Rainbows in the Lehigh Valley Gorge

[TMo]

Ground cover going in - I have some extra ballast which I'm using as stray gravel around the Car Barn.  I've had this sitting on the layout for at least 3 years but haven't found an ideal area to place it.  I figure in my case, it's a former engine house for a local locomotive to move cars around the breaker.  Now that business has slowed for anthracite, Conrail has to pick up and move cars occasionally, but not daily.  I figure the track and turnout were pulled up, but the building's still there.  It's another tall structure that helps disguise the entry into my storage level which now resides deep under the coal breaker.  Sometimes I have to remember that the origin for the construction of the breaker and the placement of the structures around the breaker was to hide that entry.  I'm pleased to report that it now takes a very dedicated eye to see into the storage level, so that goal has certainly be met.

       

Once the gravel firms up, I'll be able to add the peripheral scenery from back near the breaker to the front of the engine house, but that's for another day.