Johnbrandt brought a few festive buildings for the holidays. Dennis' Rudolf train made a holiday appearance.
Later, added some of our AmeriTown buildings that had been in boxes damaged by our "flood" couple of months ago. Looks like a good place to add more of the same since space is at a premium for buildings. Rudolf is still there. Must be a stash of magic corn in those buildings. Wonder if he'll fly away or is he got too much of a load.
Cut most of the ramps for the north side of the layout. Replaced my 45 year old saber saw, which did a good job but used an old style blade which is hard to come by (makes you feel good when tools you have are now obsolete). The new one does a good job and almost cuts by itself. This piece goes around the roundhouse.
The ramp will go up toward the north end.
From the north end, the ramp goes down.
Ted soldered the track to the twin bridges and connected the "Y" to the outer tracks on the trestle. He's taken his track laying skill to Level III. Holding off doing the north end until we locate the end of the trestle.
The west wall is a scenic challenge, especially with the inset of the windows and the trim. The scenery committee has some decisions to make. The trestle just cries "urban" background, not the scenery of our acquired scenery panels. Added a few of the crude cardboard building fronts I made long ago just to see how they look.
The members of OCSMR wish everyone a very Merry Christmas.
