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A look this time at a whalebelly/dual diameter tank car (remember those) that I had for many years.  These tank cars are listed as being 67 feet 5 inches long, so kind of big.  A nifty looking car, I used to see these in the yard here at Sarnia fairly often, sometimes they'd be in short strings.  The prototype cars have all been taken out of service due to safe...

Spent very little time at the layout this week, but I did take about 20 minutes or so to do some switching at the Midwest Plastics plant.  Here's a few looks at what went on there...

About all I actually got done on the layout this week was getting just a little bit of scenery materials put down, basically in around the gate area at the end of the scrap yard.  A bit of gravel, some sifted sand and a couple of colours of ground foam all glued in place.

Progress on the extension of the scrap yard.  It's not totally done yet, but getting there.  Here's a few looks at the progress in the area so far: