A Taste

Another beaut day here at Whistlestop!  The end board of my portable layout is now painted green, thus evoking an amazingly realistic effect of a grassy landscape.  Or not!!  But I think it looks good, and tomorrow will see a start on an identical table for the other end.  Building this small layout is giving me a taste of what it's going to be like once the Trainbarn building is completed and I can start building the large permanent layouts in it, that I've been planning for years.  It's going to be fantastic!!

I used the board as a base to take a photo of a couple of small items that have arrived here recently.  They're nothing to do with the layout as such, though.  Both are items associated with past Train Collectors Association (USA) conventions.  I'm a member of TCA, but haven't been able to attend one of their conventions yet, but hopefully that day will come.

The small luggage cart I found on ebay, and it's from their 2006 convention in San Antonio, Texas.  I have some porters and station-staff to put on my Standard Gauge station, and now they've got something to load!  This item was made by Pride Lines, sadly no longer in business.  The lamps are reproductions of old Lionel items made by the current Lionel Corporation, but the street names are appropriate to the 2012 convention, held in Atlanta.  Long term readers of this blog will realise that I have a particular passion for accessories!