I have been getting to many of my long, set-aside, unfinished projects recently. I am not sure how long this project has sat apart. All I know is that when I started it, many years ago, I made 6 pieces, only to find out I was limited by the 3 bases I had. So 3 of these pieces have sat for years. I did acquire the 3 needed bases over that time, but never got around to stripping the paint or repainting the bases, until now. Here are the 3 bases, painted.
I then assembled 2 of the 3 unfinished projects and could not complete the last one, as I ran out of eyelets used to attach the items to the bases. I did order some eyelets, so the last one should be finished in a week or two.
So here is the total project. The nearest 2 items are originals, plus the single remaining unfinished item. In between the nearest 2 sets of tracks are the 5 reproduction pieces, and then in the background are 2 more mystery originals.
Here is a closeup of the mystery originals, with one of the previously pictured originals in between. Note that these two originals are significantly taller and have no bases. I simply drilled holes in the piece of wood in order to mount these. Note that the mystery poles are unpainted below the cross arms and painted green above the cross arms. I believe that these may have been used on some sort of factory produced layout and were designed to simply slide into a hole in the layout. All I know is that I purchased them at York a few years ago.
NWL
