Progress Shots

[jwb]

Over at the other end of the layout, I've started a project that had been at the back of my mind very vaguely, but it began to eat at me actively after my last railfan expedition to the San Joaquin Valley. At least half of my modeling interest is California railroads, and this end of the layout has California scenery in many parts, but I hadn't included California type agri industries when I planned the layout 20 years ago. That's not all that bad, because it's taken me a while to get to the scenery on this end, and I built the layout with L-girder to allow various creative departures as I went along. So I realized several years ago that I could extend spurs into otherwise "dead" areas of the layout room using shelf brackets off the main benchwork. So here is the start of the Sunkist industrial track:
   
   
In two recent projects, I've been able to find enough space simply to extend existing spurs. Here is the existing jumping off point for this spur:
   
Since I hadn't added fascia or scenery here, it was no biggie just to add to the subroadbed and cruise right along. The subroadbed is from a layout baseboard I'd used in my N scale days a couple of homes back, now re-cut but with various flaws remaining from its prior use. Since this will be just an industrial spur, it will be OK even though it's a little light for HO.
   
Here is the other end of the additional baseboard segment, just laid in place with a press fit for now, risers to come later.