The time has come when all the buildings are completed and are here on the module to complete the logging base camp. The pressure to get much done in this area was not been very high, as long as there were still items missing. That excuse has just ran out and the time has arrived to start doing something, rather that just talking about it. The eight Evergreen camp house kits came out nothing like the photo glued to the box top when Tom O'Connor of Lebanon, PA got done with them. I am afraid to look inside through the windows, since the insides are completed as well and each has 12 volt lighting. The concept of placing this camp off on its own add on removable piece of bench work, appears to give the camp a special place in the over all layout. The idea has been to make as many different focal points as possible, by using unexpected methods.
So now it is time to build the support legs for the piece and attach it the the main module in a way that it is easy to remove for transport to a train show. From there, the next step will be the track road bed and trying to make this area appear to have been just clear cut out of the woods and the only stumps that were removed, were to be able to bring in the track. It will take a lot of work before this area really starts to take on the final messy area that it has to be.
Above are three photos. One is what the kit maker thought the camp houses should look like, another is how Tom thought they should look like and the third photo is a real camp showing something of what we will be trying to do with them.
