Sunday, June 22, 2025

Elmer Lane 28 - Coal Bin

DB says:

Elmer Lane always seemed to have an old yellow La with coal on the stub tracks outside the Supervisor's office.

So mine does now too. This was one of a dozen La castings I got from someone (Rod Murgatroyd? Cross Creek?) that were the start of an undisclosed (and inelegant) Stone Train that I started putting together when I built the DI all those years ago. 

One of the wagons was de-limestoned (and what a surprise to find I'd buried a lead slug under there), its door was cut open, filled with coal and repainted. I suppose I expended about ten minutes on this. It's now permanently attached to Elmer Lane. 

Obviously needs more rust and fading, but that might look unprototypical...


1 comment:

Darryl Palmer said...

Rod Murgatroyd, thats a name from the past, what became of Rod ?