Category Archives: History

Items of historical interest and relevance.

History & Gallery updates

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I picked up a “Car Service Circular No. 4″ at the last B&ORRHS Sorting Session. There is a small mention of the GB in it, so I scanned and posted it in the History section. Matthew G. Vurek was generous enough to lend me 3 more photos of his! They are really great, so check them out in the Gallery. Work in the layout room is on hiatus right now as I am building a brick walkway in the front yard, a retaing wall in the back yard and a walkway ’round the side of the house.

Some additions to the site and work progress report

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On Tuesday night some members of my Model RR club helped me paint the walls in the Layout room with Zinsser B-I-N Shellac Base Primer-Sealer. MAN that stuff smells! We did most of the room, but ran out of paint. I have to do more. One of the club members suggested removing all the furring strips on the walls and redoing them. This got me thinking that I might go ahead and do this. I am going to measure the ones that are in place now and see how they stand up. I want to have consistently spaced strips and as they are now some are crooked, loose or odd. They are also fastened to the walls with masonry nails instead of screws, which to me is no good. So this may be my next project.I have added a bunch of stuff to the History section. Take a look. I added some documents, notes and maps.