Hi All,
Earlier this week I sent a message that went to the entire group that
should have only gone to Bill Winans (oh, well, who hasn't done that,
right?). So, to follow up on that e-mail, this week I've taken a detour
from my passenger station construction, by working on a small structure
I started almost 4 years ago.
I started scratchbuilding this small structure that was supposed to be a
section house modeled after the PRR's standard drawings for such a
building. The building was started while I didn't have anything S-scale
(no engines, cars, anything). I then made some good progress on it while
Hurricane Ike hit Houston in September 2008, when we didn't have power
for several days (and 100+ degree temperatures). There wasn't anything
else to do, literally. Well, I've decided to re-purpose the structure.
It is now going to be a simple shop ("iron works"). I completed the
basic building this week. Tonight or tomorrow I am going to work on
integrating it into the scenery of the layout, as well as work on some
external details of the building. You can see the progress so far at the
bottom of this page:
http://pmrr.org/Structures/PRRToolHouse/index.htm
I also did some work on the passenger station. I came up with the idea
of making a sign like you see in the real world announcing the future
construction of some building on a site. You can see that on this page
(there is also one additional progress photo on the wall construction
page of that article):
http://pmrr.org/Structures/CanonsburgStation/index.htm
Finally, I added an overall-view photo of the recently scenicked spur,
just in case you're interested:
http://pmrr.org/Layouts/Chartiers/CanonsburgScenery.htm#jul8
Have a great weekend,
- Peter.
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Peter Vanvliet ([email protected])
Houston, Texas
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