Museum volunteers replacing wood rot panels and repainting Blackpool double decker.

Oregon Electric Railway Museum #streetcar

Retired TriMet Type 1

#trolley #gscale #midlife #gardenrailway

#WomensHistoryMonth: These #NYTMCollection photographs from 1943-44 show women who worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Photo 1: A “switch tender” aligning routes for car movements at Sunnyside Yard. The physical nature and tools of her work have changed little from the railroad's early days.

Lights added. #gardenrailway

Almost finished with the store. #Bimart

Streetcars sometimes got stitched together into weird configurations, but this is definitely one of the strangest that I've seen!

Apart from some early experiments with splicing together old horsecars, Portland only had one real "Frankenstein" car. Known as "the Dragon," it took two old standard cars in 1914 and slung a conductor's vestibule between them. Underpowered and slow, it was not a success.

"Abandoned" railway. Not mine.

Spent rainy weekend on Tinkercad modeling miniature ice freezer and pallets of bagged steer manure and soils.

It's Friday Night!

Tests found barium, which can cause heart and blood pressure problems, at 3x the EPA’s limit in the Boarmans’ drinking water. But the state did not inform the family of the results for over a month — until @readfrontier.bsky.social and ProPublica requested them.

Added solar power lights.

A little progress yesterday. If you live in Oregon, can you guess the store?

Hardy board and 3d printer construction.

Peter Witt Los Angeles streetcar, g scale 1:22.

Lloyd overseeing station operations. #buns #modeltrain #gscale

Opposite view the new Sumner Hollow stop with Lloyd watching.

Sumner Hollow station up and running.

Shanty town haul from a model train meeting a few weeks ago.

Kit bashed a used LGB train platform for my light rail/streetcar station.

When the 3D print fits... This gives my heart such satisfaction in this batshit crazy world right now, knowing I have built a my own tea nook.

Clark County train show.

Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁

#NewBooks for Christmas from my biological father... All about the Salem Witch Trials... For family/historical research. I feel that I am being set up or something.

Moss improvements to the abandoned Civil Defense shed.

LBG Christmas Lights

When you're pale and on vacation in the Caribbean. Swimming at night while moon gazing and bat watching. #gothvacation

Sunday #Bunday Lloyd waiting for the trick'r'treaters. Penny looking at nothing for hours.

Rose City Garden Rail Society's Christmas Train at Al's Garden Center in Sherwood, Oregon. #modeltrain #gardenrailway

Every leg muscle sore from shimming the shit out of this trestle bridge. Christmas train setup at Al's Garden Center in Sherwood. #modeltrain #gscale #RoseCityGardenRailSociety

#NoKingsDay Just getting around to posting my video from #pdx rally. This is my favorite at the Faith-base meeting center before the march.

Halloween cycle of madness every fucking year. 1. Make carmel apples for Trick-or-treaters. 2. Feel that it is not enough & run to the store for candy. 3. Wait until midnight for no one to show.

A pleasant autumal day, riding the Max through South Waterfront in "war ravaged" Portland. #Max #streetcar #pdx

US Army veteran Brian Wofford: “I was willing to die and lost a leg in a foreign country fighting for their rights. There’s no way I am bending the only knee I have left.”

#NoKings Day PDX. The government deployed the federal geese! They ain't fucking around!

Trip through Cottage Grove, Eugene, and Springfield. I grew up watching tv-edited Lampoon movies. The chocolate bar in the pool scene from Caddy Shack gets me rolling every time.

Junction north of Oakland, OR. Prefect scenic drive, weaving over the railroad and river.

Clover Creek Road near Klamath Lake. No radio, no cell signal.

Brownsville, Oregon, the first leg of my work trip. I need to come back another day to visit the museum and filming locations for Stand By Me. #trains

Blue Mountian Nursery in Boring, OR (Sister City to Dull, Scotland). I can post the whole list of dwarf trees if there is interest. #modeltrains #gardentrains #gardenrailway #miniatures

At the Farwest Ag./Hort Convention. Found several tree nurseries that grow dwarf variety and will ship. Here is Youngblood from Salem, OR. #modeltrains #gardentrains #gardenrailway #miniatures

Farwest Nursery Convention. I always manage to find a model train.

Threw myself a birthday party. Spent too much on balloons, so yes, I am taking them home. Will wake up tomorrow to a big 4-0 and cleaning supplies greeting. #turning40 #birthday