Grade crossings - finally!!

It's fun to blow the horn for grade crossings, but it helps if there actually are some grade crossings on the layout! After remodeling the Everett Junction area last year I meant to put in the new road servicing the Mukilteo team track, but it's taken till now to work on it. Last week I finally got around to finishing the grade crossings in Bayside and Mukilteo. It's (at least) a two step process: cut and glue down timbers next to the rails to maintain an open flangeway, and glue down some dirt and/or gravel and/or spackle to make the road surface in between the timbers. I used Micro Engineering stained switch ties for the timbers, but in retrospect I should have shaved them down to less than .070" in height before glueing them down, since the track in that area is code 70. I had to go back with a file and lower them after the fact, which is inefficient and messed up the stained finish of the timbers. Oh, well. Here are some pictures of the Bayside road so far:

The far end of the road just ends, so I suppose the next step is to extend the dirt road into the lumberyard and freight house areas. Don't count on that happening soon, because those areas are still under design, and subject to change.