A few CVRR pictures and some other related pictures....

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Thank you for saying so, Healey.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[healey36]

...my latest (and final, be assured) changes to Moon Township.
Murph

That phrase is a bit disconcerting Murph. As they said in the movie, one of the great things about America is that she's constantly reinventing herself...build it, tear it down, build it back again. Hoping you haven't lost that itch mate.

Healey

[MurphOnMillerAve]

...my latest (and final, be assured) changes to Moon Township.
Murph

That phrase is a bit disconcerting Murph. As they said in the movie, one of the great things about America is that she's constantly reinventing herself...build it, tear it down, build it back again. Hoping you haven't lost that itch mate.

Healey

Thank you, Healey. I am not certain what is happening to me these days. It seems I am going through change(s) and am pretty sure I am done with climbing around atop the layout. It has changed many times - three of them major - over these couple decades, and since it is running like a clock, which means the trains do not irritate me by punking-out when we have guests, I am fine with what I now have. It's been presented four times in OGR, three of those times being granted the cover. That's all very satisfying to me, especially since I have been an English teacher not especially known to himself, or to others, as a man handy with his hands.

Even my little business of Layout Refinements has been diminished. I no longer travel to and display at the TCA Meet @ York, PA twice a year, mostly because I do not need to do so. Potential clients and return-customers are familiar enough with my work to feel comfortable with e-mailing or phoning me to ask if I have been replenishing my inventory. I reply that I have been, and after seeing photos, they have been buying every single vignette I have put my hands and imagination to. Some pieces I hand-deliver; others have found UPS to be absolutely dependable and non-damaging whatsoever, even for large boxes shipped to Utah, no less! Thus, I have no inventory on-hand for more than a month or two. At the moment, I have one single-stall engine house ready to go and in its case, but I may make it a gift to somebody. We'll see how long it lasts.

Beyond that, I have a client ready, at any time, to have me travel to Kansas again for a continuation of my part of the work creating his layout for him. That has been part of my motivation in getting a new GLE350, entirely paid for by my earnings as Layout Refinements, by the way, but I am not sure if I do want to make the trip and stay there for an extended period of time. I may be tired of standing in other people's basements doing stuff for them. Plus, my wife and I do not like to be separated (which was something we discovered the last time I found myself in my client's basement in Kansas, far away from our home on the East Coast.)

Lastly, I have been concerned that If Lionel were to call me to work on their layout, again, this time in preparation for the new presence at the new FAO Schwarz store at Rock30, I am not sure what I would reply.

My little Layout Refinements has been as successful as I have wanted it to be and can handle. I am not sure what is next for me. And that includes messing around with Moon Township any further with changes.

Thank you so much for what you said. I appreciate the kindness. Very much.

Life is complicated. Life changes, I am learning.
Murph

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Keck's Hotel in Ruffs Dale, PA

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Wow. Fabulous.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Wow. Fabulous.

Now get to work building it!!!!

[rex desilets]

Intriguing building. Did it also serve as a station, I wonder? What does the row of posts serve? Guests pay for rooms away from the tracks...

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Intriguing building. Did it also serve as a station, I wonder? What does the row of posts serve? Guests pay for rooms away from the tracks...

Yes!
Maybe?
Hitch posts? Side of road markers to keep buggies and wagons away from the porch?
They do, but................

[rogruth]

Only ladies on the second floor.?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Only ladies on the second floor.?

Yes, we've noted that in other photos of hotels wherein the genders (and children) were separated.

Not entirely surprising and this still seems to happen - think about the family gatherings around the holidays where the males of the species congregate in one room while the females of the species head off to another room.....

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Wow. Fabulous.

Now get to work building it!!!!

Naw. I think I've lost the fire.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Only ladies on the second floor.?

Yes, we've noted that in other photos of hotels wherein the genders (and children) were separated.

Not entirely surprising and this still seems to happen - think about the family gatherings around the holidays where the males of the species congregate in one room while the females of the species head off to another room.....

Not in my family. We were half Italian (paternal) and half Hungarian (maternal), and every member of both parts of the family gathered in our house, for every birthday, Christmas, and Easter, with even the children mixing it up with the adults. Actually, as a child, I never heard of such a thing as you have just mentioned. However, I do recall the dining room table being extended to accommodate everybody, including the kiddies; that is, we children sat at an extension that ran from the dining room into the kitchen, through a doorway, which even had its own extension of the tablecloth, too, albeit a doomed tablecloth. We kids learned, right from the start, not to have elbows on the table and to be sure to take mouthfuls that were not mouthfuls, but, rather, always small enough to allow for replies, at any time, to questions or remarks made to us. We cut our own meat, too.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Only ladies on the second floor.?

Yes, we've noted that in other photos of hotels wherein the genders (and children) were separated.

Not entirely surprising and this still seems to happen - think about the family gatherings around the holidays where the males of the species congregate in one room while the females of the species head off to another room.....

Not in my family. We were half Italian (paternal) and half Hungarian (maternal), and every member of both parts of the family gathered in our house, for every birthday, Christmas, and Easter, with even the children mixing it up with the adults.

I should have included that this phenomenon occurs post prandial.

My wife is 1/2 Italian - the women take over a room after the meal and the volume promptly goes to 11.