WOOHOO! Good weather = time to build

[Gary S]

The sky looks great, Gary, but how'd ya end up with that corner that's getting the touch-up? Just my opinion, but I have a feeling that you're going to regret both the windows and the openings in the centre wall.

Wayne, that corner was up for considerable debate about coving. It is the "end of the line" for the point-to-point aspect of the layout, even though there will be a track there that curves onto a removable bridge across the door for continuous run. It just felt right to not cove that corner as it is behind the door to a certain extent and I wanted the layout to "feel" like it ended there at that corner. Another reason I didn't cove it is so that the "staging" interchange tracks can go all the way to the corner. At the time, I was thinking that the cove would shorten those tracks, meaning less cars, but really, they would only have been a few inches shorter. To sum it up, not coving that corner was based on emotion, not logic. But hey, originally I wasn't going to have any coved corners... your advice led to five out of six being coved. And five out of six ain't bad!

As for the windows and the center wall, again, all emotion. It just "felt right" to do it. Trust me, there have been plenty of times that I look at the windows and think "hmmm, the backdrop right there is rather short. But on the other hand, I'm still okay with what I did, and think I will be happy with it. Logically, there was no reason for the windows or the lower center wall... just a long series of compromises I'll have to live with.