The Second Garage Door gets closed off

During the last week of May 2002, I started a massive project... to close off the other garage door, build bench-work, lay track, and have Lumberton in service, all before the mid-June - two days of operating sessions, and open house, for the NMRA-LSR convention that was in San Antonio... and I'm not even an NMRA or LSR member?

You see two garage doors from the street when you visit (and 3 Explorers / 1 is mine)	Like most train rooms, they collect stuff some how, when you are ready to build	In the house via the hallway, you go in to the Train Room through this door	One last look out thru the garage door before it is permanently closed off
The garage door remained, as did the second door to the left of this scene	The overhead rails gone, door bolted in, I put up a 1x4 stud-wall system	Then covered it with 2 layers of foam board, its better insulated than the side walls	Hard-board covered the foam, giving a solid wall to work with and paint on
The walls were cleaned and primed, before the blue paint was applied	Called "Wild Blue Yonder", this is the base for a sky back-drop scene	I also painted a portion of the ceiling to help 'wrap' the sky up above the wall area	Remember that messy door area? The sky 'ends' where the benchwork will stop

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This page was created on Nov. 23rd, 2002