Time goes fast when your having fun!

I recently read a post in the prototype modelers group by Bernard Kempinski, who is celebrating 10 years of building his fabulous Civil War layout USMRR Aquia Line. I realized that I started the Placerville Branch a year later in 2010 and my 9th anniversary approaches. I've slowed my building pace, due to having too many projects going at once. I've found it difficult to operate the layout  once a month and build at the same time. In this case I operate, solve post operations issues, then swing back to whatever structure project I'm working on. You wouldn't think that would be much, but for me it is. Once building, I'll ignore whats needed for setting up the next operation session and as my goal date gets closer I'll postpone it simply because I'm not ready. I'm thinking the solution is that operations should be my priority and everything else should follow. I fight it because what I really enjoy doing is building, setting scenes and using the skills I've learned along the way. However sharing the layout should be the bottom line - otherwise why build it?

From this 2010

to this 2019

My latest build is taking awhile, but it is coming along. My vision is, "I would pack as many buildings and scenes as possible into the Upper Placerville." Call it structure scenery if you will. In any event I'm using South River Modelworks' Robinson Electric as one of those buildings. Its a multilevel structure with 4 separate buildings in the mix. I've completed the larger building and its here

and here

More next time - right after this Fridays Op session. I'm printing out clearance and train order cards right now.