It is hard to believe

that I have been working on this layout for almost seven years and operating it for almost five.


Those five years of operation are beginning to take a toll on the layout. The first item to wear out and need replacement was the turntable jog switch for White Hall. This is a SPDT
on-off-(on) (momentary) switch which is expensive and hard to find. (Radio Shack does not carry it.) I checked with Berkshire Junction from whom I purchased the turntable drive unit and even though they no longer offer the drive unit they did have some switches. But since these switches are both expensive and hard to find I decided to go a different route. I replaced the SPDT on-off-(on) with a SPDT on-off-on switch and added a normally off push button switch for the jog function. (Both of which Radio Shack carries.) All of that was completed Sunday.


Today I finished painting the Hood signal tower and a picture of it is on http://www.easton-and-potomac.com/. I also finished the weathering and the dull coating of Forley & Company's manufacturing building.


The last task of the day was to complete another fourteen conifer trees. I tried to make the foliage more sparse this time. As you can see in the picture below I also tried several different colors on the trunk. I think the brown is too red, but gray looks pretty good.