Model Rail Radio Off Show Chat Notes

12 February 2012

A very interesting recorded show yesterday morning/afternoon. I think the count at one time was up to 32 listeners. Unfortunately, I between the electrical issues and moving furniture around, I missed a good portion of it. I can't wait for the podcast so I can listen to what I missed.

I started an "post show" afterwards and had Anders, Ben, Chris, Tom C., Jim "ICY" Lincoln, Jim G., Jason, Matt and Mike on giving their opinions about the show and all the European guests talking about their layouts and modeling techniques.

I had to leave for a church function about 2 hours into the post show, so I don't know who all stayed on until the end.

I got home about 11:00pm ET, started Skype and got Jim L., Steve J., Chris Abbott and Jason on for a "Post-Post Show".

Started out talking about railroading, but we soon heard the sound of some termites with heavy equipment at Jason's. He was busy cutting into the ceiling of his train room so he can fix a leak from the bathroom upstairs. But the whole time he continued to talk about the iCar.

Jim was busy on SketchUp making a Phone box. It turned out pretty interesting, although he has a bit more to go on it. He had to leave because Titus told him it was time to go home.

Steve talked about the hobby in general.

Jim got me curious about SketchUp, so I downloaded the program and I think I'll try my hand at developing a mock up of the Delmar, Delaware train station. The most recent station was built by the PRR in 1957 and was the a very unique building and the only one of its kind build by the railroad. It stood in Delmar until the day before Penn Central came into being. The PRR offered the town of Delmar the station for $1.00. After the town turned down the offer, PRR hired the Delmar Fire Department to conduct a "control burn" on January 31, 1968. According the the fire department records, the burn started at 11:00am and the last truck was cleared to return the fire house at 7:43pm.

Finally, at 3:00am ET, we ended the call and left Jason in the basement wondering what his wife will say about the small hole in the ceiling.

Since Tom announced that the next recorded show will be on March 3, I'll probably be hosting my usual off show chat each of the next Saturdays, 18 and 25 February.