Here is the little house with it’s new roof and other repairs made, it will sit next to the refurbished church in Fields Landing.
Speaking of Churches, I have never had one on my railroad before then suddenly 2 show up from different sources.
The first is this beauty, solid cement board and needing some minor repair. I stripped off the old rotted Cedar shingles and replaced them with 15# building felt cut to shingles. I had to cut a large enough hole in the bottom to access the windows for re-gluing, thankfully they were all still there. Imagine the fun when I discovered that the bottom was 2 layers of 1/2 inch cement board but we gotter dun and fixed the windows and installed lighting.
It is now ready to plant in the new town of Fields Landing come Spring. I didn’t want to repaint the structure so left the chipped paint as is.
The second church building was a little more of a problem and a real basket case. First I really don’t need 2 church buildings in this small town so what do I do with it, I hate to throw anything away 
Here is the building after having all the old Silicon scraped out of the joints and being re-assembled, not looking to bad. It seems to be an old Pola building but the doors and windows scale very well in 1:20. I broke out all the small window mullions as half of them were missing anyway but the overall finish on the outside is in pretty good shape.
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Like I said, don’t need two churches but the building really doesn’t convert to some other structure easily. So why not use it like it is and change it to an eating establishment, the Chapel Cafe ? I built a new base and added a lean-to structure for the kitchen area around the back side.
I think it will make a great addition to the town and the Historical Society should approve.
Neat repurpose! Personally, I would have gone for a different denomination, setting up the possibility for dueling signboards during the All Church League Softball season!
- Eric
That is the best 9 years I’ve spent reading this morning.
Rick what plywood do you use on the roof and what do you use to treat it ? If it is in the post already I can search for it. Just tell me it’s in there an I will backtrack
Thanks Bill, glad you enjoyed it. You may want to take a look here as well.
Pete, I just use 1/4 inch underlayment for the walls and roof of a structure like this. They are treated on the cut edges with Tight Bond 3 and sealed inside with clear Polyurethane as a moisture barrier before paint. The 1/2 inch ply base is given 2 coats of sealer after treating the edges with TB3.
Remember buildings like this do not stay out over the Winter, they are just built to withstand an occasional Spring shower 
Just about have this finished up. a little work on the roof of the addition and some signs and details and its good enough.
Should have the bench clear in time for this years MIK
Finished and ready to go out in the Spring to add to the new town of Fields Landing.
And the backside
Well back to Fields Landing.
The last post was back in December, and November for anything on the overall area. So now that most all the Spring maintenance is caught up on the rest of the railroad I can get back to building.
The stone wall that separates Fields landing from the mainline running track is now in place and we like the way it turned out. I built and painted these panels back in January and they have been sitting on the bench waiting for warm dry weather to be installed.
Made from individual pieces of building foam each section is about 18 inches long. Because the main line is on a grade and the Fields table is flat I used a step in the stones to maintain an even height on the main line side.
Because the walls on this end are so high I had to use exposed anchors to make things work. Tried to make them look like masonry anchors, hey, if you can’t hide em make them stand out
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Did you paint all sides to keep the foam from degrading!?
Yep, Latex base coat, couple of gray sprays, Granit stone spray and a matte clear coat…
Really like the look of that wall. The anchor do add to the appeal. 
We got the half pit turntable finished up and operational today. I built the bridge deck last winter as well as the pit so just had to install the safety ring and fine tune the workings.
This is probably the only garden RR that you can stand in one spot and see 3 working
turntables
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Not that we are in any way trying to compete…but, the IPP&W has 4 operating turntables, all within an area where you can see all of them from one point…
Your “Tables” look more prototypical , Rick…nice work…
Fred
Well ya got me beat Fred, my fourth turn table is not visible from the same point as are the three I mentioned
It’s starting to come together now. Getting the building bases located and secured and hooking up the wiring for the building lighting.
There is room for several more commercial buildings as well as fuel and water tanks but they all have to be designed and built yet. Starting the gravel infill tomorrow that should really improve the overall looks.
A couple of pictures of the current buildings, maybe you have seen these buildings as they came to life at different times over the past year or so.
The church and parsonage and the back of the Fields hotel and Chapel Cafe.
The maintenance shed, freight transfer shed/dock, Depot and the back of the meat market
Got the gravel in this morning except in the area where 2 more larger buildings will be going.
Looks way better than black plastic.
With the buildings back.
Remember this years MIK. Looks far better with the base all filled in and track ballasted.
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That last pic has Andy Griffith show written all over it!
You got Goobers Garage and Cousin Gomers barracks in the background but you need Andy and Barn cause you got a dawg gone sniper climin that there ladder.
Now dang gummit Dawg gone Hal Smith passed away.
However if your looking for a fill in you could always consider a guy a know named Fred that is still alive, upright and taking in nuruishmant .
After reading this thread from the beginning (again) I want to see a photo next fall/winter of your layout with nothing on it AND a picture of your interior building storage!
Rick, your build thread is motivating me to not give up on my layout after feeling disappointed after a major mistake (and one that you warned me about).