This weeks model railroading

So I went to the MRR club again wendesday night. We started by running a few passenger trains around the tracks. But we had a big derailment when one train was going over a bridge with a bad section of track. We had to bend the rails back inwards, check to see that they were the right distance apart, and then glue in postion. After that we ran some freights around, and I started to work on cleaning the tracks in Murphy yard with the track cleaning car. I had to pull out the cars from the sidings to be able to clean the tracks. One bad switch was causing trouble, but I managed. All of sudden without notification someone else's train came rolling though, and I had to quickly pull my engine and cleaning car off the main line and back into the yard. I threw the switch for the other train just in time.

The track cleaning car consists of a regular car - in this case, a caboose - with a holder on the bottom in between the trucks. The holder holds a sponge which can be soaked with alcohol or anything else. But I didn't soak mine in anything, it works just as well.

After I finished cleaning the tracks in Murphy yard, someone else's train derailed when a coupler in the consist got caught on a wire, and the engine pulled the train apart, derailing four other cars.

Found an abandoned house in the woods

Today I went for a walk in the woods with a few friends and we found an abandoned house!

 

The roof of the side of the house was caved in. Plants have started growing in the mess.

 

 

The gutters are just rusted through.

The official nickname of the house is "da crack haus".