Upcoming Presentation and Layout Photos, March 2019

I'm looking forward to giving a PowerPoint presentation at the Associated Railroaders of Kingston  (ARK) March meeting on Tuesday, March 5 at 6ish p.m. at the Division Street Denny's. Week to remember - Kingston's Rail-o-Rama train show is the following weekend, Saturday, March 8-Sunday, March 9 at the Ambassador on Princess Street. I'll be helping with the ARK table from 10-12 Saturday. The ARK module group continues to meet and we are firming up plans for the 5 W's of the modular layout we'll be contributing to, preserving key elements of the Hanley Spur in HO scale. In the meantime, I've been doing some Hanley Spur home layout operation and photography. I find it's wise to end every construction session with tidying up AND operation. It's been a productive way of keeping the layout clean and ready for the next time, and gives a good feeling of accomplishment.

Now that the layout is more complete, it's enjoyable to do some layout photography. These photos are taken with my Nikon S9700 Coolpix on macro mode at layout level with no extra lighting and some photo editing with Microsoft Photos software. CN's switcher just completed a trip to the CP interchange, and is in the yard as a caboose hop with crew.

On the waterfront - the spur serving Canadian Dredge & Dock, Shell Oil and I. Cohen Steel is in the middle of this photo:

One of the last steps in this layout iteration is scenery. I've got trackage, structures (or structure stand-ins) and operations in place. Trees from the previous Vermont layout iteration (putting the 'green' in Green Mountain State!) are stashed various places and are slowly making their way back onto the layout. This shady glen near Rideau Street is temporary home to a few fellows sharing stories - and a bottle!

At the Wellington Street freight house, a couple of workers look over the boxcars spotted there:

It seems important to include the human side of the Hanley Spur. This helps understand why the tracks are there, the industries they serve, and the folks that inhabit this HO scale world!