Week 2 construction progress report

I started this week off by ordering some building kits and DPM modular brick building pieces.  I am using Walthers' Union Crane & Shovel as my Hughes Aircraft Company manufacturing facility.  I got it built and painted this week.  This building will fit a single car on the track that goes into the building.  The area in front of the door will fit a second car for outdoor unloading.

Next up was building the brick Del Monte cannery out of DPM modular sections.  This building can fit up to three boxcars for loading and unloading at the doors.  The single story section at the left houses the coal boiler, and will have a tall chimney.  The inbound coal will be unloaded unto the ground, and then brought in to the boiler via the tall ground-level door at the far left of the building.

Del Monte needs to be completed and painted, and the windows and doors painted and glued in. With a modular structure of this size I will need to come up with some way to structurally reinforce it. Hopefully the addition of a roof with also make it more rigid.

I still need to find a suitably narrow depot to fit in the available space.  I may end up trying one of the prototypically correct Santa Fe laser-cut depot kits that are available.

After that the Sunkist fruit packing house will need to be constructed.  I will need to order more DPM parts to be able to start this building.

More week 2 updates to come as I hopefully make more progress this week.