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I have NOT been slacking! I rewired my entire layout with 14 gauge bus wire, built and then burnt a barn, had a train wreck with no wheels off the tracks, spent three hours today building cookie-cutter benchwork into my existing layout for the Mascoma River, and have started working on my paper mill! But I didn't take any photos of any of that until today. [:-^]Okay, first things first. Photos of wires are boring so I didn't take any. But here's my barn, built from an article in Model Railroader. That signal behind it that's missing the signal part will be built into my reversing section circuit and hopefully stop idiots like me from running onto it while set the wrong way.[IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/P1010856.jpg[/IMG]I used a lighter and a spray bottle (filled with water) to perform a series of controlled burns to the building. It was built on a piece of cardboard and was on the driveway...I'm not about to set fires indoors![IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/P1010857.jpg[/IMG]I was running a train to test my new wiring today and had a train wreck with no derailments...the truck screw dropped out and the truck came off.[IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/P1010839.jpg[/IMG]Time for the Mascoma River Crossing! Track is just laid in place and I hope to order the bridges this week.[IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/P1010852.jpg[/IMG]Riverbed will be built with plaster cloth...this isn't an underground river.[IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/P1010853.jpg[/IMG]Layout:[IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/P1010855.jpg[/IMG]Prototype (but with train tracks and another bridge next to it!): [IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/P1040672.jpg[/IMG] And finally, it's PAPAH MILL TIME! Foam foundation, Walthers Cornerstone Modulars walls. That corrugated metal structure is scratchbuilt from scraps leftover from my Pikestuff enginehouse and sheet styrene. [IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/P1010848.jpg[/IMG] Sorry for killing your dial-up folks...and if I crashed Joe's computer again!
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