Fantastic progress

I had to go to Brisbane yesterday, but met the builders briefly before departing.  When I arrived home in the dark, I shone the lights of my car on the Trainbarn site and the amazing sight of all the walls being up greeted me!!  Really quick progress with the prefabricated frames.  There were a couple of errors in dimensions, but these were quickly fixed today, so here are a few pictures of the progress.  I must add that our builder has been really excellent and patient with all the small details that I'm so fussy about, and he's making sure that everything is just as I want it.  Thanks Nick!!

One of the roof trusses has been erected and soundly braced-up in readiness for the other trusses to be installed tomorrow.  From then on there will be less obvious progress as a lot of time will be spent bracing everything up and tying it down to the slab.  And then the corrugated iron roof will go on, which will be a real milestone!

Walking around inside- the entry area, my workshop annex and the main display area- it is really amazing and incredibly satisfying seeing 'in the flesh' what I have dreamed about and planned for so long.  All the 'worries'- would it be big enough, would it be too big, would the walls be too high etc. etc.- were quickly dispelled.  It's absolutely fine, totally wonderful.  How much fun is it going to be fitting it out, and finally, after years of dreaming, setting up most of my trains.