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First Day of Summer, 2005
Another very busy semester. Lots
of travel, lots of concerts, and a little project called doctoral orals
seem to have monopolized most of my efforts since January.
Here it is, June, and I had anticipated completing two projects
around the layout this past five months.
First, I wanted to complete the bottom inside of the “J” and
over the past four months, little by little, I was able to pretty much
finish this section.
Secondly, I wanted to complete that proposed tunnel below the mine
peninsula. This didn’t
happen. So, to stay on
schedule . . . . . Schedule?
What schedule?!?….. I put in all my spare time the past four weeks on
the tunnel and immediate area. Taking
hours out for two compositions, seven days out in Texas at a band camp,
six days in our Lee University Music Camp, sleeping five or six hours a
night, rehashing the season closing episodes of “Lost”,
over-utilizing the pause button on my VCR, and DESPAIRING through the final episode of “Enterprise”,
I probably had about 13 hours remaining for “train-time”.
Somewhere in there, I also painted our newly decorated master
bedroom for THE WONDERFUL WIFE WHOM I’VE MENTIONED BEFORE, proving
once more that there is no limit to the sacrifice
grown
men will make for model trains!
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Obviously, the unifying factor between the residential and industrial
portion of this area is the vast wooded area. (Just to check the quality of my work, I did incorporate 5 ready-made trees into
the diorama and decided that mine look just as good. Not to mention that I could build nearly 60 kit trees for the same
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| Here, the inside of the “J” is viewed from above the mine peninsula
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| The industrial area consists of the Railroad Design “Delaney Ironworks”
and another use of the “United Trucking Transfer Terminal” kit from Cornerstone. One change here. The newer Terminal
kits are not even close to being as thick as the original kit pictured earlier in these train pages. It only took about
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| Like the former building in town, I put in a new floor and “worker
stuff”. The “boxes” and “crates” in the background are
simply foam board cut into blocks and painted black or red. |
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The arch between the buildings appears in the original “Ironworks”
configuration to be a truck passageway, however, I raised the buildings to facilitate the passage of boxcars.
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We know something about these people....They have to be REALLY AVID
TRAIN LOVERS to live THIS close to the tracks. As you can see, the
local is rumbling past as Dad finishes the lawn. Stepping from his Cub
Cadet, he notices that that Mom is pointing out something to his son,
Jehozadak.......(OK, you name the kid! I can’t do EVERYTHING!!!)
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Even with all the clickity-clacking rail noise, the local deer are
impervious and certainly more interested in grazing than train-fanning.
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Over to the left side of the “J”, highway traffic stops for the
crossing lights. (This sharp looking Karmen Ghia with a travel trailer was a gift from a friend from Portland. Rick said it reminded
him of the car he had in his young carefree days. Knowing Rick, I would imagine that in his “carefree” days he probably was
responsible for ALL those signs around the country like the one on the rear of that Billboard in the background!)
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And now construction begins for the final tunnel on the Layout. I
simply start with a chicken wire form . . .
(Note the rather barren background. There will be some changes coming.)
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2007 –
A Break In The Action
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