The View From Our Window
We've all seen a ship in a bottle and the question that comes to mind is how did it get in there. Today we faced a similar dilemma in a larger scale. Our challenge was to stuff a large sailing ship into a shipping container. The sign in the front of the ship nicely sums up how smooth it went although our little tractor worked up quite the sweat. Ships are HEAVY!
Three more shipping containers are now full and ready to send down the road.
When we were planning the driveway and parking lot of our property the question was just how big to make the parking area. I thought the size we were planning was far too large. Little did I realize just how much we would need every square inch and perhaps just a little more.
We've been busy, very busy for almost seven months building scores of features, large and small for the project in Trinidad. We've filled and sent off three forty-foot containers. Three more containers are in the yard and are almost full. Around them are many more features, ready to load and even more in various stages of completion. If the features were tightly packed in a row that was eight feet wide they would still stretch about four hundred feet long.
Each time I walk by the marvelous collection of features I imagine them all assembled and arranged on site. It is going to be a wonderful thing.
This is the first time we've built a train largely from sculpted concrete but we decided it was the ideal way to achieve the look we wanted this go around. The train needs to sport a great deal of character to look like the tired and worn mining engine of the story. Jack did a great job on the welding of the armature and the guys are almost done the wiring in preparation for the sculpted concrete. This is going to be a great looking train in a short while. Tomorrow we begin building the mountain on which it will be perched. We'll be building it in sections in our shop and then transport and assemble it on site. Stay tuned...
Custom Design & Construction
