So I'd been on and off working on lighting on my layout, using mainly LEDs. But I wanted an effect of an era that was just moving from gas or oil lighting into electric. Around last Christmas the wife had some of those little battery operated tea lights set up as decoration. I was watching one flicker and thought this could be a possible solution.

I was looking at the date of my last post and it's been well over a year ago, Wow.

So anyway on to my subject. Last year around the October time frame we had some bad weather come through with high winds. The storm snapped an old growth pine tree at a point about 7 feet above the ground and planted it right across our house. Praise God nobody was hurt or killed.

Here's the gift every train fan needs.

The Golden Spike oval roaster by CampChef. LOL

Added a USB charging port.

Well I picked up a DigiTrax wi-fi interface and it's working pretty good. 

I upgraded the wife's phone and I'm using her old one as my controller. So I wanted a place to park the phone when not in use and went on a search. Went to the dollar store first and nothing peaked my interest there. Next was Wally World and wandered through kitchen, bath, and sporting goods, I ended up in automotive and came across a nifty little pouch that's supposed to hang from the vent in your car. It's made by Auto Drive. Pics below.

Looking for a kit of a HO scale steam crane. Would prefer a crawler but car mounted would work also. 

Finished painting main part of fascia today, satin black. The center shelf for my controller I'll paint a lighter color. Haven't decided what yet. 

Cleaned up track and did a little run around. 

https://youtu.be/dxVhueYRAu0

Here's a few more pics a bit closer to some of the structures. Enjoy and thanks again for the feed back.

Banana Plantation, with workers bunk houses and managers residence and office. Switcher tank engine is just under the covering.

It's been a while since I've posted an update and just realized it's been over a year now since starting this project.

I want to thank everyone for the tips and suggestions so far, keep them coming.

So for today I'll post some overview pics and hopefully tomorrow a few closer up to the structures.