Sidewalks Part 1

Posts may be lighter on the text for a while until there's ample justification for a lengthy explanation.These sidewalk segments are marketed as a station platform. They're still available from Frenchman River Model Works here. While they're beautiful on top, the undersides are inconsistent and cupped. This is not a problem if you're using a gooey adhesive that can take the imperfection. Still, to be safe, I sanded mine to as close as possible to 1/8" thick for consistency's sake.Also, as cast, they include a stone edge strip on two sides. Mating two end-to-end makes one "platform" with a stone border on three sides. I decided which segments would be my street corners then sanded away the end edges from the rest so I could create longer runs of brick.Originally I had planned to make some of the sidewalk narrower by half but changed my mind. That meant I had to shorten the spur at the Chero Cola bottling plant by about an inch. I soaked the ballast, nipped the rail and chiseled out the…