Progress Report 01.12.11

Last night I completed the installation of the rope lights.  While not as effective as I would have thought over Davenport Yard, the addition of the rope lights made a big difference on the peninsula and over Bureau, IL.  I ran two strings of lights for the entire distance on the first level.  This left me with one extra set in case of failure.

For the past couple of nights, I have been working on modifying and creating waybills.  With the addition of a new local and new industry added, I had a lot of waybill work ahead of me.  I'm nearly finished and hope to finish tomorrow while waiting on my mom at the hospital.

Tonight, I did the unthinkable.  I threw away the instructions on a kit.  I modified the kit to fit a corner space on the layout.  Instead of the small footprint, I doubled the size of the facility.  This goes against every fiber of my being when constructing a kit.  I never....let me reiterate, never! alter from the plan.  I never scratchbuild anything, but am always amazed by other's ability to create something completely different with the same materials.  This was just a baby step tonight, but one that I'm very proud of.  I have talked about scratchbuilding structures before, but tonight I made the plunge.  I'm looking forward to constructing the very large neighboring Archer Daniels Midland Elevator soon.

Here are pictures of the new ADM Milling Co in Stockdale, IL.