I've been busy the last month bashing a paper mill from 2 Walthers kits following an article by Bernie Kempenski from back in 2001 about how he did a similar task. We both found the same prototype mill, the Rocktenn mill at West Point, VA. It's huge, a 1/2 mile wide and a mile long. My space is 13 inches wide and 10 feet long, so compression is needed. I hope I can keep all the main RR related features, and convey a sense of industrial menace with lots of tanks and piping (spider web frames & dust collectors).

Summer has come and unfortunately work on my layout has slowed down considerably. I'll be posting here every once and a while though, just to keep you up to date on any construction progress that does get done on my upper deck. 

Paul Krentz

Free-lancing a fictitious portion of the N&W Pocahontas "Pokey" District

There is so much to do on a model railroad! While most of my students are absorbed by the experience of operating, I have more students than available operating positions at any given time, so it's a good idea to keep other activities on tap that make a contribution to the fun and provide an educational benefit.

Building scale structures is one of those things.

 Alas and bother.  While trying to the surviving portions of my old layout out of storage, I found that Module #1 is beyond salvage.  The only survivors are modules 9, 10, 11.

Module 1 was the only 1 left with blue foam, so, now I don't have to try and salvage that  part, and the track had to be ripped up and relaid anyway, due to the bad design of the s curves.

The bad news is that it was the module for the covered bridges, so I will have to rebuild it eventually.