Sunshine, Palm Trees and a Food Industry...

The interconnecting module has been fully wired up...

Holes to pass the plugs through have been made with a drill and jigsaw... (very roughly I might add !)

Plenty of slack on the plugs...

I have one more module to wire up and at this stage, I will only wire it for two sidings as I still haven't made my mind up as to what I will model on the module, but I am liking the idea of Trujillo...

Now I can put these two completed modules back into place and do a test run with a locomotive. Fingers crossed it all works !

Cheers, Gary.

 

May layout update... enjoy !



Cheers, Gary.

 

I have started to build the Trujillo & Sons building for the layout.

After studying the prototype from various angles, I took the best bits from it and selectively compressed the building to suit the space I have allocated. Here are some prototype pics from Google Earth...

A few sketches with some very basic measurements and what I wish to capture on the model...

After measuring it all up, it was time to draw a few lines onto the 3mm thick box board and start cutting it all out. The pic below shows the left hand end of the building (silo end).

I'll be back on the job on Sunday morning, hoping to have the building all glued up with all walls in place etc.

Cheers, Gary.

 

Slowly the building is coming together. Apart from the rear walls, everything is going along as planned. I did decide to strep back the smaller single story section of the building to give a little more character to the building. Just moving it back 12 scale inches makes a difference to how it looks.

Plenty of gussets have been added to help keep the model square. More will go in when the roof is applied.

Being an older building, I will have a few concrete patches in the wall where the door ways once were when the building served 40' boxcars and reefers. The hatching shows where these patch ups will be.

I will be leaving one door in the up position so that the interior can be seen. A floor was glued into place and eventually an interior will be added.

More as it happens.

Cheers, Gary.