came about the wheels were thinner but still not scale thickness. I think the same may have applied to TT. TT started as 1/10" to a foot (1:120). Digression: If TT3 is rounded to 1:100, the largest TT3 model in the world is Disneyland's Matterhorn.

One of the magazines had a sign "THIMK".

When Dapol sold the car, they supplied 2 chassis -- with and without the cutouts. You might be able to find a spare at a show, someday.

When I posted this last night, I couldn't see it and I thought it hadn't taken. I also have an LP of the trip called Sentimental Journey. 136 and 1057 are at the South Simcoe railway. 815 was scrapped. My friend and I heard about the trip the day before and there were no tickets left. His father drove us up to Forks of the Credit. The train was delayed because 136's smokebox filled with ash. The original prints are 3"x3".

May 1, 1960 Fan trip called Last of the Tripleheaders. Toronto to Orangeville via CPR. Locos 136 4-4-0 class A2m 815 4-6-0 class D10e 1057 4-6-0 class D10h My pictures taken at Forks of the Credit on my Brownie.

John: I mark your posts with a "like" but I'm not allocated enough computer time to listen to your selections. All the ones I recognize are pieces I like.

The CDU does 2 things for you. It gives a huge jolt to throw the point motors. It allows only a small trickle of power through if the switch is left on. I've seen situations where the switch, usually a push button, has stuck on and the point motor has overheated. (I've also seen it with a CDU, and nothing worked until it was resolved.) Power required is determined by number of simultaneous points thrown. Look at your track diagram to see. Free suggestion: get all your point motors from the same manufacturing era. If they have a different electrical characteristic (not sure what it's called) they may not all throw at once or one may never throw. (for points thrown at the same time) CDU also works with a thing called a diode matrix where you push the button for the final point in a series and all the rest line up for it. This will be covered in next term's course.

When I touch up the windows, I try to do it from the inside of the building so that stray marks don't show. Our art supply store has ranges of felt-tip paint pens and some of them are near brick colours. How do you sand the 45 degree corners?

You guessed it. My local dealer doesn't list Precision paints on his site. I'm still trying to figure out the bogies. This weekend we spent not having the Great British Train Show. I tried smoking a pipe. I found that I usually didn't have all the paraphernalia with me.

I was set down to do our income tax today. We owe $1 and a bit more than last year. The deadline has been extended, but we can do it anyways. I've had a beard since we had a long holiday in 1979. I never saw the point of shaving. I do get mistaken for some of the other chaps in the village, but "All us old guys with white beards look alike." I've unwrapped a plastic kit of something that carries people which is mostly in clear plastic and needs painting, partly in a shade of blue I've never heard of (Marlborough Blue?).

There were some problems interacting with RMweb, so some post ratings may not have made it. We moved in 1959 to a suburb of Toronto called Thistletown (Police Village of) which was an old and honourable name honouring Dr. Thistle. Apparently the only Thistletown in the world. We actually moved to a new housing development. Just south of the river was another new development called Rexdale. A few years later the Post Office decided to lump us in wit this upstart. My father didn't like it because of the melding of Latin and AngloSaxon. Possibly also because the Rex (developer) was then in jail.

I've just done (and had done) a couple of bogies on the older LNER coaches. There were 2 different ones. One bogie (sleeping car) required a slot cut into the bolster to take the Kadee box (razor saw). I had to use a low-mount variant because of the height. On a Gresley bogie, I needed to use a side cutter in the motor tool to make a flat space long enough for the box. I think this took a regular #5. Both boxes were screwed to the bogie with 2-56 bolt and nut. A bit at the bottom of the buffer beam was removed, but I don't know if this was really necessary.

We have a picture of you standing in front of a Great Western locomotive.

Interesting weather today. Pathches of snow accompanied by blue sky and sun. Sometimes dark cloud. Intermittent wind gusts. Frozen water lumps when we were out in the car. I'm working on a bit of plastic painted to look like teak. SWMBO is re-reading Gaudy Night, having just finished The Nine Tailors. She much appreciates her Christmas present which was a book called How to Read a Church. Friend Dave dropped off yesterday a couple of Carousels (for slide projector) and I left him a box of Ratio Pratt Truss Gantry, which I think is the last box of signal.s. It's now 11:10. Goodnight, all.

I've suggested before that one should imagine oneself in an episode of Fawlty Towers or Open all Hours when dealing with English merchants. I was wondering if there was an equivalent show dealing with awkward customers. Do you have the LNER Locospotters book? The expurgated one, without Gannet. Shopped early today; wandered around the pharmacy with a mask on. We are now fairly well stocked up and I found 2 railroad magazines.

We are supposed to do Social Distancing of 6 feet (or so many meters). https://www.guelphmercury.com/news-story/9941364-can-you-keep-your-distance-on-toronto-sidewalks-this-viral-video-shows-that-can-be-literally-impossible-/ We are going out a lot less now that the newspapers are being delivered. Pensions. In Canada, to be tax deductible (for the employer) a pension plan has to be registered. This includes certain limits/requirements on the benefits and requirements on the funding. Deficits have to be paid off over 15 or 5 years (depending on how incurred). However, government plans find that tax deductibility is irrelevant, so they ignore the funding requirements. Towards the end of my career, someone in the accounting profession noted that "Other Post-Retirement Benefits" were going to cost a lot of money and very few companies were setting anything aside systematicly.