Signs ( & other details)

One nice thing about smaller shelf layouts is that since you are not spending the bulk of your time building tall mountains and foresting them with thousands of trees, you get to spend more time on details, such as signs. It's the details that make the scene. In this case I have had multiple Bachmann sign packs sitting around for decades. You can tell they are old because the stop signs are YELLOW, exactly the way they existed in the early 1950s. Stop signs had white backgrounds until 1924 when they were ordered to become black letters on yellow signs. After 1954 the rule was changed to white letters on a red background.  Since this layout is deemed to be representative of the 1950s, the yellow signs fit in perfectly. This week I got to install a bunch of signs, RR cross-bucks, and crossing gates. The details add a lot to the scenes.

The South Westville - North Woodbury module is moving along. Grass and roads are in. The tracks have been wired but not yet tested, so the track ballasting remains on the "To Do" list. The houses of North Woodbury have been placed but the lights have not yet been connected.

The Holloway lumber yard in North Woodbury has been installed and stand-ins for the DelMonte food distribution center (South Westville) and the John Hack Pipe Supply (or Cornell Steel Fabricators (final vote not in yet.)) have been placed. I have some oversized Micro-Machine trucks at Holloway Lumber that actually fit in quite well.