"New modules"

[Sumpter250]

Spent the better part of the last week trying to figure out how I could re-do the mainline track supports in the area of the "tunnel", and it would require a major rebuild of that end of the module.....sooooo, the "tunnel" is going to stay.

It may, however, be " given a better face ", but not until after Trainfest.

I have started the rigging of the schooner. Some of the basic iron work is in, and the bobstay, and part of the rigging of the fore stay, from the stem up to the bowsprit, has been done.
an over all shot.
   
The chain bobstay, and the fore stay rigging.
   
you can see the chainplates ( 3 ) just by the forward port lite of the main cabin.
   
This shot of the schooner Stephen Taber, from the web, is what I am using as a guide for the rigging under the bow sprit.
   
I took a week long cruise in Taber in Sept., 1969. She's 140 years on the water this year ( 2011), and still cruising !!!
Both she, and the schooner Grace Bailey, were built within 20 miles of where I grew up....and a " day or six " before I was born...........although, lately, I'm beginning to wonder about that part........they're not looking as old as I feel. :o