A huge thank you....!

 Just a shout out to all those looking at this website for my layout for the fact it just turned over 10,000 views yesterday! So a BIG thank you to all....!

Railfan outing part two.....

 This next time out along the subdivision finds us watching 8806 working Monsanto chemical, Armitage Furniture, Stephen's Grocery distributors, and the team track. Photos below with captions:

8806 starting it's day working Monsanto 

In this series of photos it's a busy day switching out various chemical tank cars 

In this series of photos the crew is changing out an empty reefer for a PRR boxcar 

We also as shown above saw the crew spot and all door car full of lumber at Armitage plus an PC boxcar at the team track dock. More to come soon.....!

Finished and on the layout....!

 Here is the finished Downtown Deco building flat now on the layout. I had to lay down a thin strip of cork to sit the building on so to keep it aligned straight. This was then covered with dirt and industrial dirt plus some additional scrap thrown around it. Extra ballast was added on the end track to cover a small gap as well. Photos below:

Coming soon as well....

 Coming soon to the layout are end of track signs, wheel stops, and pallets from Scale Signs. Ill post when these arrive and are placed on the layout....

Next railfan outing part one.....

 We recently went out along the river on the Cincinnati terminal subdivision and caught more local switching action. Here are some of the action we caught with NW2 8806, mostly on this trip working Monsanto:

Part two we'll cover the next railfanning trip....

Coming soon to the layout....

 Coming soon and on order is this industrial flat background building from Downtown Deco that will fit perfect against the short wall and printed backdrop. I'll post photos when this guy is painted and weathered and ready to go on the layout:

Overall view....

A short post today simply showing two overhead views of the layout today:

 

Railfan day....

 Today we caught the local crew out of Riverside yard switching out Monsanto chemical. Below are photos of 8806 and crew going about their work:

Extending the siding....

 Yesterday I did what I should have done to begin with, and that's extend the team track siding to accommodate an entire freight car. This was a pretty quick project, finished this morning with glueing the ballast down and installing the track bumper. Photos below: 

Additional backdrop.....

 Yesterday I finally installed another piece of backdrop I had to cover the short wall at the scrapyard end of the layout. This is in preparation also to accommodate the addition of a background building coming soon hopefully for that end that will cover most of the wall section. More on the building later but for now, here's before and after shots of the wall section: