Hollywood has been know to do some incongruous things in films - either they don't know, or figure the audience doesn't know, or they just don't care enough to do things proper like...

 And yet again, on a Saturday afternoon I find myself at Dana's, running one of my trains, I do so enjoy running on this layout, even more so than the one at home, of course, at Dana's, I'm in the air conditioning, something that is non-existent at home, sure I have an AC, in the house, but the train room isn't temp controlled, so during the summer I go to Dana's to run trains in the AC, likewise, in the winter, I go to Dana's to run trains when its cold outside, because just like AC in the summer, I have no heat in the train room in the winter either!!!

I've finally finished, for now, the work on my Klitsa Koal mine. The mine is scratchbuilt using wood I cut in my shop, parts from a plastic kit, balsa and tinfoil for the roofing. The bridge is a scratchbuilt copy of an actual bridge spanning a gorge on the Spokane Falls and Northern on a route that brought their line into southern British Columbia in the late 1890's. A photo of the bridge can be seen on page 22 of "The Kettle Valley and its Railways" by Hal Riegger.

The days all start blending into each other - and I'm a little surprised to realize that tomorrow is my last day here.

Today got really busy - I started by thinking that we just be videotaping interviews with a few select companies - I'd personally targeted BLMA, which is practically a tradition now, ExactRail, since Chris Clune was here with Blaine (rhymes with "train") Hadfield and I definitely wanted to talk to them, and Tangent, pretty much just because - they do a good interview and had a couple of new products that I think will be of interest to many modelers.