With the book in hand and shipping (thanks to everyone who ordered the book!) it's time to turn my attention back to the layout, and to ...

Finished the ice cream parlor for Main Street in Enosburg. This is the one spot on the "outer loop" of the layout that has no scen...

I worked from home yesterday meaning I had a few minutes in the early morning (on a typical day that would have been spent on the VRE) and a...

Other than operating on the layout a few times, I really haven't done much on the layout since we went to Cocoa Bach back in January. I ...

When we removed the Charlton Branch section from Jason's layout we had to cut through the river. Although it went pretty well, the water...

 

The shingled potion of the roof on shows the results of this method of coloring roof shingles.  A quick tip that I stole from someone else b...

This is the approximate position of the Magoun Store.  With the Missisquoi River crossing scene completed it's time to head to the oppos...

I haven't really posted much on the blog the last five or six weeks - but that doesn't mean things haven't been busy in my model...

 

Before I left on my current work trip I got a start at building some houses that will eventually end up on Depot Street in Enosburg Falls. T...

Atlas Plywood in Richford is in the background. P. R. Hastings   I've spent some time this morning gathering the information I have on t...

Jack Delano photo, Sep. 1941, Library of Congress, colorized from original black and white.   I've been working on drawing up some of th...

 Work continues on the Streeters Store area of the Junction.  But what I've really been working on this past week is cleaning up and org...

 

The next project is getting the scenery completed in the Sheldon Junction scene between the junction crossing itself and the large river cro...

I built this model about a little more than year ago (I think!). I thought I'd described it on the blog but apparently had never posted ...

 

Not a great deal of progress in the basement this week, but I did manage to get the feed mill (the "Clear Brook portion of the Streeter...

  The Junction scene can have some structures - but the prototype scene that's inspiring it was really in the middle of nowhere, with a ...