Sunday, March 4
5:00 am
It is -1 °C, with a high forecast of +7 °C.
From the Environment Canada website:
Today Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries early this morning. Clearing this afternoon. Wind becoming southwest 20 km/h late this morning then west 50 gusting to 70 this afternoon. High 7. UV index 3 or moderate.
Tonight Clear. Wind west 50 km/h gusting to 70 becoming southwest 30 after midnight. Low plus 3.
6:30 am Literature
While sitting in front of my laptop, wondering what book I should read next, having just finished "The Stand" by Stephen King, my eyes wandered over a shelf of non-fiction books and one title simply jumped out at me: "Empire of Illusion" by Chris Hedges. I do not recall when, or where, I bought this book. A good guess would be Greenwoods Bookstore in Edmonton. But it seems like just the perfect sequel to King's disappointing (at least for me) novel. "Empire of Illusion" was published in 2009.
This does not look to be a fun read, but an effort at trying to get us to see ourselves as we have become. Unfortunately, the people who should be reading this are the very people not likely to be interested in reading it.
1:30 PM Model Trains
I have completed both the 5:00 PM and 6:00 PM schedules for Session 2. It has been almost a month since I have been running trains on the layout. The 5:00 PM timetable involved 2 trains: #600 - a local freight, and #100 - a passenger. Both trains are travelling east (note the even number for the train numbers). Train #600 completed its run as it entered the Coaldale yard.
The 6:00 PM schedule also involved 2 trains: #100 continued its mainline run and Train #701 formed its consist in the Coaldale yard and then headed west (note the odd number for this train).
I am still having some derailing problems with the east-bound passenger cars on the corner track behind Coaldale. This is the only place where there is a problem and it involves only the passenger cars.