Happy belated seventh birthday to my layout! I must apologize for the delay. Anyway, I don;t think I need to tell you 2020 has been a crazy year. I hope you all are doing well and staying safe with this pandemic. I've not done all that much on the layout this year, but here's hoping I'm getting my mojo back.
On the motive power front, I've made no further progress on the NS fleet DCC conversion. But, one of my goals last year was repairing my bad-ordered locomotives. I accomplished this and all but 3 of the PRR locomotives are out of service.
There's also not much new in terms of track. However, I have started mocking up Pittsburgh Staging. I'm not in a real rush on this project since I can't hold operating sessions yet, damn pandemic.
Finishing Johnstown was last year's other goal. I knocked that one out of the park. It's done and I'm happy with it.
In last year's progress report, I told y'all I was a bit disheartened that things breaking on the layout. I spent some time this year going around and making a lot of minor repairs. A light here, a DCC jack there, but the cumulative effect was making the layout feel refreshed.
Let's talk about goals for this year.
-I'd like to get all track ballasted and painted.
-I'd like to make significant headway on Altoona.
-Continue with small repairs and maintenance.
It's hard to believe the layout is 99% done. While I didn't make a lot of progress this year, the progress over the last seven as been astounding. Here's hoping 2021 is a hell of a lot better than this S show of a year!
