On the Layout: You've Got Mail!

    Canada Post has a facility on the west side of MacMillan Yard.  It's next door to Cascades Paper, a business I've modeled on my layout.  The plan was to scratch build the structure, but I decided, at least for now, to recycle a building I've had in storage.  The model is an old Rix structure built by my father in the early 90's.  Its first life was as a gas station.  I remember painting it the colors you see with craft paints.  I've always thought it should have a home on my current layout.  Now it does.

    After stripping the original paint, I tried to remove old doors and window frames.  Some of the played nicer than others. It got new paint based on the scheme seen on the Creditstone facility in Vaughan, Ontario.  I scratch built the roof over the loading zone and then added details like cameras, mailboxes, and plenty of delivery vans.  There's still a fence that needs to be added to the scene.

It's great to see this building have a second life.