White Walls

During the past week, I cut in the room twice with white paint, and rolled it twice as well. Of course, it was later on in the process that I found that the two cans of paint I got were slightly different tints of white! That plus my relatively poor wall painting skills presented a less than perfect result. But, since I plan to cover most of the walls with various railroad art and memorabilia, I'm ok with it! At least it isn't neon green and blue anymore! Last night, I pulled most of the items out of the room to prepare for the next project, which is prepping the floor for painting. We purchased some floor paint and concrete etcher last weekend. I have to completely remove all of the black "stuff" from the floor that you see in the pictures below before I can apply the etcher. So that is what I'll hopefully be up to this weekend...

The second in this series of future passenger train talks is the "Bozeman Zephyr". This is a Chicago, Burlington and Quincy train from my own imagination, which runs from Chicago, IL to Bozeman, MT. It travels across Illinois to Burlington, IA, and then heads along the southern border of Iowa to Lincoln, NE. Then it sets course diagonally across the state for Alliance, NE, and then barely clips South Dakota on its way to Sheridan, WY. Finally, it stops in Billings, MT and heads over Bozeman Pass to its namesake city. It consists of 5 silver streamlined cars, and is pulled by matching E8 diesel locomotives. All components of this set have been purchased, so all we have to do is wait until they are all in Billings and we have an operational layout for them to ride on. The locomotives were a limited edition run available only through "K-Line Superstores" at various spots around the country. I purchased them through Chicagoland Hobby. The passenger cars were a relatively inexpensive Williams Electric Trains purchase through an online retailer. Despite this, the whole train is O-Scale and thus will run on the train layout of the future, taking passengers between Silver Falls, Red Stone, Cedar Valley, and Juniper Peak. Special runs may see it head further into the wilderness near Iron Horse National Park.

The room is now white!

A better view of the floor and the projects to come...

Bozeman, MT

These are my CB&Q E8's, which will pilot the Bozeman Zephyr.

This is a real CB&Q E8, leading the Denver Zephyr into Chicago. This neat picture was taken by Bob Krone and was retrieved from RailPictures.Net