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January,
2005
When the university began classes in the fall, “train time”
slowed to
a crawl. This semester’s
composition schedule was fairly intense and I didn’t get to the layout
for long periods of time, usually only for a half hour or so in the
evenings once or twice a week, before retiring.
I decided that completing the scenery, to a fairly finished
degree, at the foot of HIGHPORT Mountain into LOWPORT, and toward the
BUSINESS DISTRICT would be my priority . . .
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the SPSF GP-20, pulling empty hoppers from the MINE PENINSULA,
passes by a freight house at the entrance to the HIGHPORT area.
The road in the foreground heads down into the LOWPORT area. |
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Other
than the Baroque-man GP-38 Paperweight I have heading up the work
train, I’ve separated my other train lines on separate levels. At this point, Burlington Route (CB&Q) runs on the
upper level and BN and Santa FE have their own loops on the table
level.
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Good brakes are important when HIGHPORT ROAD descends to "lower ground" level.
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At the foot of the roadway is a new addition on the layout, Lenny Gargoofarp’s SCRAP & SALVAGE. This started with a Scale Structures Limited “Automobile Junkyard”, which is a premolded rosin square. I simply sawed it into more manageable pieces to fit the area I had to work with. The larger building is DPM’s “Schultz’s Garage”, which I had saved from my previous layout.
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“Lenny Gargoofarp” was actually
a stage-name used by a college friend, who along with me and several others, made up the psuedo-circus performing act, THE FLYING NESBITTS, during our undergraduate days in the wild and crazy 1960’s . . . .
Don’t ask.
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To the right of the main SCRAP & SALVAGE building, the road continues on into the LOWPORT area.
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