Well who would have thought that we would be bowling as a family in the Czech Republic. Nanna Sue picked out a hotel from the internet and hit the jackpot. The Jan Marie Hotel and it has been great ! We had a great dinner, Mikey played on the slide and swing set and then…
Erin and Haley finished in style. They biked and ran together most of the way. In fact they were so close at one point on the bikes that Erin got a 5 minute penalty for being too close (3 bike lengths instead of 5 bike lengths, the Austrians were very strict in all parts of…
Haley and Erin are competing in a half Ironman in Austria today Sunday May 17th 2015. Suzanna and I along with Reanto, Chele, Nicky, and Mikey are here to support them. The competition is actually in St. Polten, Austria. You can see the details on the link below. http://eu.ironman.com/triathlon/events/emea/ironman-70.3/st.-poelten/athletes/course/course.aspx#axzz3aJojZ4vp We stayed in Vienna on Friday night…
Well our family if off to Europe for an interesting adventure. Our main purpose of the visit is to visit Poland and do a pilgrimage with our church. That starts this coming Tuesday. Today I am in Vienna Austria to help support Haley and Erin in a half Ironman. They call it Ironman 70.3 and…
Yeah ! finished laying the final track tonight. I was waiting on some Hardboards to finish up the side spurs. I finally got everything finished and laid out. Everyone keeps asking me when I will be finished and I tell them in about 3 years and they don’t believe it. Laying the track is just…
I have selected 2 ways I want to control my locomotives on the track at the Peachtree City house. One way is radio control using the RCS system with battery power and the second way is using DCC via track power. Both have their advantages and disadvantages and my intent is to install both in…
My plan is to have one bypass for the main line and 4 spurs. Two of the spurs are on the main line and one for each of the city loops. The exact use for the spurs will be determined in a later phase but I needed to lay the track and bed so that…
I finished the last city loop this weekend. This city is slated to be the Notre Dame city for the Kalamazoo Toy Train Notre Dame Locomotive and cars. I found this set in a local model railroad store that was used. It was a fantastic buy and since them I have bought additional Kalamazoo Toy…
One of the sidings that I wanted to create was a place for the trains and locomotives to be able to go and be covered from the elements. Because the back yard slopes down so much and because our basement is finished, I decided to create a siding that goes into the pool area.…
Well this weekend was Easter and a lot of people were home. Chele was home for the whole week proceeding and she had some time so she made up a lot of curves and helped to bulid out the layout. I had Tony and Brandon working on Saturday building out the Circus City. The mainline…
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