Two flat cars...

... and a tanker. That two-storey block building at the end of the photo with the big air-conditioner on top is Mr. Scott's turned sideways. Unfortunately, the rooftop shuttlecraft landing pad hangs off the edge of the layout. The building was used as a stand-in to fill up the streetscape - I wanted to add a highrise, but didn't have the cycles to get it built last year.

Haggling over the rail beetle

No, it doesn't run. It's a static item. This rail beetle consists of the remnants of whatever I could dig out of the vacuum cleaner after the little car got accidentally sucked in during some layout cleaning.

Last stop for barbecue

The fires are out. The tables cleared. The dishes washed. The floors swept. All that’s left is the aroma and the promise of another day.

It's time...

... to move the layout from its place of honour in the workshop where it resided over the Christmas holidays back to its usual place. Hopefully this'll be the first of a few pictures I took while it was all primped for showing off :-)

Bachmann Spectrum Peter Witt streetcar in TTC colours

Last year around this time I wrote a review of my HO streetcar fleet. One of the members was a Bachmann Spectrum Peter Witt streetcar in Chicago Surface Line colours. Last November I finally picked one up in Toronto Transit Commission colours to go with my small collection of Bowser and Con-Cor PCC TTC streetcars. Unsurprisingly, the colour of the body doesn’t change the operational behaviour of the model :-) The TTC and CSL versions perform the same. Serviceable, but not near as well as either the Bowsers or Con-Cor. Although, I’m happy to have a TTC version of the Peter Witt.