It's been 8 months?! got some catchin' up to do.
The modules went to Trainfest, the weekend after the Rockford show. I didn't get a chance to play, or take pictures, we were too busy at the GC Laser booth.
When I got home, and started to move the modules back to the basement, I discovered that there had been a significant amount of damage during the transit. I've been repairing things, and trying to figure out how to prevent more damage.
The old module set were all 24" deep, so there was room left in the trailer to use a "tension-er" to lock the modules in.
I couldn't do that with the 30" deep new modules, so what happened was --when the trailer "bounced", the modules "continued their upward motion" as the trailer came down, and the trailer was moving upward as it made contact with the downward moving modules .-.-.-.-.- and they were " beaten to death ". I'm still trying to figure out a way to hold them down, that is quick and easy to put in place, and tighten, as each module is loaded in the trailer ( there is a slight problem here, with sliding the modules into the trailer, and then rigging the hold-downs, that is keeping that project from being done ).
In the meantime, the lobster sloop was built, and the lobsterman's shack, and the pilings and dock.
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The finished "complex" in place on the module.( yeah, another "ship to rig" )
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I've rebuilt the staircase of the coaling tower, repaired the coal chute, and need to add the handrails, and posts, and paint the repairs.
I had to partially disassemble the freight house, and reassemble it, re-gluing everything that "shook loose".
The roof of the "Shipchandler's" had to be reattached, and the steel arch bridge decks had to be refastened.
I still have repairs to make on the sand tower, the water tank, and the turntable.
In the last two days, I started detailing the falls, where the stream enters the harbor. The plaster is still too wet to start the coloring process, so I have time to charge the camera batteries, and get some pictures taken in the next day or two.