Coal Trestle

 I Saw an article in Model Railroader magazine and thought I’d give it a go.

I drew up the plans in Xtrack-CAD, cut all the wood to size with my balsa strip cutter and stained all the wood with a wash of India.

The next step was to build a jig for the trestle construction.

Final assembly was done on a 1:1 plan printed from Xtrack-CAD

Fertilizer plant at Plant City

I made a very rough mockup to start figuring out that should go where.

The unloading dock was built out of 1mm extruded foam and dowel sticks.

The acid tanks are just two cookie tins left over from X-Mas and will have to do for now.

The main building will be a low profile one and will butt up against the backdrop ( yet to be installed) J

 I have added some siding on it now.

Last Peninsula

I have started work on the bench work between Plant City and Yeoman yard.

Bench work here is 9mm ply with 25mm extruded foam on the Plant City side.

The track elevation drops from 42” to 40” here.