Pete, yeah, that was when things didn’t look to good here. I was job hunting pretty hard, and the career wasn’t going to be here. That was probably a year and a half ago…maybe, I can’t rememver. So, I did nothing to the layout but run trains for a long time. But, things look good now. Really good. So, I’ll plan on retiring from this career in about 11 years or so. Then move to warmer climate.
I’m off work until…I think August…so I have some good time on my hands to get some work done. I’m not sure how much detail I’ll even do to the extension. It may just stay as the pvc road bed for a while. I say that, but I REALLY have one scene that I want to try and model. Soooooo, I may try and do that. We shall see. I am going to finish the town next. And I know my ocd probably won’t be able to take the fact it looks unfinished with just pvc roadbed… I just hope I don’t buy a ton of those retaining wall blocks. Ugh. Seriously, I will have to fight that urge.
No double tracking. It will all be single track mainline. IF, I have room there will be a loop for a coal mine and a flood loader, then on the other side of the yard a power plant. I want to be able to run a point to point with a coal train, but I’m afraid I won’t have the room to do it. I have a siding at SRB feed and seed. It will hold a local with a few cars. If I make the track go through the fence and around, that could be another siding. So, there could be opposing trains. But, it’s just me running trains. I have had Ken Miller from Mt. Juliet, Tn. come by and run trains. Also Scott and Aaron Fowler have come over and ran. Ken is coming back this fall to run and the Fowler’s are waiting on me to get done withe the track expansion. haha.
