Thanks Devon
I was pleased with the way it came out. It nicely fills an oddball little corner that I had no idea what to do with before the Challenge idea.
Its a nice use of a small space and looks great. You done good.
What are you running for layout/building lighting power on the layout? Your mostly battery power correct?
I keep thinking about starting to run some 12v landscaping wire around the layout this summer and wonder if that’s a good option.
Craig,
I just use a 12 volt AC transformer. Run some bare copper wires under the tables as bus bars and drop my plug in wires down and solder them. I use 14 volt bulbs and 12 volt LED’s mixed in where most appropriate. With the AC you don’t have to worry about “directional” on the LED’s makes it simple.
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The tank truck redone and ready for the dio when I get it on the layout this Spring. Should look like it fits in now being lettered for Texaco instead of Shell.
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Nice job Rick but should you make it into a railtruck 
What did you use for the road? I really like the look of it.
Rick,
I’m still in the trial run stage with solar, but I read here that you can run lights off DCC track. So I’m still getting my head around it. Did I read this correctly that you are able run your LED lighting without something like a bridge rectifier?
Bill -
Bulbs don’t care, AC or DC will work. LED’s are DC devices, but will function 50% of the time on AC (1/2 of each cycle). Here in the US our power is 60 Cycles per Second, or 60 Hertz. The LED, being a diode, will rectify that AC into DC - the equivalent of a half wave rectifier. The resulting DC is “off” for half of each AC cycle. You might notice the LED is a little less bright than on straight DC, but with AC at 60Hz you probably will not see any flicker.
When I was a youngin’, my family had a membership at an old social club in Buffalo, NY. The large building had a steam plant for heat and power. Being a very old generator it was 50Hz. At that cycle rate you could notice just a bit of flicker in the AC lighting.
Craig,
thanks. It is just bagged mortar mix with a little extra cement mixed in. It’s been weathering out there for 4-5 years now.
Devon,
Thanks. I don’t think so, but then it is already a truck on rails 
Bill,
Yes, What Jon said 
Thanks. Good to file away. I’m hopeful that I can start laying out roadways by fall if I can get the big feed mill done. Everything hinges on that location. I also noticed some nice flora growing along the road are as well in your picture. I’m assuming it’s naturally produced like the random moss I’ve started to see in a few areas on my layout.
Moss? what’s that? Is it something like the tumbleweeds we get here? Or is it more like cactus? Now Sagebrush I can grow…
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Moss is this strange green thing that shows up supposedly only on the north side of trees elsewhere but here in the rainforest of the Pacific Northwest (or should that be the Pacific Northeast for our down under friends) moss just grows all the way around the tree. And roofs, and driveways, and cars and grass and just about every spot you can think of that sees the sun for a total of 1 day a year mid August.