The little town of Andrews is beginning to shape up.

It's almost Feb. and I want to keep the blog as current as possible. I've got some guys coming over in February for an operations session and we will be breaking in a new timetable for the trains operating on the railway.
As I said previously, I'm modeling a bit of the WW&F and a bit of the SR&RL's. This allows me to model a branch line which looks a little like Wiscasset and Albion.  Another branch represents the Kingfield area on the Sandy River.  There is also a short branch (in and out of a single track staging yard) called Franklin.  All three of these branches come into the town of Troy, (aka Strong) where cars are switched out, the majority heading down the mainline to the Maine Central interchange at Burnham Jct.
While nowhere near prototypical it allows 3-4 operators to stay pretty busy for a 5hr. session.
The majority of the trains are "mixed runs" but there are a couple of First class Passenger trains running between Troy and Burnham Jct. where folks can board MC trains heading down to Portland.

My end of the line town of Andrews was named for author and modeler Dick Andrews. I was really drawn to Dick's style of writing and his cartoonish artwork in the articles he did for the Gazette.
I had the pleasure of meeting Dick during the 8th National Narrow Gauge Convention as he had done the artwork for the convention T-shirts we were selling.
The town of Andrews tries to capture some of the sights of the Albion yard on the Wiscasset line.
Fellow WW&F modeler (and blogger) Brian Bond had graciously given me a model of the engine house that needed only a bit of weathering.

I've made a start on a small frame turntable for Andrews. It's in place and working however I still need to finish the upper supporting structure, but at least operators can now turn their engine for the morning milk train.