One of the layout rooms has finally expanded to Newton Kansas. Newton was home of the Fred Harvey distribution center for its lunch room and hotel chain. It was an ideal location because the Santa Fe Railway split here for the Southern and Northern routes. I wanted to plan a view that one would see from the highway passing through town. This is the way I saw the action on my recent trips through the Midwest. Placing the trains behind most of the structures allows me to continue with more urban scenery that will be along the highway at the layout edge. The buildings and scenery are a figment of my imagination and allow me to find a use for structures that other wise have been hanging out on a storage shelve.

	My new policy is building scenes that can lift of the bench work as individual dioramas. This is a preview of the planed scene as the structures most be moved to finish the room. Both upper and lower levels will be protected with Plexiglass panels to keep that hard work clean. One of those tall concrete grain silos was mocked up with 1-1/2" plastic pipe.
	A "L" to the scene provides a convenient place for my Dairy Farm. Between the Campbell's one room school House and the distant tour bus will be a motel and restaurant. This will be an opportunity for much detail. The farm buildings were purchased from a modeling farmer I knew in Minnesota when residing there 35 years ago. They have now found a home along with the Campbell's horse barn.
	Several built up structures have been waiting for a home so I selected the ones that could be used for this theme. There are a few 80,000 bushel grain elevators still standing but don't appear to be used anymore. For some of us, the hobby is an attempt at preserving history. I don't believe every structure should be weathered as you see this contrast between the gas station and other buildings. JL Innovative produces the "Drum" Style gas station Which is historically correct for it's time.
	The concrete grain silo suddenly appears in the scene as it was built later. Inspiration to build this came after just coming off another road trip along Highway 54 through Panhandle Country. Guyman and Hooker Oklahoma were a couple towns where such prototypes are found. Those silos were cement gray, but remember, this is a food service town. The building part of the structure was mocked up from corrugated cardboard so I could test the design.
	The creamery building was scratch built from a picture in a Campbell's Scale Model ad. It's made entirely from their materials including the plastic stone for the boiler house. The Harvey Company had a poultry processing plant, this could be the gathering place of chickens, milk and eggs.
	The tiny lumber company is a kit I built many years ago with the unusual green roof chalked with my #1460 Green Pigment Material. Notice the simulated rusty nails in the vertical siding made with a lead pencil.