Category: hobby
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hell yes
Aw, hell yes! Read.
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pooped
We had to shovel the driveway. I’m pooped. Here’s an awesome video. G’night. Read.
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hot iron
I went to plug in my fifteen-watt soldering iron yesterday and found that it was already plugged in. Hmmm. The last time I used it was, um … hmmmm. Read.
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a little more
I couldn’t wait until another day to finish laying the rest of the track through the crossings and past the switches that led to the horseshoe curve back to the terminal platform. I thought I could wait until next week, but it turned out I’m a weaker man than that. I had to finish up… Read.
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a good day’s work
Track boss Dominic Book rounded up the track gang this morning. He had to pound on the doors of every whore house and tavern on the low side of town to do it, but Dominic’s not a man to shirk from his job, nor is he a man that people say no to. Of course,… Read.
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moon hoax not
Well, this is refreshing: “I don’t know whether or not they landed on the moon, but I know they couldn’t have faked it.” Read.
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switched
Late Christmas just keeps going and going and going: There’s a guy in New Jersey who sent me a whole mess of train tracks through the mail. Not for free. And he wasn’t my Secret Santa or some goofy shit like that. I paid him what I thought was a fair price, particularly because I’d… Read.
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loco update
It’s been a little while since I’ve been working on the railroad, mostly because of the place where the tracks cross on the foreground. I’ve built that crossover three times, and even though it gets better each time, I still can’t reliably roll cars through that crossing with confidence that they won’t jump off the… Read.
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mind your head
This is seven kinds of cool: Dennis Parker, looking for a place to play with his trains, cut a trap door in the floor of the kitchen in his house and laid out the track for his pike in the crawl space under his house. Thirty-six years later, the layout sprawls across the footprint of… Read.
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Working on the railroad
I spent a chunk of the afternoon installing this bit of bench work for the main railway station on the Lost Continent RR — finding the right height for it, leveling it off, screwing all the bits in place. It turned out to be a lot more fiddling than I thought it would. It always… Read.
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