After some evening scrictehbuilding activity after full days of work, Forest Junction Hardware Supplies is nearly completed

The front wall of the building has been constructed and detailed. Detail has been added to the interior of the building in the form a loading platform, some people and some industrial clutter.

SO far, the industry for the 'ornary' corner of the CSFT layout near the Bluwall printers building is coming along well. The basic structure has been completed, with some extra bracing for strength. The trackwork inside the building has been completed. Along with the back wall, and the front wall (in relation to the front of the layout).

As part of some content I am providing for an eBook provider, I had the idea of designing and building a HO scale micro layout in a suitcase. Talk about a challenge! It required a lot of thinking 'outside the square', and working out ways to make the layout interesting to operate while keeping costs down and having interesting scenery.

It seems like eons since I last did any real scenic work on the CSFT. But last night I started on a new low relief industry for the area next to Bluwall printers. For quite some time the area has been a bit of an eyesore.

If you have been in the model railroading hobby for any considerable length of time you may have come across a modeller or 3 who have a passion for getting everything on their layouts to be an exactly copy of the prototype.

With the 2.5 (or is it 3) layouts that I now have I have noticed a considerable difference in how each is operated. If anything, this makes oeprating the layouts even more enjoyable as there is a different emphasis on each one.