Well, it’s official – I am now a 100% heartless, lifetime member of the Squirrel Haters Club.
I’ve had a train parked in one of the tunnels for several days while I made repairs to a bridge, installed a couple conduits for additional track wiring, and made improvements to some of the rock work.
This evening I tried to run it, and discovered that the squirrels had knocked almost every car off the track and heaped a pile of dirt over the rails inside the tunnel! Grrr!
Sure am glad I put in those access hatches. However, I’m starting to consider the possibility of replacing them with something lighter than concrete. Ideally a composite material like G10 fiberglass, but that would get expensive.
Death to squirrels!!