Car Card Presentation

In an effort to do more with the local club, I volunteered to do a Presentation on Car Cards. There is a lot of support in the area for switch lists. I wanted to show another option.
I had to modify one I did many years ago. Today was the day. It was pretty well received and I got decent reviews from some of the attendees and those that had seen my layout liked that it help them understand better.
I was nervous in the beginning but once I started, it flowed and my years of experience made it hard to stop talking.
Good for all I hope.

More benchwork and a new siding

I added the last bit of upper level bench work and setting up to cross the aisle. The mainline will be towards the back and a logging siding in front of that. I willcross the walkway to the right and come back over Portland to eventually end up in the real Northern Maine Junction. 

This will get me three new towns and one small branch, with NMJ becoming it's proper size

Lights above Brunswick

The last session had a request for lighting above Brunswick. Frankly it should have been done a while ago. Since my strip lights were 4' longer than the upper benchwork I had I added another 8' section. The lights are now in and the yard guys will be very happy

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Scenery Update

Got scenery from the track to the backdrop mostly done between Searsport and Orrington.


Got scenery from the track to the backdrop mostly done between Searsport and Orrington..

Water is in

Still more scenery towards the front and around the waters edge needs to happen, but with Op Sessions restarting I had to finish the water and get the bridges and track back in. 

Finally back to work

Finally got most of the remodeling done so back to the train room. Over the last few months the bridge to Portland got out of alignment and needed to be worked on. It is now working much better.

Today I had a visitor to help get things going and we worked on the top of the helix and the trains seemed to be running okay. We also talked about options just in case this is still a problem.

Then we got on to scenery. I put in a cardboard lath in a few places that I knew that I would be ok with and then used plaster cloth for starters. I had Kenny putting down ballast in Searsport and some in Orrington. While that was going on I got farther along in the backdrop between Searsport and Orrington.

Kitchen Issues - Train Gains

The kitchen remodel is having its issues. We had three bad pieces. They were a 3/4" plywood about 2' by 7'. So I told the contractor if we don't have to pay for it and they don't want it back, I will use it for the layout.
Then the replacement parts came and two of them were bad. Keep this up and I will have to build the layout out through the windows.


Chuck