I declared the construction complete last month, when the floor was finished. There are still loose ends like doorknobs not installed, but I’m moving in. I have 13-1/2 feet of new shelves for the kits, and I’m working on sorting un-climatized stuff from things I want to keep climatized.

I’ve moved several boxes of completed cars back onto the railroad, but taking this opportunity to overhaul things like couplers that stick (replaced with 158s) or painting wheels on cars that just arrived, and a limited number of locomotives. I had to lift the whole railroad, almost, and that is worthy of a separate discussion.

Ron Merrick