B Fasth Warehouse 2...

... is the name on building adjacent to the teamtrack.

I´ll guess that the contractor´s name was Potemkin... Front and back together

A new picture with the name on the building.

Kowal Mfg...

... are an new industry on the home layout. A big manufacturer of Barbed wire sending it westward by train. I'm using a Walthers "Allied Rail Rebuilder" and a Faller "Gantry Crane". There will also be propane unloading equipment and a storage tank on the other side of the track at the "old facility"

Ma Baker's Juice & Soda...

... is a small industry along the railway in Crawford.

The building and factory is totally freelance :)

First sketches:

A first wiew

More Photos...

Valley Growers Elevator and a NW2 with a MoW ballast hopper.

Northways along the track.

Freighttrain with two "Q" GP7.

B.Ericson Salvage Yard with gantry crane.

Teamtrack and train.

Southways along the track.

Modules and houses...

Decision taken and action made to expand the Mill Street section to the double lenght (1080mm)


Front wiew of B Fast(h) Warehouse


Painting windows

Building buildings :)

A two week period of work created a lot of inspiration... At first a wiew along the tracks...


Mars Textile, named after my late grandfather, having an extended loading platform which will allow two boxcars to be loaded or unloaded at the same moment.


B. Fast(h) is an industrial building overlooking the yard from a small hill. Connected to this there will be an old boxcar converted to a shed down by the siding on this side.

The plan is to make a full interior that will be shown from "outside"

Just for fun...

The Depot section are now enough ready to make some switching (and testing). The module set have been mounted in the right place but still there are some stuffs that hasn´t been moved.

The shelf are going to be replaced by a background and som lights.


Just for fun a number of buildings and cars were placed on their right location to test the appearence


Tomorrow it's time for the missing four switch controls to get in place...

On demand!

A pair of simple sketches of the houses and freight house.

Measures in mm


Bigger picture

On the module:

Almost there

Even if the ground got the same color as yesterday the building made a change to the better. I like the combination with red and green that "The Q" used. Next step now is to make the middle section ready for the building.

Change!

Change is a popular word in some countries. And on Crawford too. Instead of a Santa Fe inspired Walthers kit there going to bee a scratchbuilt smaller structure as depot. The appearence are borrowed from a drawing in an old "Model Railroader".

With brown primer it looks like chocolate but it´s going to be "indian red" and "oxide green" instead.

Roofs and windows

This weekends small works. The storage shed and "Jensen Motor" got roofs and windows.


A closer look, to close? Who stole the stairs ;)


"Jensen Motor" still missing one window thats going to be replaced by a sheet of plywood or something similar.

Housebuilding!

Two small houses and a freight shed standing on the workbench. The buildings are scratchbuilt with "Evergreen" Clapboardsiding as walls and are now waiting on details and paint.

Landscaping

This evening there was a half hour of landscaping. At first the "raw" creek.


Then the garage of Jensen Motor


And at last the place where farmers coop will place there storage shed.

Tracklaying finished

I made a fast decision and used a Peco c55 flextrack instead of the missing Atlas to the elevator track.

I also tested the location and height of the depot but nothing is decided yet.

With addition

A small building for the passengers added

Depot building

The Depot at Crawford Valley will be a kitbashed Walther SF Freight shed. I´m going to add some space for the waiting passengers.

Not to bad

Todays there was just some time to test the ideas and place the structures as planned.
One special is the track on the "outside" of the buildings, please notice the safety arrangement that will keep the trains on the right place despite the short distance to the edge.

Here´s also the hardboard that outlines some of the roads visible.

Roof, doors and windows

Some small progress yesterday evening.

The elevator with some paint

The kit a number of steps further. The corrugated metal sheets got a rusty look with dry brushed silver paint and then a rust wash. The windows and doors got som Burlington Green to make the building a bit more colorful. Tomorrow the elevator will hopefully got the roofs on and a number of more details attached.

Time for buildings

One of the buildings will be Walthers "Valley Growers Ass." which will add some traffic in boxcars (with grain doors) or covered hoppers depending to which era the traffic session will be in.