Rainbows in the Lehigh Valley Gorge

[TMo]

A Silverfish invasion would certainly be bad news for my layout.

I've been working on a 8-mm VCR over the last couple of days - trying to make the thing operational by buying a parts machine.  Trouble is, you never know if the parts you want are still in good shape.  In this case?  2 days of futility and I've come to the realization that 30-year-old plastic parts just aren't going to hold up much longer.  Sony doesn't stock the parts and the leftovers are cracking too.  Time to junk her.  Another refugee of the disposable goods economy.

After that frustration, I got back to some building of the White Haven LVRR station.  The four exterior walls have been completed aside from some detail work and foundation adds on three of the sides.  In preparation for the roof, I built one of 32 of the rafter trusses (equilateral triangle-shaped truss in the center of the photo) that will support the extended roofline on each long side of the building.  Each truss is made from six pieces of sliced paper siding glued back to back.  Tedium x 32!  

   

Several loading docks and steps from the doorways will also have to be built, and all of the corners will get corner trim after assembly.  The roof fascia boards on the prototype have scalloped edges.  I don't think I want to drive myself nuts doing that, but I may....