Tantalizingly close to completion of the benchwork by carpenter. He is using 1/8" MDF for the backdrop and 1/2" MDF for the layout base over the benchwork. I can't wait until I have full control back of my basement and I can start in earnest.

I will be using Atlas Code 55 track. No matter what I did with the Kato Unitrack, it just never looked right to me after ballasting, etc.

FINALLY, sheetrock in the basement. Those of you who know me, know how long I have waited. Now, taping, painting, and then............
The expansion of the LLL to new towns, cities, and industries.

Finally, visible progress.

Basement walls have disappeared, ceiling and firring stips on ceiling have disappeared, 1950's-60's Dean Martin Memorial bar has disappeared and electrical roughing put in.

Two drinking glasses (artifacts) discovered behind old walls along with what can only be described as an ancient thubbscrew.

The bar was a travail. Two demo people with sledge hammers took well over an hour to knock it down and cart it out. It was real brick,...

Good News

My contractor is alive.

Bad News

He went away for a week or so.

As many of you know, I am redoing my basement to accommodate an expansion. The major problem is that it is too small for a legitimate contractor to handle. A neighbor across the street will be the GC, although he is a carpenter by trade.

The demolition guy is raring to go.
The plumber cut out the water and drain lines of the 1960's era bar that is going to disappear.
Next is an electrician to cut the power to the lines that the demolition guy might electrocute himself...