Whiting Mine on the Arroyo

Started the Whiting Mine, from the Gilpin Tram this weekend. Card stock, wood and something new, balsa foam. The rocks are a test from a cutoff, what is pictured is about 10-15 minutes of test carving. This stuff is amazing. I've held off using it for lack of need and skepticism. Well, its great! Should have the Whiting mine up and running soon. Of course, its kind of a 1/3 or less of the structure.......

Sometimes You Just Don't Know................

Sometimes you just don't know what's going on around you. Local modelers may exist in your area and you just don't know it. I stumbled onto an O scale display layout in Pulaski, VA today. Pulaski is about 40 minutes down the road. The Raymond F. Ratliff Transportation Museum  http://www.theratcliffemuseum.com/ contains the Milton Brockmeyer Train Diorama. Milton lived in  Pulaski and built an O scale, two-rail layout with the entire town, all the buildings in the town that existed in the late 1920's. Cool. They even scratch built a N&W 611 that used a sewing machine motor! The locomotive was very well built. Worth a stop.

During the last week and this weekend, I made some progress on the Arroyo Tram, On30 module. I kept passing it to work on other things and the "white" just bothered me. So......

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I had to take a break as I ran out of Arizona Rock and Mineral scenery supplies. A quick search turned up their website, which is no longer working. However, they still have an eBay store, so off with some $$

On the Albion module, On2, I managed to get all the shingles on the Albion potato house, whew, no shingles for a while......