Friday, 5 December 2025

December This and That.

Next to nothing done or accomplished on the actual layout this week.  However, I have been trying to figure out whether I can find a way to use this image that I found online somewhere on the backdrop of the layout.
I don't know where it is or what this building is used for.

First step though is to try to square it up a bit
I used the straighten and perspective tools on my Paintshop program to get this far along, but when doing so a bit of the top right corner of the building's elevator shaft is lost.  More on this if or when I get any further along on it.


But in the meantime, as I try to figure that all out, here's a photo that Brian Smith sent me from his layout.  A real nice look through open boxcar doors of a worker moving freight on the loading dock.
Good stuff here Brian.

I received these few items from Otter Valley Railroad.  Two ESU decoders, Kadee #158 couplers because I had run out of them, and a bottle of Plastruct Plastic Weld just in case I ever get around to building a couple of kits that I've had waiting to be put together.
The decoders are pretty basic 8-pin decoders, not for sound equipped engines.

It was hard not to notice this boxcar rolling around on the layout this week.  This one makes an occasional appearance since I painted and lettered it about 3 or so years ago, and then weathered it sometime after that.
I've often wished this was an 86 footer in the 8-door variety, although I don't really think the AnnArbor had any like that.  I'm not too sure how I could lay out these decals on an 8-door car anyway.

And a look at GT 6212 which was leading the auto parts cars

That'll have to be all for now.  Happy December everybody.  Stay warm.