February and March 2017 Multiple Updates

"Hey, wha' happened?" (from "A Mighty Wind" movie, Warner Brothers, 2003).

Does this look familiar (see my December 2016 post):

OK, wait what happened to February & March 2017? No posts?

This time, I left my job at a Eastern Class I railroad & went to work in management in a large Eastern shortline in the end of January/beginning of February, 2017.

Unfortunately, my free time right now is null & void.

I'm trying to figure-out my next post, but I do want everyone to know that I'm alive & well & I am going to pursue building my Cambridge Secondary Track in HO Scale.

I did, recently, purchase a Broadway Limited Imports HO Scale PRR Class H10 Consolidation (2-8-0). I'm looking at having the ability to “turn back the clock” during operations where I can run operating sessions both in the 1940s & the 1950s (depending on my mood during any given session). The good thing is that fact that I wouldn't have to change either the right-of-way or adjacent structures (making life a lot easier).

I know that from Phillips Packaging stand-point, they used the PRR much more in the 1940's than the 1950's (they were winding-down operations in Cambridge at that time). Photos of the plant pretty much confirmed this from the 1950's (let alone the fact that they were sold to Consolidated Foods in 1957 & then the plant was sold again in 1960 to Coastal Foods Company, but by this time, the place was a shell of its former self).

So that being said, as I said back in December 2016, stay tuned for my next update. I'm not too sure if I can stay with my original ambitious schedule to post each week. Right now, I think I'd be happy if I can post each month (& in the last 2 months, I haven't been too successful following my new plan).

Stay tuned.