Tuesday October 31, 2006 4:10 am Lethbridge Sunrise 7:18 Sunset 17:12 Hours of daylight: 9:54

A. Morning Musings

4:10 am It is -19 C at the moment with a high of -2 C forecast. Brisk.

I looked at the wrong clock this morning and thought it was 5:00 am rather than 4:00. But I am up and alert so may as well enjoy the day. Tonight is Halloween and the kids will be looking for a treat. Top priority today is to carve the pumpkin. Second priority is to make some habitant pea soup.

Model Trains: This is now my major focus.

From rear window	South patio
Both images taken at 4:30 PM

B. Plan

Immediate
Health	Walk & exercise	1 hr
Model Trains	Lay track for White Plains	1hr
	Lay track for Coaldale	2 hr
Mathematics	Read "Fearless Symmetry" chap 7: quadratic reciprocity	1 hr
	Continue reading "The Equation that Couldn't be Solved"	1 hr
History	Continue reading "Marie Antoinette"	1 hr
Literature	Complete reading "The Song of Roland"	1 hr
Later
Chores	Investigate water softeners for home
Technology	Read manual for cell phone
	Make notes for chap. 4 of "Switching to the Mac"
	Begin reading "iPhoto"
	digital photography - learn about using the various manual settings
Philosophy	Read "The Art of Living" by Epictetus
Mathematics	Larson "Calculus"
	Read "The Computational Beauty of Nature" Chap 3
	Gardner "The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles"
History	Continue reading "Citizens"
	Watson "Ideas"
Model Trains	Build oil refinery diorama: add ground cover
	Assemble second oil platform kit
	Assembly of CN 5930, an SD40-2 with a NAFTA logo
Puzzles	The Orange Puzzle Cube: puzzle #9

C. Actual/Notes

	Model Trains 49 October 31
Model Trains Chronology
4:30 am I hope to complete nailing down the foam underbed and track for both White Plains (an extension of the Coaldale yard to include a large grain terminal with accompanying sidings) and the Coaldale yard. I need to adopt a naming/numbering system for the various tracks in the Coaldale yard. I think I will try the following. The Outer Mainline track will be #1. The end-around track beside it will be #2a and the next track will be called #2b. The use of letters will help identify the fact that both tracks 2a and 2b originate with the same turnout. Continuing toward the left will be tracks 3a, 3b & 3c, 4a & 4b, and 5a & 5b. In addition there are two small storage tracks for cabooses called cab-a & cab-b plus 3 small maintenance tracks called mtc-a, mtc-b & mtc-c. That should do it. I dusted off 11 additional cars last evening and placed them in the Coaldale yard. I still have to update my data base for these cars, including the addition of a photo for each of them. Here is a diagram showing the various locations. Pine Ridge is below The Channon. Black Diamond Distillery Row Pine Ridge The Channon Queenston White Plains Coaldale (track #1 on far right)   Finally, here are the recently dusted off additions to my rolling stock: CN 171605 40' wooden stock car CN 599000 50' automobile boxcar ONT 90075 40' boxcar CN 990909 BCOL 9234 40' gondola CP 269334 40' modern boxcar Queensland Rail container car CN 72901 steel cupola caboose CN 424077 40' steel boxcar EJ&E 87234 50' gondola UTLX 48693 36' 10,000 gal tank car AT&SF 100801 40' tank car Notes: ONT - Ontario Northland CP - Canadian Pacific BCOL - British Columbia Railway QR - Queensland Rail EJ & E - Elgin Joliet & Eastern UTLX - Union Tank Car Company AT & SF - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 6:15 am Now to join the work gang and see about laying some track. 4:30 PM I have completed nailing down the track along the White Plains grain elevator. I have delayed adding the foam underbed to the Coaldale classification yard as I only have 2 under the track uncoupling magnets. I may decide to try adding the foam and nailing down the Inner Mainline track. Tomorrow.

 

D. Reflection