This afternoon it hit.

The enthusiasm.

I felt the need to start work on the APA box layout. Perhaps the nearing deadline of the Granite City Train Show prompted me into action. Whatever, I felt the need to work.

I'm 4000 miles from a location that doesn't exist anymore so fidelity to the prototype isn't an issue with regards to size. Especially so as everything is supposed to fit in an APA BOX. So I just cut card to the right sort of shapes and sizes, measuring it against hopper cars and locos until I felt it looked right.

I think for a roughed in shape it's about right. Tomorrow I should clad the shape in Scalescenes corrugated effect paper and work on the scenic development of other end.