Tuesday night at the Huff and Puff

Ballast samples were shown to the members. Chick grit which is a ground granite (white with black specks), was chosen for the mainline and a silica sand for the branch line. The granite needs to be ground a little more because it is a little larger than we want. I'm going to try to tone it down with a dark grey wash. The stable bedding sand was rejected.
The branchline to the Lincoln Station was moved and laid down with the new siding to the Lincoln Station added.
We will be adding a turnout on the west end Lincoln passing siding, to connect to the sidings for Buckley Mills (which will be replaced by the large stone building to be named Gay Lea Foods), Allen Lumber and City Services, and La France. This will make them all, needed east bound switching, and move them out of Lincoln proper, reducing switching congestion there. The Piggyback Ramp could not be moved as it would reverse the direction of the cars and the truck on it, so the truck doors would be facing the ramp instead of the front end.
Larry M. Brought in a shelving unit and made a track storage box for the club. It was positioned under and behind the cupboard under Ortona, Rick added a couple lengths of track to it. Mike brought in some lumber to build the branchline benchwork and let's not forget all the plywood Jim F. supplied. Jim L. brought in a pail of plaster of Paris for casting rocks. Thanks to all of you.
Rob counted cars for me. This information is needed to make up our new Train Order cards. Thanks Rob.
Cars were added as needed to their starting locations and several trains were made up, for mainline running. As far as I know, all went smoothly. Three new Train Order cards we reviewed by the membership and a spelling mistake was pointed out to me, I'd like to say I did this on purpose to see if people actually perused them. How come spell check missed that one?
Next week is meeting and work night. What needs to be done?
We could install the plywood for the branch line behind Lincoln and install the ceiling tiles on it.
We could move and install the small turntable from Lincoln to Ortona.
We could attach some branchline feeders.
We could do some ballasting.
We could mount Larry's shelf unit under Lincoln.
We could move the sidings in Lincoln as explained above, and rewire them.
We could start installing some branchline track, when that benchwork is completed.
We could move Schell Industries to where the turntable was removed.
We could move Buckley Mills to the old Schell Industries siding and put Gay Lea where it was. Do we want to rename it as a Cold Storage?
We could discuss if we want to add another siding to Great Lakes Steel, for box cars and coil cars.