I spent a few minutes adding a little detail to the General Store, then clearing the area where it will be cemented...
The workbench is a bit cluttered, but the 2-8-8-2 is there! Trying to build some custom airpipes, this is the first try. Going to have to do it again.
I've cemented the Store in place and had a few moments to work on the gas pump island... very nice casting from Showcase Miniatures... these castings come (2) to a package, along with a bagged ice freezer and Coke machine... card stock signage is provided (Although I would have preferred decals) I painted mine in a red/white scheme...and cleared an area in front of the Store where it will go... Here, the island is temporarily in place...I still have to pick out the nozzles and hoses, along with painting the oil can display (I may have to search for appropriate decals for this)...I also will paint the vertical edges of the island a 'safety' white. Although this 2' module is fairly simple...it's going to soak up a ton of details...road signage, highway barriers, wire fence, grade crossing, a few more distant trees...then static grass and weeds. Bruce
Just thought I'd share some photos of N Scale cars from my railroad's paint shop. M-T done with dry transfers and chalk weathering. I no longer recall who manufactured the transfers. M-T with decals, Microscale I think: M-T appeared to have forgotten the L&NE, so I painted these using old Northeast Decals. Some years later M-T awoke and made the same: M-T has never done a NYO&W hopper. Prototype photos of these are very rare. I pieced together portions of photos to approximate what they probably looked like and used more old Northeast Decals. An old cylindrical covered hopper from the scrap bin was used to make up a car from a fictitious short line from the central Carolinas:
Here are some of the deck fittings: oversize winches and windlasses, deck houses, fire monitor stations, cargo cranes, hose handling cranes, anchor pockets.
A few more N freight cars from the paint shop, an SAL covered hopper (I saw these on trains into the mid 1980s, so had to paint one) and an NYO&W bobber caboose.
I need a longer workbench. I mean, when you consider what I'm using as inspiration: http://www.railpictures.ca/main-pag...iction-at-the-little-pic-river-bridge-mile-73
That's not my workbench! The actual workbench is on the other side of the shelving unit in the background and it's just that my (hopefully) future layout just happened to have a long enough flat surface to display the first half of my Canadian that I finally assembled the cars for. (At minimum I need 2 more cars [E/Chateau sleeper and a Park Car] before I can begin to say it's complete. However, I probably also want a Budd coach, Manor sleeper and a Chateau/E sleeper as well before I feel comfortable saying that it's complete.)
I finally got the parts of my workbench out of the pile of train related wood in the garage and down into the basement, followed by the layout module benchwork parts. This long weekend goal is to get the workbench usable again. Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk
