The Map is BACK!!!!!

Cape Porpoise is beautiful. That's Goat Island Light. We met the lady who lives there in the summer. She kayaks to work every day. Obviously we did not kayak out to meet her. She served us breakfast at a wonderful little cafe near the point. Boy talk about low tide. Many boats go aground when the tide is out.
This is a new map that can be seen from both inside and out. Its also non stick so.... No more losing the map when the rig is sold:) As you can see, this one needs a lot more traveling before completion. The question is will I get this one done before my friends a Treasury get a clean opinion on the government wide report:) They'd better get moving as our plans are for Texas and Tahiti (by train from DC to San Diego and by boat via Hawaii ) in 2011 and another "great circle" trip in 2012. So the map just might fill up quick:)

Kennebunkport

Here is shot of the older George's modest digs here in Kennebunkport. This is just the tip of "Walker's Point". There is at least two to three times this overall distance on the point to the left of the house. But hey, you have to be able to put the tennis courts and secret service agents somewhere don't you? Downtown is a quaint little waterfront space loaded with restaurants. More on that later, we'll be here for a week. BTW the map is back!

Watkins Glenn

We went back for the 2010 version of the annual classic car race. Here is the start of one of the featured races and a shot of some of the cars trying to squeeze through turn one together.
The brewery is a model I built this summer for a friend in my operating group. He has roots in the Wisconsin area so a brewery theme on his railroad is a natural for him. This model is over five feet long and gives a major industrial flavor to this corner of the layout. I kitbashed it out of flour mill and icing platform kits together with quite a few feet of PVC tubing:) Schmidt is his last name so the signage was a no brainer. I built it to go on one wall but Ron decided to make an "L" out of it by moving one set of storage tanks to the end wall, a change that really improved the model.

Kewaunee, Wisconsin

A nice little town on Lake Micigan that used to have a lot of lake shipping but is now purely recreational. We were there for their annual Trout Festival where the highlight is a trout boil at the end of the day. (I assume trout boil is an acquired taste).

Milwaukee Railfanning

Some shots of the downtown Milwaukee freight yard, former Milwaukee Road, I think. Now shared by the local operator and the CN.

NMRA Layout visits

A wonderful club layout's 10' long station shed. Just part of a 4000 sq. ft. layout. The last three are from David Propp's N scale layout. A great job soon to be doubled in size!

National RR Musuem

Some great equipment. Eisenhower's command train, the aero bus train, and a really great old wooden tank car. The museum is in Green Bay. We stopped on our Milwaukee trip to the model RR conference. Just left in time to avoid all the bad weather in WI.