This page describes work accomplished on the new TMRC layout during
the month of December 2009, as taken from the descriptions posted to
the club mailing list.
A simple attempt to use the Club's venerable Pink Elephant to clean up some loose scenic material led to a teardown of the said Elephant, and replacement of the on/off switch and the power cord.
The opportunity was taken to add a grounding conenction ("But generations before us have used this thing without getting electrocuted...")
Our member in exile David Lambeth has sent a couple of shipments of useful items. Here's the first of his cast plastic dwarf signals. This was installed in F-yard to replace a signal that was demolished during scenery work.
Genya is admiring a photo-etched sheet of chainlink fencing material from David's latest shipment.
The Great Wall is finished! It runs along the front of F-yard for a distance of 17 feet. It's made partly of Holgate-Reynolds embossed stone sheet, and then when that became unobtainable, construction continued with a cast copy of the material, made in a silicone rubber mold. Making a long wall has been a long job.
In front of the Great Wall is the Great Weed Bed.
Here is Alex's first switchstand, installed in Middle Heights with a temporary flag. It's operated by a mechanism down below.