1. Here’s how the Green Mountain Paper Co. complex
in Everett looked just before I decided to shift gears
and abandon the freelanced scene in favor of a proto-
type scene.
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proved to be incredibly popular assignment with his operators
over the years.
Everett was based on a mishmash of inspirations from various
New England locations, and by some model railroad scenes – I
imagined it to be something like Bellows Falls, St. Johnsbury, or
Bennington moved north of White River Junction along the CV
… I got as far as roughing-in some of the buildings but, while
the operating interest was there, the scene never really came
together. The main issue was such a large complex really didn’t
fit with the theme of the CV in the 1950s in northern Vermont.
And therein lay the problem. Although I tried no end of build-
ing arrangements, street arrangements, and the like I could
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