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.
