Here's something a bit more lighthearted than quarantine and contagion: At long last we have our in-house model railway up and running around 90 feet (30 meters) of track in our living room that may one day be a cafe.
When we lived near Cusco we would sometimes go to Paddy's Irish Pub (at around 10,000 feet above sea level it is billed as the highest Irish pub in the world) which had a model train running around just under the ceiling. I always liked it so upon building my own house in Sauce I planned to put one in in similar fashion. We bought the Hornby brand track and trains last time we were in the UK in 2014 at a model shop in Salisbury but it took until recently to get the whole thing installed and in operational mode.
The photo above taken from our stairs shows our 'Flying Scot' steam engine from the 1950's pushing a yellow track maintenance car backwards. This is a real track-cleaning wagon that I send around every few days to keep the rails clean. It is a way better method than cleaning the rails by hand. The other train has Thomas and Percy pulling some wagons with gnomes in them as well as a pullman dining car all suspended by chains about 8 ft (2.5 meters) above the floor.
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