Wow Roger, that's impressive! I remember not long ago you were inquiring about ideas for a operating smokestack. What you did looks pretty neat. You must have added some sort of red light at the top of the chimney to get that burning effect, right?? Nice work on the factory windows too.
Though you did miss out on all the fun of ceaselessly badgering some company to manufacture this building for you, instead of making it yourself. Of course, I'm kidding. To me, these sorts of projects are the essence of the hobby: Either scratch building or kitbashing. In particular, I like seeing the creative and neat ideas some folks come up with for the very common Plasticville buildings. Or there was a series of articles in OGR some years ago where someone took very common train cars and kitbashed them into a Union Pacific work train.
And even if folks viewing your display are not serious train fans, they will certainly take notice of a large building like that, which you made yourself and depicts a piece of your area's local history.
Again, nice work!
