Preface: My big, old house was built in 1907. There is no end to projects with a house that old. The weirdest years started in 2021 at the (almost) end of Covid. We went to Washington state to visit our son in July. We returned on the 4th to find that while we were gone, […]
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Russell Shilling
V5.2.2 Parameters: Added Proto Narrow gauge 3 foot engines and cars for D&RGW, RGS, C&S Added Accucraft and Bachmann Fn3 cars Added Accucraft On3 cars Additional parameter files for large scale track (AristoCraft, USA Trains) New sets of tree symbols (Deciduous, Fall, Conifer) in small and large sizes (1″ through 32″) Windows version: Now supports […]
Four years of work in the garden on weekends, mornings and evenings. 2017 I had spent a LOT of time beating back both ivy and wild iris from the yard. Both are very invasive and occupied hundreds of square feet of our garden. So in 2017 I had a plan to build a garden railroad […]
Straight Stringers I rip cheap cedar fence boards into ¾” wide pieces, getting four per board. The height of my stringers will be ¾”, so I use the clean-cut sides as the top-bottom. I glue two of these together and cut 1-inch blocks to act as spacers between the straight stringers. (Any stringer scraps can […]