Grout scenery experiment

I had a part bag of dark brown grout, so I though I would try it for some scenery. First I mixed it about half and half with ready to use drywall compound and added water to make it like soup. Then using old dried up wipes I dipped them into it and applied them to the layout. These went on quite well, blended well, and dried a pleasing light brown. Next I made up straight grout and dipped the wipes into it. The mixture, even though quite soupy, went on the wipes too dry and did not stick to the wipes very well, it was hard to apply to the layout, them did not blend or stick to each other well, seemed to shrink,and dried a dark brown, so I will not try that again.

fifty fifty mixture nice light brown

Straight grout, not suited to this application, although nice rugged texture

CPR train order hoop

I was given a train order hoop by my son-in-law's parents. The station master would hold it up with a train order attached and the engineer of the passing train would catch the hoop in his arm, remove the order and drop the hoop to the ground for the station master to retrieve .

The hoop with the order



Engine 8150









Zorra Station with a different train passing















Track Evaluation Car

Photo by Don Pearce was taken at the CN yard in Woodstock.

Tuesday night at the Huff and Puff

Tom's casting den

It was good to see Tom's knee felt good enough for him to come to the meeting, we sure need the castings. Bill was also there to get some building kits to assemble and paint, always nice to have extra help. Rod and Glen continued ballasting and Jim and Trent added more scenery to the power plant area, in front of the area of the backdrop I had paint earlier. The rest of the crew started planing the city area for Lincoln.





Ralph adds more plaster cloth

Don ponders the city layout

Don and Doug arrange the town of Lincoln with Rick and Cliff adding input

Power plant area

Cool, Clear Water



Piece of paper rolled up to show how to curl and place the strip

After painting an open top, water tank and weathering it, cut a strip of clear acetate slightly narrower than the height of the tank and about twice as long as the circumference.   Curl it up and place it inside the tank.  This will form a shelf on which to place a circle of acetate the diameter of the inside of the tank, for the top of the water.   Then cover the surface with Gallery Glass which will dry to a clear rippled surface.



Circle of acetate on top of curled up strip



Dispatcher by Gary

Gary PEMBLETON at work at CN as a dispatcher. B-2 was the territory between Kingston and Cornwall on the afternoon shift.  Thanks for use of the picture Gary.

Fascia town labels

This is a post for the future. When we get to running the layout we could make up new town signs which would have  E.   (town name).   W.  on them.  The railroad would run from east at Elsewhere to west at Wellington (I love the logic).  Knowing the towns are named alphabetically, if you  are done switching say Lincoln and have a car for Heron's Landing you would know you have to head 'E' or east. Here is a picture posted by Richard Harden in MRH of his town of Hardwood on his CNW Peninsula Div. of what the signs would look like. Thanks to Richard for the use of his photo.