East Terminal & Newburgh

[Schraddel]

Hello,

have i told to you, that i earned my money during my academic studies as part-time truck driver? No, not one of these 18-wheelers but with a humble 7 1/2 ton truck:

This was the truck which had built in 1:87 too. The business was railway related, here the LCL was brought to the customers were the rails did not reach.




And this was the daily chaos beneath the canvas top. You will learn here as inevitable consequence packing the things in a space saving manner. So in the way i did when packing my humble car for the annual SWD convention at Wolfersweiler 2019.




Back from the convention i thought there was need for an extension of Flats. Especially with the right end there was only a short stub of track after the last switch behind Anderson Steel. Only long enough to take a single loco.
In my attic i found this shelf of 120cm x 20cm seize.


This older photo shows the lenght i have for disposal. More exact it was a lenght of 123cm still available.





So i started to built Flats Extension for home use. The initial planning allotted a #6 switch for a additional stub.





This was a 100% recycling project. The shelf is a massive sheet of wood of 2cm thickness.
The cork roadbed was glued onto teh surface and roughly shaped.







To get the plywood district out of your head, it hampered my thoughts, the shelf was painted with a earth-coulored water based dye.


All went it's own way until i told my plans about Flats Extension to Hardy...



Lutz