USA Train GP7, first run. To be repainted for Algoma Central and converted to battery/radio control. But we just wanted to see it run, on this snowy February day:

Got the lot paved, and finally get to set out a few of the vehicles and containers I've been accumulating (mostly by being at a show, and forgetting I've already got a box full of the same sort of thing at home):

My local NMRA div held its September meet in Brockville, so of course I had to take the transfer terminal out for one last show & tell before it got bolted permanently to the layout, and then took it down to visit the real building.

Me, in shot from the west end:

Hmmm...some HVAC equipment on the roof would look good....

Well, summer was....summer, and then I shot my modelling in the foot by enrolling for a BA program (because two degrees aren't enough, apparently) and even a half-load of courses eats up the week. But I finally got my transfer terminal hooked up to the mainline last week. Here ACR 160 sets out a pair of container cars on the back track. There's already a boxcar inside on the front track:

In comments on my last post, someone asked about the routing of the optical fiber. I think "routing" is too dignified a word for what I did, but here's a closeup:

It's always a good feeling when the "To Do" list starts to accumulate a lot of checkmarks.

Here's an interior view of the building. I put in just enough internal detail to look interesting through the open doorways. The optic fiber bundle is glued into a white LED located in the office area, and feeds through holes to illuminate the external light fixtures -- looks rather pretty in the dark.

Mounting the long central beam such that it didn't interfere with the roof support structure took a bit of figuring and fitting and fiddling.

Yesterday was our local NMRA meet, so I made a push to get this thing in display table condition. First, the lot was gravelled using sifted limestone screenings, fixed with matte medium. Then the walls were fastened to the foundation with Liquisilk adhesive, and corners glued with solvent cement. Here is the structure, its lack of roof apparently not preventing it from already serving traffic:

Getting back to work on the Main Project. The foundation is glued down and painted, and the tracks laid. Holes in the baseboard are for the occupancy sensors on the internal tracks.

It's starting to look like a yard!

The walls are together, and mostly detailed -- there are still some signs to compose and print, and some delicate pipes that will have to wait almost until final assembly. Also, the east-end dock and canopy has to be built. I set it up with tape to determine the final position on the baseboard: