Layouts In Restricted Space.

Have a tiny space to set up a layout in?

How about an Industrial Switching Layout?

I am in the process of helping someone up here establish a small 2 foot deep by 6 foot long layout on a shelf unit of said dimension...that is what we are up to now.

Some ideas for industries...small metal fabrication plant, warehouse, furniture factory...can you come up with more?

Some Musical Musings

Sometimes I wonder about how pairings, or groupings, actually come about.

Take Metallica with Lou Reed for example.In my youth I would have thought that it would have been entertaining to come up with some 'imaginative' pairings as well. A few of us went around in downtown London ON thinking of groups and pairings that would have been interesting to see. Some that we thought of..only to discover did happen..were John Lee Hooker with The Groundhogs(T.S.McPhees' band), Ramones with Lemmy,  and now Lou Reed and Metallica.

I am willing to bet that we are going to see some fascinating scenarios fall out of the woodwork because of this. What is next?  Leonard Cohen with Motorhead? Britney Spears with Gorgorath? Justin Beiber with, oh, say Wu Tang? Think genres are getting mixed now..wait until some of those pairings start cropping up.

On to another musing.

What I am also thinking about is how one sets about their songwriting. Me? I'm either working the lyric thing first or my riffing thing...of course, then I get lost in both of these...and nothing comes about.
It is the same with my workflow on my DAW, I'm always coming up with some kind of flummox that leaves me asking myself whether I really know what I am doing...don't answer that! LOL!!

Listening To Some Good Stuff ....

My head has really been into more listening to music lately.

I'm having a feeling that I am starting to get more of an idea of where I am headed in terms of my own music as well. This can be a good thing or a bad thing really. For me, that is...

As for who I am listening to..well..try out some recordings I fell over on the newest music listing...there is a virtual treasure trove to be found herein....:)

Some Odds And Ends

Well...I'm in the process of putting together what will be Sims Jtn together..it is right now on pink foam and is therefor looking a little primitive..but it is coming together..well, sort of...

Note...neither of these photos are album quality ..these are just an indication of what is about to show up on that site.

The first one is of the Rose Tearoom...a middling little cafe that the local constabulary like to meet at. And the second is of the local garage..all scratchbuilt...still needs some work on roof detailing and such...

AAARRGH!! Busy!

So, about those truck weigh scales...

A couple of prototype style photos I took that show their construction and their placing.

 This first picture was taken in Woodstock ON's Purina Mills site...the staging area is rather crowded at this place hence my photgraphing here was a bit tricky to say the least. In this shot notice the weigh scale shed. Seems to be nothing more than a leanto affair

In Beachville ON's Carmeuse site the weigh scales are actually sited right out in the open...and quite white with limestone in this case...At this site there are two of these..one coming in..which weighs the empty trucks coming in and the other on the way out..which, of course, weighs the total weight of the truck..fully loaded.

In my Exceda mill site I will be having two of these, one coming in and one leaving..but in the other order..grain coming in is weighed coming in and when leaving empty.