The Atlantic and Southern Build, Part 1

[postalkarl]

Hi tom:

All looks just great. Always enjoy seeing your RR layout photos.

Karl

[GPdemayo]

Looking "Fine as Frogs Hair" Tom.  Hope there weren't too many pay offs made.

Jim

Jim,

I appreciate you stopping by. Yes, many many pay offs were in fact made. You know how corrupt politics can be.

Tom

Say is ain't so Tom.    Oh, and don't forget the planning and building departments. 

[ACL1504]

Hi tom:

All looks just great. Always enjoy seeing your RR layout photos.

Karl

Karl,

I always appreciate your kind remarks and stopping by to see the latest.

Tom

[ACL1504]

Looking "Fine as Frogs Hair" Tom.  Hope there weren't too many pay offs made.

Jim

Jim,

I appreciate you stopping by. Yes, many many pay offs were in fact made. You know how corrupt politics can be.

Tom

Say is ain't so Tom.    Oh, and don't forget the planning and building departments. 

Greg,

Afraid so my friend. As you well know, there ain't no free lunches even when they say "Free Lunch"!

Tom

[ACL1504]

I've been very busy the past few days working on areas of the layout. I made 254 pine trees and planted 197 of them.

While the trees were drying and growing roots, I worked on Three Fingered Freddy's Fireworks.

I cleaned up the transition area from the road to the dirt lot.





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[ACL1504]

Here is where I started planting pine trees on this side of the tracks.





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[ACL1504]

A few trees were planted between the corner gas station and the fireworks joint.



I then moved on down the track to the white sandy road.



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[PRR Modeler]

Beautiful job Tom. The signage on the fireworks stand is impeccable.

[ACL1504]

Not much to say here.

[ACL1504]

Beautiful job Tom. The signage on the fireworks stand is impeccable.

Curt,

Thank you kind sir. The Fireworks structure and signage was done by Reading Bob (Bob Butts). He does superior structure builds.

Tom

[ACL1504]

More pine tree photos.





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[ACL1504]

[ACL1504]

While the roots were taking hold on the pine trees, I moved my attention to the Tahope River area.

I wanted the foliage to come down fairly close to the water as it does in many of the rivers here in the South.

I used a few pine trees, other type foliage super trees I made. The lower bushes are larger pieces of some broken trees.



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[ACL1504]

I'll do both sides of river bank but the other side will wait until I get to the, well, the other side of the river.


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[ACL1504]

I got the pine trees planted next to Freedy's to the sandy road. Now it's time to fill in the gap between the station and the river.

I won't go into detail on the scenery base as I said it often enough. Here are the pictures that tell the story.





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