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Here's another shot of the main street area. :wave: You can see the new building, the alleyway, the gravel parking area for the car dealership all in one pic. :D :D It looks really compressed in the picture, but is much more spread out in "real life". :eek: Anyway, the main street area is...

Well, here we go. Got one of the building sort of finished -- still need to work on the inside of the building, lights, curtains, etc, but we got it on the layout. It finished out one side of the street as far as major structures go. Here's an overview shot of main street with the car...

Hi all. Well, as you can tell its been a little quiet on the ol' Alamo Southwestern line. :( Previous weekend was a visit to my Mom's and this past weekend was tied up with Easter and all -- not much time to work on the railroad or even surf The-Gauge. Trying to catch up now on postings...

Bywater, I really enjoyed reading your description of the old engine heading out...You wrote: "Then the 745 came up on us, getting bigger and bigger, and closer and closer. The engine grew nearer to the sound of its pistons rhythmically hissing steam, smoke belching from the stack, steam...

EMT49, Just kidding with you guys -- we're not really that sensitive about your responses :D ...... Now, if we don't here for a couple of days, well then....... :eek: I'm glad you like to follow the pictures -- we like posting them -- gives us a real sense of accomplishment to post our...

Spitfire, thanks for the tip. We'll try to spruce up the downtown area (pun intended). ;) Will put this on the ever growing list of things we need to do on the layout -- do you all find this to be the case -- every time you get one area on the layout going you think of 20 other things you...

J&A, your layout is looking awesome! :thumb: :thumb: I can't believe you made those grain elevators from scratch -- they look great! I like the weathering you did on them.

Sounds like a challenge!! :) Not sure exactly what to do, but we'll see what we can figure out. Someone on the gauge must have some examples to pattern! ;) So much to do to make the layout look realistic. I thought about putting a couple of trees near the tracks on the gravel company area...

Another one of main street. It's starting to get some traffic....

No responses, so you MUST NEED MORE PICTURES ! :) :confused: :) Here are a few more pics of the gravel area.

Here's my entry........... Here I am hanging out on the hood of my 1965 Shelby Cobra -- just waiting around at the car dealership. (Car's not for sale, just passing time).

Let us know what you think -- we had a great day working on the railroad :) :wave: :wave: :wave:

As mentioned, we also started working on the gravel company site. This is one of our major milestones, so we are excited about progress in this area. We had to do some additional plaster work to grade the other track line surface around the gravel company, so that took a bit of time. We then...

A little paint and as you can see in the previous photo, no real problem. I actually like the pothole repair. :p :)

As I mentioned, we had a bit of an incident with the road. When we pulled up the drafting tape, it took a bit of the road with it :eek: :mad: We tried to put it back into place, but to no avail. So......we decided to fill our first pothole. :) We made some new road material and then...

Well, we've been working on several projects on the layout this weekend. Two main things we focused on were the gravel area next to the car dealership and the gravel area around the actual gravel company. For the gravel around the auto dealership, we masked off the road (more on that later)...

Thanks Guys ! :) :thumb: We are researching how to weather the new station deck. We're thinking that a bit of sanding around the door areas and sun focused areas would be great. We're also thinking about an ink with alcohol treatment of the planks would be a good idea -- get some additional...

We think it looks better already. Need to figure out what to do with the area just outside of the station deck area -- will probably cover it with grass and bushes. Busy week at work, so not too much progress. Hope this doesn't seem to simplistic stuff to post, but it is our progress, be it...

Here's the material we used.

Obviously needs a lot of work (not to mention being painted). So we got some wood strips that were scored and then stained them (Early American is the color). It at least has the look of a plank wooden platform. It looks a bit bright now, but we'll soon dull it up and weather it. Here are a...