A Closer Look: Part 2

Hello all!   Continuing the overview of my layout, I'm photographing the middle part of the "U" and will finish up with the left side in Part 3 in the near future.

                 Immediately above the entrance to Williams Yard is this minor league ballpark, the home of the Kings Port Saints.   The signs on the home run fence and the Grain Belt sign are reminiscent of  Twin Cities sites, an example of the way I integrate images from my boyhood home of Upstate NY and my current residence in Minnesota.  Blue Ribbon Flour and Battaglia Bros. Warehouse are in the background.

                                   GERN industries is a concept I came across on the Big Blue Train forum.    A fun and popular idea, the fictional industry manufactures a flux that, when applied to various products, makes them 3% better.   The large division of GERN on my layout makes Cement Flux which helps it set faster and harder. 

               GERN's truck loading facility is shown in the foreground.   Trains serve the industry behind this area and under the building.

                                   Sal Monella's Scrap Metal Salvage

                     A pile of shredded steel from Sal's car shredder, the ultimate fate of many an old car from the region.  Canton Box in the background is close to the tracks but unfortunately is not a rail customer!

                      WM tower at the north end of the town of West Mill.   The billboard on the right boasts the local community's baseball loyalties (and beer preference!).    Apparently they like iced coffee too.

                 The abandoned station and water tower at West Mill.  That's the Catskills in the background.  More to come soon!