Lee University

JULY, 2006 

Presently, the BIG project is over in Nonaville where I’m beginning to put together that long stretch of highway by the large grain elevator and work on the train yard.  Presently I am adding a diesel refueling and sanding station.  Track has been removed and moved and more buildings “flip-flopped” . .  . . again.  I like to think of the process as “creative license”, rather than “indecision and lack of planning”.  Anyway, that area won’t be ready for a “photo op” until the end of the year, at the earliest. 

As I expressed in the last update, since I had a lot of writing to do this summer (and I was worn out from all that “corn manufacturing”), I spent most of my extra time the past several months finishing the railroad right-of-way around the Mine Peninsula and beyond.  Doesn’t make for a very exciting update, but it’s an update nevertheless . . .

	My WONDERFUL WIFE helped me add black draping to the edge of the  layout recently for a club open house. Obviously, this helps focus the eye on the top of the table rather than on all that raw wood and clutter beneath. I do have a slight raised border around the layout because of “little hands” who tend to want to reach for a moving car at times. Better safe than sorry.
	When one decides to have wire-strung poles along a highway, as I did in the farmland section, they do need to go somewhere!  I didn’t really want them to start at one side of the table and stop abruptly at the other side of the table, so I had made an early decision to turn the corner and head down the railroad right-of-way.
In addition to the poles along this portion of track, there was a lot of vegetation that needed to be added at the foot of the mountain. Taking advantage of a number of sales on the internet, I was able to find some tree kits I normally would not have used because of their expense. Again, a variety of kits gives a variety of texture.
	Whoops! I forgot to consider this small impediment at the corner of the layout. Over or through? It seemed the most picturesque choice was to simply take the poles up the mountain . . . .
	. . . Over the top. . . and down the other side . . .

Trains:  Page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34

Page 1 - Box Canyon Layout
Page 2 - Any Time, Any Spring Disclaimer
Page 3 - Starting Over, December 2003
Page 4 - March, 2004
Page 5 - June, 2004
Page 8 - Layout Design
Page 9 - August, 2004
Page 11 - January, 2005
Page 16 – January, 2005 Redux
Page 17 – First Day of Summer, 2005
Page 20 – August, 2005
Page 21 - In the Farmland, February 2006
Page 23 - Layout Potpourri, February 2006
Page 25 - In the Cornfields, 2006
Page 27 - July, 2006
Page 30 – November, 2006
Page 33 - MARCH, 2007 – A Break In The Action