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Monday evening. A perfect time to go on a walk in the Santa Teresa County park and enjoy the slowly setting sun.

[Schrebergarten posts] Garden spots are small and of course fenced off. You certainly don't want kids to run across nearby tracks. Another Noch kit provided the fences. When convenient I glued the various pieces together with plastic glue, and mounted them on the baseboard using regular white glue. Just before dinner, I ran out of fence to install, but you get an idea of how the two garden plots are laid out. Garden plants and greenery is next.

[Schrebergarten posts] I had planned the garden spots in Talheim for a while, so I've been collecting various supplies for them over time. One of these is Noch's garden sheds kit. This is a set of small sheds made from laser-cut cardboard. I intend to use the two small sheds, but ended up building all three. The kit comes with the appropriate glue, so there is no guesswork involved on that front. Putting it together is as easy as one might think (how hard could this possibly be?), and the resulting sheds are surprisingly sturdy. Shed 1 was put together in no time and is a cute little building. The roof is made from rather thin cardboard. I'll need to take some care when working around these little sheds. Shed 2 is slightly more involved, but came together quickly as well. I messed up the wall angles a bit when gluing one side of Shed 3, but noticed it only when reviewing the finished building and wondered where that gap came from. So, as it turns out, while it is an easy ...

[Schrebergarten posts] The area between the Koef shed and the mainline in Talheim has an odd shape. In real life the prototype would allow creation of "Schrebergaerten" (garden spots) on such unusable property along the tracks. I can do the same. In order to build the gardens off the layout, I cut a base piece from poster board. I painted the board my standard earth brown, sifted fine sand into the wet paint, and left the board alone to dry, while working on something else .   A couple hours later, I returned to the board and ... well, that didn't work. The poster board had warped and the paper cover came off. On the second try I used insulation board as the base, painted it, sifted sand, and left it to dry. Time for some sheds .

[Hallelujah Paper posts] At first I thought there are parts missing for the plant office, until I realized that the vertical sections are not to be filled with additional plastic pieces, but rather be painted... Hrmpf. Fine. So I did. I spray-painted the walls in a more appealing color than the rather ugly gray molding they came in, and brush painted the vertical sections in Floquil Roof Brown, which creates this rather ugly color combination one often sees in seventies industrial buildings that want to be cool. The main entrance door was indeed missing, though, along with the canopy over the entrance. The canopy was quickly made from a piece of flat roof. I decided to look at the club for the missing door ... and then changed my mind and built it from strip styrene. I used Evergreen .030x.040 cut to size on the NWSL Chopper, and a strip of .010x.040 strip styrene for the floor piece. After testing the fit with some adjustments, I spray painted the door frame and mounted it with the gl...

Train 376 on the way from Nowheres to Bakersfield. Engineer Franziska just got clearance from SVL Dispatch to proceed to the bottom of the loop.

[Hallelujah Paper posts] Once I move the spur back a little the warehouse will fit well in the space. Clearances are fine. As expected, I need to cut back the end wall a little bit, too, to have enough space. I will need to dig out that old track from the homasote. A car spotted at Door 7.