Old Cassino Dairy is Being Installed

On Monday I continued work on my Old Cassino Dairy building.  I added a couple of bits of styrene, so I could use a bulldog clip to join the two back buildings together.

On Tuesday we went to Kevin’s place and we had a reasonable small turn out.  Kevin continues to progress his track laying.  When Darren arrived he handed me the ALTP 2022 freight car.  The car followed me home.  See a future Blog about what happened when it got to my place.  During the week I was also doing some running of a particular train around the layout.  It started at Grafton Yard and has only moved through to Cassino Yard at this point in time.  I was also doing some enhancements to the timetable with two more Shunt Lists created and some text on some timetable cards enhanced.

Cassino Yard is chockers.

On Friday morning I added some styrene to the roof of the lean-to, so that it just plugs or clicks into place on the assembly.

The real dairy building has some large pipes above the sliding doors in the brick part of the building.  I have a piping set sitting around.  So I cut up a couple of lengths of piping from that kit and made some curved ends so that the pipes look like they do to somewhere from somewhere else.  Today while I was watching the Lions on TV, I decided to fit the roof section to the building \fascia.  I used some 0.025” phosphor bronze wire to join the over shed roof to the building rooves.  I drilled a hole up the 5 rear stirrups that support the shed roof, and threaded the 0.025” wire into these.  I then drilled similar accommodating holes in the corrugated the two building rooves so that the 0.025” wire just slips down into the roof holes.  This locks the three components together. 

There is nothing better that taking that model down to the layout and placing it on the layout.  The layout fascia was about 1cm too low to meet up with the rooves.  So I removed that 600mm length of fascia and installed it about 15mm higher.  Just like a bought one!  A quick coat of paint on both sides of the fascia to hide the old screw holes and I also did a bit more work on a small section of backboard in Old Cassino. 

The Old Cassino Dairy viewed from the other side of the tracks

A close up view of the Dairy buildings from the Goods Siding

having walked down to the far end of the Dairy Siding.  This photo is taken back towards the station.  The building needs to be settled in against the backdrop/layout fascia and the 5 posts need to put into concrete surround, so the posts are upright.  Then ballasting and ground work will occur this week.

While in the painting mindset, I gave the platform at Lismore another coat of stain.  I also gave the platform at Old Cassino a coat of stain.  My next job here is to work out what type of platform facing I need to make for Old Cassino.  I just realised that the local NMRA guys are also coming to my place in June this year.  I also have my layout opened for viewing at the 2025 Australasian NMRA Convention on a couple of days.  So I need to do a few more projects.

A view of the stained Lismore Platform, with a few locos sitting in the yard.

A second view of the stained Lismore Platform.

The platform at Old Cassino has just been stained and the background backdrop was painted black (behind the goods shed).