I've been busy this weekend. Saturday afternoon I ballasted the layout. A layout this small doesn't take much ballast and doesn't take long to do it.

Then on Sunday brim full of confidence I set to and worked on the fiddle yards . Of course 'fiddle yard" is a very grandiose for what these will be. Just some plain baseboards with lengths of track fixed to them. Its all I need for such a small layout.

However, once again my woodworking abilities failed me. Things like allowing for the thickness of the saw cut are lost on me. Luckily I managed to get away with it and come away with two serviceable baseboards 28" x 11". This kind of thing gets me down a bit so I decided to take a few pictures to:

a) Cheer me up and,

B) Allow me to take a good close look and see how things are coming along. You can't hide from the unbiased eye of the camera. Overall I think things are coming along well.

From the roof of the main building this is the kind of view that the HVAC repairman would get

The Genset is pushing a car towards the vending machine suppliers warehouse

A view no-one but the layout operators will see. A boxcar spotted at the outside loading dock of the main building

Another view of the Genset spotting the boxcar at the vending machine suppliers

General view of the whole layout.

The pictures did their job and cheered me up no end