03-28-2010, 08:37 PM
Thanks for the comments, guys.
Tracks are not fully wired up - I still have to wire (temporarily) the four tracks closest to the warehouses and the staging tracks. Also, tracks are not fastened down yet - I am waiting for spring to get far enough that I can take up the tracks, take the sections outside and paint the landscape before I fasten down tracks and finish the wiring properly (at the moment temporary wiring is hanging down under the layout).
Layout room was at about 18C - call it about 65F or so. I was in there in my T-shirt, my friend Svein was just wearing a normal sweater, but Truls was feeling a bit chilly today - he might be brewing on a cold. Coldest it has been in the room was about 40-45 degrees Fahrenheit - between 5 and 10 C, in mid-January, after an extended period of of temperatures below minus 20C (zero fahrenheit) outside, and lots of snow. But now spring is coming, roads are getting bare, snow piles are shrinking, and temperatures run in the 40s (Fahrenheit) on the outside in the daytime (even though we still get frost on some nights).
Gary - fun to (re)learn that the English word for "privet" is privy. Of course. Had heard it before, but it's not one of the words I use daily in English, so I had forgotten it. After a little googling, it seems like Norwegian (or at least old fashioned Norwegian - these days we use "WC", from the English "Water Closet") got the word from the latin word privatus (private), via the Anglo-French privé.
Reinhard - I don't know how common it was to paint the rods on the steam engines over here. But the company that makes those steamers are renowned for making accurate models, and at the price of those steamers (that brass H0 scale loco was made in only 25 numbered copies, I think Svein said, and it cost about 6000 kroner - about $1000), I would expect it to be a pretty accurate representation of the prototype.
9731 - I guess I like foreign locomotives. But then, what is a foreign locomotive to me is not necessarily a foreign locomotive to you, and the other way around :-)
Smile,,
Stein
Tracks are not fully wired up - I still have to wire (temporarily) the four tracks closest to the warehouses and the staging tracks. Also, tracks are not fastened down yet - I am waiting for spring to get far enough that I can take up the tracks, take the sections outside and paint the landscape before I fasten down tracks and finish the wiring properly (at the moment temporary wiring is hanging down under the layout).
Layout room was at about 18C - call it about 65F or so. I was in there in my T-shirt, my friend Svein was just wearing a normal sweater, but Truls was feeling a bit chilly today - he might be brewing on a cold. Coldest it has been in the room was about 40-45 degrees Fahrenheit - between 5 and 10 C, in mid-January, after an extended period of of temperatures below minus 20C (zero fahrenheit) outside, and lots of snow. But now spring is coming, roads are getting bare, snow piles are shrinking, and temperatures run in the 40s (Fahrenheit) on the outside in the daytime (even though we still get frost on some nights).
Gary - fun to (re)learn that the English word for "privet" is privy. Of course. Had heard it before, but it's not one of the words I use daily in English, so I had forgotten it. After a little googling, it seems like Norwegian (or at least old fashioned Norwegian - these days we use "WC", from the English "Water Closet") got the word from the latin word privatus (private), via the Anglo-French privé.
Reinhard - I don't know how common it was to paint the rods on the steam engines over here. But the company that makes those steamers are renowned for making accurate models, and at the price of those steamers (that brass H0 scale loco was made in only 25 numbered copies, I think Svein said, and it cost about 6000 kroner - about $1000), I would expect it to be a pretty accurate representation of the prototype.
9731 - I guess I like foreign locomotives. But then, what is a foreign locomotive to me is not necessarily a foreign locomotive to you, and the other way around :-)
Smile,,
Stein