I have a confession to make. I like lists. Always have probably always will.

I like to catalogue and I like to plan. I'm one of those sad people who love spreadsheets and I can still remember the thrill I had when I first started writing databases.

Even as a boy I kept them. A list of all the books I had read, started in the back of a large red diary that I still have tucked away in a box somewhere. Throughout the years I have added to this list with every book I have read. It migrated across to journals and then a spreadsheet and now an Access database. There's a large number of Ray Bradbury books on that list, most of which have multiple entries.

Soon it will have to migrate to something new that I can access on my phone or tablet. Or maybe back to pen and paper.Because for all the technology I still like the mechanics of pen and paper. The tactile physicality of it. Jottings in a notebook or diary.

For now though I'm thinking of a list I need for the Green Town Railway, a list of the buildings and places that I want to represent, the locations that were essential elements of the books and stories, and of Waukegan itself.

So let me bring out a yellow nickel tablet, or in my case an ASUS and dispense with the yellow Ticonderoga pencil and jot down some discoveries and illuminations.

This is by no means a comprehensive list as yet, but it is my intention to update it as I continue on with the layout.

Alaska Snow Company The ice house in Dandelion Wine is also mentioned in Something Wicked.

Mrs Bentley's House - a woman who is convinced by the children that she was never young.

Bradbury's own Home - Which is the home of Douglas Spaulding's family, the small house next door to Grandfather's.

Carnegie Library - where Charles Halloway worked late into the October evening, and was so pivotal in Something Wicked this Way Comes. Outside there is a carved stone lion.

Coogar & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show - something decidedly wicked that this way comes.

The Court House/Town Hall - with its clock that can be seen across town. I have no current intention to showing this in any other form than as a backdrop image or possibly in low relief. It is too large and complex for the layout.

Edison Court Station - The Northshore Line, though not specifically mentioned in the books, is certainly a necessary location for my railway with my plan bracketing Green Town between this and the Chicago Northwestern. 

The Elite Theatre - Where Lavinia Nebbs and Francine go to watch the latest Charlie Chaplain on the night that Lavinia will come face to face with the Lonely One.

Miss Fern & Miss Roberta's House. - the home to the Green Machine, that electric marvel. "it glided. It whispered, an ocean breeze", albeit one that almost kills poor Mr Quartermain.

Colonel Freeleigh's place - home of the time machine, the Colonel himself, mention a date and let him take you back on the wave of recollection.

The German Baptist church - at the corner of Chapel Street and Glen Rock.

Grandfather's House - In Dandelion Wine and in Bradbury's own childhood this house next door is a bastion of both wisdom and intrigue. Douglas will wake here in a third floor cupola bedroom at the beginning of Summer. There is a "pride of lions in the yard"; dandelions that will picked for the press. Rooms were rented here and in one story it becomes Douglas' responsibility to deal with a vampire who is staying upstairs.

The Halloway House - Situated up a small rise, I have no feeling for where this might be in Bradbury's Green Town but there is a boardwalk in behind it and a sloping lawn in front where the seller of lightning rods will come upon Will and Jim with a storm riding on his tail. In Waukegan Oak Street runs off Belvidere.

Lavinia Nebbs' House - Where Lavinia one night up and stabbed the Lonely One with a handy pair of sewing scissors.

Leo Auffmann's House - the Green Town jeweler will invent a Happiness Machine here, an eight foot tall orange box that will reveal all the things you can't have or keep and will catch fire on the lawn.

The Nightshade House - 97 Oak Street. Next door to the Halloway's and the house Tom Fury prophesises will be struck by lightning.

Ned's Night Spot - The saloon with the double swing doors where Charles Halloway drinks after work.

Northwestern Station From where the train will carry Douglas' friend John Huff away to Milwaukee. Trains and trams are essential in Ray Bradbury's fiction and journeys by train and tram were a recurring theme. It was how people made the big cross country journeys.

The Ravine - this dividing line between the suburbs and the town is the dark rift running through Dandelion Wine.

Sanderson's Shoe Emporium - Where Douglas Spaulding runs errands to help acquire the Royal Crown Cream-Sponge Para Litefoot tennis shoes. "Like Menthol on your feet"

Mrs Singers Store - one block away to a pint of ice cream.

The Fire House - Not mentioned in Green Town but so Bradbury that it has to have its place here.

The United Cigar Store - with it's wooden Indian, one of several that populate Green Town.

The Unrented Building - empty but for a large block of ice on two saw horses encasing the most beautiful woman in the world - perhaps.