WIRING IS DONE1 Tested. Everything works. Tortise slow-motion switch machines installed on main line turnouts. Place-holder buildings will slowly be replaced with highly detailed scenery. Just got my photo interiors for my buildings.

I model the fictional Springwater sub of the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway on Vancouver Island circa 1950. If you have ever been to Vancouver Island you will know that my layout could never be complete without a sawmill so for years now |I have been on the lookout for HO sawmill machinery that would enable me to freelance a mill similar to the steam powered McLean Mill near Port Alberni. This is a preserved mill which operates every summer with a fascinated crowd of onlookers that often include my wife and I.

Having read your recent articles on scenery,  I would suggest use use ordinary screen wire to form hills and valleys. I use coat-hanger wire to create the top contour; fasten the screen wire to it with U-shaped bits of wire, and then lay 4" squares of 2-ply paper towels on the screen after dipping in soupy Hydrocal B-11. (This dries to a harder surface than plaster, but takes acrylic colors just as well).  Rock molds filled with thicker Hydrocal are applied to the towels-on-screen-wire, after spraying dried towels to assure adhesion.