Under the category of things you probably didn’t expect to hear today, is “after I finished ironing my water,” I decided to put it in place since it will be a couple of days at least before I install the canal banks. Paper, poster board, a lot of materials warp when you use water based paint. A spray of water on the back side and an iron on its lowest setting flattens things back out again.
I also want some kind of boat down there. I’m leaning towards a tug or small yacht. Scroll till you see a tug named “Hermes”: https://www.shipmodell.com/index_files/0PLAN7A3.html#8S
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I settled on something you probably wouldn’t expect to see in a canal. Panama maybe but not the Ohio and Erie! [(-D]
When all else fails, go with what you like. [;)]
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Trying to get up off my bew tox and get back to work on my depot.
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So THAT’S what’s been going on here since I got “bounced.” The station, canal, and layout look great! I can imagine what it’s going to look like when the “Maine” shows up!
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I think you could say I’m at “fourth and inches”. Only a few more difficult parts to make and it will finally be done!
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Very nicely done. Scratch building is a real art form. Not all can do it well.
Rich
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It’s beautiful! Well done!
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Located a few more photos in the Nickel Plate Road Historical Society archives and elsewhere.
This is Knox Indiana but it’s the best photo I’ve ever seen of the little gingerbread piece on the peak of the roof I have to make 2 of to finish the model. Compared to that, the braces under the eaves will be a cakewalk! 
Is next!
Then:
(The water plug)
And the Sundown Limited! 
Maybe this???
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I like your ambition. Keep us posted on your progress.
Northwoods Flyer
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Even simplified these bits are not so easy. I’m using white “boards”. The kind that you use to “bag and board” comic books 
. I’m also planning to use bamboo barbecue skewers for the pointed posts in the center and hopefully 
I’ll have some beads that will add an extra bit of detail to these.
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Outstanding pennytrains , love it and yes please keep us posted.
Chuck
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Beautiful old photos Becky, especially the lighthouse. It has the look of a Great Lakes light, any idea where it is? Love the mill shot too!
Thanks for sharing them!
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The lighthouse is at the tip of the West breakwater at the mouth of the Cuyahoga. It was recently for sale and the new owner plans to restore it but I don’t remember what they said about what it will be used for. It can get a little crazy on lake Erie.
I think the mill is between Cleveland and Bath on the Ohio and Erie canal. I find tons of photos at the Cleveland Memory Project online archives.
Maybe I can add Chef Hector Boiardi’s restaurant as a new flat
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Ah, I thought it had a Great Lakes look to it, although with all the ice on it in that photo it looks more like a wedding cake on steroids!
Love the shot of the mill! And from the looks of it the mill got its water from a VERY leaky aqueduct!
Now THIS is in the “What a small world!” Department! Hector Boiardi’s from the same town in Italy my grandfather was from, Piacenza. I think they were both of the same age more or less but whether they knew each other I have no idea.
Thanks for the photos!
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Chef Hector started working at the Hotel Winton (as in Winton Motor Car Company) which catered to the Millionaire’s Row Euclid Avenue crowd. It was the Champs-Elysées of America before there was either a Park Avenue or Beverly Hills. Among local folks like the Halle Family, the Mathers and legendary Cleaveland mayor Tom L. Johnson there were also the mansions of John Hay; Abraham Lincoln’s private secretary, Samuel Andrews; co-founder of Standard Oil, and John D. Rockefeller; richest man in the world.
Chef Boiardi really got his start when these uber-rich customers began requesting take out meals their servants could prepare back in their cozy mansions. Chef Boiardi started packaging pasta, cheese and a jar of sauce, probably the first example of take home meals that were uncooked.
Amazing to think about how rich folks today turn up their noses at canned or boxed meals like Beefaroni or a pizza mix that the richest families in the world clamored so hard to get their hands on that they founded a whole industry so 21st century snobs can turn their noses up at their legacy.
Hector is buried in Parma Ohio surrounded by not so wealthy families who continue to love his sauce.
Well, here it is all lit up, painted, and complete with signage!
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