Silver Sidelines

Not so much ballasting more a bit of history: My old Superquick engine shed in its latest position - a rare picture with no engines. The shed dates back to the early 1980s and my Bracken Ridge Layout.   It was part of a pair of sheds which were customised to fit my track spacing.   The sheds were made narrower.   This was achieved by separating the gable ends from the walls.   If you look carefully you can see where the brick arch from across the entrance was separated from the rest of the gable wall to enable the new narrower gable to be lowered back onto the side walls. Another scanned image from the past with Airfix Castles, a Lima Crab and some Mainline ex GWR and LMR types.   There is also a Hornby Dublo 8F which lives on with handrails and tender 'borrowed' from an old Mainline 'Scot'. The Bracken Ridge layout was never completed (as with so many layouts) and everything was packed away and moved   to Park...

The ballast has reached the loco yard:   Where there are to be buildings I have glued a piece of cardboard down to the board prior to ballasting.   The cardboard is cut ever so slightly smaller than the building footprint so that it doesn't show beneath the finished building.   I also took the opportunity to make a 'concrete' floor for the engine sheds. Here is the footprint for the old Superquick shed: And here the footprint for the Skaledale Shed: And then the finished product: