Putting this in scenery and structures since it is more of a scenery discussion at this point.  Feel free to move.

One of the principal towns on my narrow gauge pike has a lake as a prominent feature.  I decided to swing one section of track out over a corner of the lake on a trestle.  However due to space for the yard, I had to put one turnout on the end of the trestle. 

Ok, so I covered all of the plaster cloth with a thin soupy layer of plaster, and to get it to come out fairly smooth, I sprayed water on it.  When all was said and done it looked pretty good.  The plaster cloth was hidden and there was a smooth layer of plaster over it all - covered well.

I am finally finishing a kit of the tower at Quinnimont West Virginia in HO scale.  This is not a good kit for various reasons and I have had to do an unreasonable amount of modifications and shimming and such to get this far.

But I just noticed the kit does not have the decorative shingles that are on the tower below the windows and in the gables on the roof.  They are mentioned in the instructions but are not in the box.  Note I am a bit meticulous in organizing and keeping track of my parts for laser cut kits so trust me they were not in the box.

Hi.

As some of you know, I am building a layout with a New England flavor.

The big industry that will generate most of the traffic will be a paper mill.

I have a small two track staging yard thy will be behind the mill.

I was searching ways to hide the staging, when I found the beautiful "Washington Northern" layout from Kevin Klettke. He hide his staging with the paper mill he has on the layout, with a track arrangement that is similar to what I have.