 Hi, I'm Mike Confalone, and welcome to my Allagash Railway set in West Central Maine in the late 1970s. We're standing at a location called Andover, Maine on the Allagash. This is on the White Mountain Branch. We've got an interesting project we're going to do for you here. I'll just give you a little bit of history on the model railroad here that we're looking at. This is part of the original Woodsville Terminal short line that I had done several years ago, which was eventually rebranded as a branch line on my new Allagash Railway regional set in Maine. This particular track here is part of a branch against the White Mountain Branch, terminating here at this sort of gravel pit and cement batch plant area. In theory, this branch continued beyond this grove of trees here all the way into Shelburne, New Hampshire, and beyond at one point in history, hence the name White Mountain Branch. The branch has obviously fallen into disrepair by the look of the tracks here. There's not a whole lot of traffic on this branch, and this is end of track for the White Mountain Branch. It's a marginal branch line on the Allagash. It's something that gets as needed service. What I think what we're going to do here is maybe make better use of the space and create another interesting industry for the railway. As you can see, we've got a very narrow bench here about 12 inches wide with a digital photo backdrop that wraps around on a piece of styrene in the corner and terminates here at this end. We've got a cement batch plant up on the backdrop here, and been a period of consideration in terms of what kind of traffic to model in this area here. We've got a lot of sand and gravel. We've got the batch plant for cement. My thought originally was to maybe load cement here, have some cement towers, but I think a better bet is to do something a little more bold and adventurous. As you can see this aisle I'm standing in here is kind of wasted space. I think we're going to utilize some of that space and create a rock quarry, a place where the railroad can come in and haul out crushed stone for railroad ballast or for any number of construction projects. What I'm going to do, just give you a brief explanation before we get into actually doing the project, we're going to actually disconnect this fascia. This is a difficult decision to make because essentially this is a finished scene, so you never want to break into a finished scene and mess things up. But in this case I think it's going to be long-term benefit of the model railroad. We'll actually disconnect the fascia right about here and pull it back towards me and bring it against this wall here. Kind of at a nice, gradual angle terminating here. This entire corner then will be a rock quarry. When I say rock quarry I mean an area where blasting and drilling of rock would be done. So something relatively tall, steep and mountainous with exposed rock that's been blasted away. What's nice about this space for this project is the fact that we have a corner here and we can mount the scenery right into the corner and I think it's going to work out real well. So again we'll break the fascia out, bend it over creating a nice sweeping arc here that follows the course of this main line and we'll throw a switch in up here ahead of the crossing. It's going to be pretty tight, very, very tight actually to get a switch in here. And that's going to branch off and go into the quarry for rock loading. This is code 55 rail in here which in retrospect I wish I hadn't done. It looks really great in terms of its rickettiness and it looks very dilapidated which is cool. But I like to use microengineering number six switches and I'm going to have to get a number six code 70 switch to mate up with this code 55 rail or rip this out entirely and replace it with code 70. I hesitate to do that. So we're going to try to splice a switch right in here and then have that siding branch off and then we'll go ahead and build the rock quarry. We'll show you step by step how we're going to do that with some interesting scenery methods and I think you'll find it quite interesting. And at the end of the day we'll be pushing some ballast hoppers in here to load up with some crushed stone. So without further ado let's get busy at Andover Main on the Allagash Railway, the quarry project.