IT'S BEEN ALMOST A YEAR SINCE MY LAST UPDATE.

I have been very busy with my train club.  Even with COVID our board of directors has been meeting regularly planning for the future. We have had to find a new place to hold our meetings as the church where we used to meet is no longer allowing out side groups.  And we are going ahead with plans to host our annual Beat The Heat train show. I have also been helping other club members with their layouts, mostly electrical problems (of course).  I formed a new club committee to help spouses of  deceased club members to dispose/remove/sell the husband's trains and layout.  We have help four families this year.  I have even bought a couple of estates and sold most of it on ebay.

NOW FOR A SHORT TOUR OF MY LAYOUT

Entering into the "yard".  The yard master's office in the distance.  A workman is bringing a wheelbarrow load of coal for the stove.

 

Round house

Small rural passenger station.  A railfan excursion train leaves from here.  Also, the Doodlebug commuter train will depart here.

Passengers waiting to board a train.

A group of workman are digging a new water line.

SOME NEW VIEWS FROM AROUND THE YARD AREA

These trees are all natural.  They are made from dormant flower clusters I cut off of a bush in the Kohl's parking lot while waiting for Gayle one day.

Drawing lines where the track will go.

Starting to lay roadbed for the track.  All the little dots on the roadbed are pushpins holding it down while the glue dries.

This piece of scenery is from an estate layout that I bought.  I was able to salvage it off of the old layout and just lay it on mine.  It is a complete farm scene with animals, garden, corn rows, a hay field and I have the house and barn that went with it.  I will have to blend it into the rest of whatever scenery I put on this wing of the table.

THE WHOLE TABLE WITH ALL THE ROADBED LAID OUT.

NEXT STEP - LAY TRACK AND THEN RUN A TRAIN.