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  • The Flame Yellowish Orange conversion project I considered back in 2013 is in full swing with two CSX General Electric MOC locomotives converted and scaled down. Scaled down as in, they were too big to scale and built very juvenile-ish-y-however you put it... The GEVO is PF-ready, the C40-8 not quite so as something else will need to take in the IR Receiver for it. The latest plan is to make my widecab SD70MAC a dummy unit and either lash the two up elephant style, or make them both trailing units; so that the IR Receiver can fit in. Note that a Battery Box can't fit in an EMD engine under normal circumstances.

  • Two non-train-nor-quite-town LEGO videos are in the works, one which will be posted immediately.One of them is a special pre-Valentines video and the other is a special ceramic model which symbolized my mom's earlier return from Turkey for serious family business... which went smoothly and everything is swell now. You can see both MOCs at the same time once I get the Valentines special up.
  • The Plant City show and Railfest event happened today, and boy was I in absentia... Logistics and a forthcoming exam totally did not favor an encore of last year's successful trip... If anything, I heard the weather was balmy and depressing... everything for a reason I suppose.
  • I still have to make the Ramp Tour video. Not too much to show, but still plenty of content.
  • For the SFRM members who read, with a school event postponed, I may actually make the SFRM Feb. 15 slideshow.
  • Oh... and I still have yet to see the LEGO Movie. But I heard it's phenomenal.
  • The Mastrena Espresso Machine has been adopted for Amber R.'s (GFLUG) Space Starbucks project, which is an honor. Thanks!!!

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