Following through on an election promise to clean up his community, Parlour Town Mayor H. “Herb” Hoover ordered the town’s street sweeping department to take “whatever measures necessary” to scour area avenues in an attempt to restore the town’s once plush image. Unfortunately the effort was marred by tragedy when a Just Plain Folk figure who ironically was a street cleaner, was sucked up by the powerful sweeping apparatus.
That Sucks! (Get it… Vacuum cleaner, “Sucks.”… never mind).
Nice collection of buildings, Joe.
-Kevin.
Must be that Buffalo water that makes our great minds think alike, Kevin. We all got infected by it. 
That and the nuns.
Thanks for the compliment. Actually, if I ever finish a project and put up some photos, you can see what some of these buildings look like. For example, the Lux Hotel, based on plan in an old MR, needs to have two chimneys added and the porch support pillars installed. The two story house hiding behind the vacuum is the cardboard mockup for the actual styrene building, which is awaiting painting and assembly. The old-time gas station in the lower corner, needs to have its roof completed and painted (my wife is always complaining about that one, 'cause she hates the look of the white styrene). That building needs an interior, which is where the project stalled when I started thinking about what to put inside–pot bellied stove, oil cans, maybe some guns for sale, a sleeping dog. The little handcar shed next to the station, which is made of foamcore, was thrown together to hide the remote control transmitter for my Aristo switch machines. The station is pretty much complete, interior with lights, people, and all. What it needs is a long, threaded rod to pass down into the chimney flue to screw into a nut at the base, which will serve to hold the roof on when ya go to lift the building up.
So, will I finish all of these projects? Yeah, one of these days. But right now, if you’ve read my threads in other catagories, I am focused on moving outdoors into the tree planter. I got permission to put in some small trees–for effect–and I already have one boxwood, which will look great next to the station. I have asked for track plan suggestions from the guys and received a few. I’m also scouring various Kalmbach planning books looking for that one configuration that calls to me. And I need to got to Home Despot and the dirt store to check things out.
On the other hand, in about five hours it’ll be time for dinner and after a great chicken picatta repast accompanied by a nice Montepulciano, who cares if anything gets done?
BTW, how 'bout them Bills!
Mighty fine selection of well kept buildings in Ruszville. Very well tilled terrain too. I hope Hoover gets reelected as it looks like he’s doing a fine job.
Well, he did build a fine dam. As for them buildings, the trick has been tip-toeing among them to get at the switch leading to the spur where the other loco parks, or to turn on/off the Aristo Train Engineer power pack and transmitter or to replace the fuse when a derailment causes a short. Happily, soon all that will be a memory after I install the battery in the other loco. Right now (today) I am trying to decide how to detail/bash my spare tender shells. Choosing a name for my railroad and thus ordering some decals, has slowed me down. I think I’m gonna go with the area in Buffalo near where I grew up. No, not the Slag Heap and Chemical Dump, although that is a catchy name–along with Love Canal, an actual place in Niagara Falls, that led to a lot of environmental lawsuits. Anyway, maybe I’ll start a thread about choosing railroad names. Lucky for you, Port Orford is a real place (kinda, right?) and sounds prototypicaly correct.
Naming is simple,
Pick a state, or city
Add a region or feature.
Followed by a compass direction.
finnish with RR on the end.
Example… Georgia, Grand Canyon and Northerly RR