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Lot's of progress has been made in the past 5 days.

Built my Atlas Passenger Station, ended up using the "Chesterfield" Station name.
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It seems I found a nice place for my K-Line Porter engine, and also a use for all the miscellaneous mini pieces that came with my Wye and O-72 Switches. Some atlas hairpin fence pieces are on their way to enclose the little display engine.
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I cut out a section of the top piece of foam to form the trench for my road to dip down and run below the bridge. I then took the cut out section and carved out my angle. Still needs a bit of tweaking. Doing it by hand with has been a pure annoyance. I'll be buying a hot foam cutting knife soon and redoing the ramp. I have enough extra foam that i can use the existing cut as a template. But for now i'm liking where this is going. I lined the walls with Chooch Flexible Large Random Stone Wall strips. These are nice because they actually have the rock texture, not just a flat image, and the ends have bricks sticking out to allow pieces to be locked together. I also needed to cut out part of the girder bridge walls to allow my passenger equipement access without ramming into it coming out of the O-31 curves. I'll do some more fine tuning later, as well as cutting the other side to match. I do plan to get a center bridge support to put under the bridge in the middle of the road. Also, the grass is temporary for the road. Need to start looking into what all materials are available for decent looking roads.
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Just finished drilling all my holes for the switch wires to run through. Ended up taking the back panels off the switch controllers and removing the wires. Poked them down through the drilled holes, and they'll be run to a little switch board i'm building. 
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I'd love to find a way to make an actual board with mini switches over a map of the layout. This would make it so much easier to figure out what switch lever goes where. If anyone is knowledgable about how to craft one of these, i'd love to pick your brain about it! Something like this:


For now, my little board will work just fine. 
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Thanks for checking out my updates!
Steve Lerro
www.KLtrainz.com

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