Andy Clarke said:Now that's funny !!! :D :D
How many engines will fit on that deadline???
Looking good Bart.
A bit of work done over the weekend, the turntable lead to the left and the 0-6-0 is sitting on the switch lead. Both tracks will probablybe extended as needs dictate, but fer right now they’re long enough…
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The third track through Pearce Yard (the one the boxcars are sitting on) is now complete and this allows some limited operations…
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Its amazing how complex things can be with only one locomotive and four cars,even something as simple as putting the test cars away got REALLY coomplicated…
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Testing with one of the big locos, 120 is prolly the most picky of her trackwork, so i tested with her, this is at the entrance to the yard with the beginnings of the mainline in the backround…
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For a locomotive thats such a PITA, she reallytakes. Nice picture…
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Looks great Bart - Just don’t have so much fun working the yard that you don’t have time to work on the main 
Just like a real railroad…piles of ties everywhere along the ROW
Ralph
When will it be finished?
David Russell said:I've known Bart for about 5 years. In that time his railroad has never been finished. But who's really has?
When will it be finished?
Finishing something means you don’t have a vision for the future!
Even when you think it’s done, all of a sudden, you come up another idea, and start working on it again… A true railroad (model or not) is never done…
But you all know, you only have to cook a “Rooster” for 1 hour at 375 degree’s and it will be done!!! Maybe a little tough, but done!!
Is this some sort of cooking web page ?
Andy Clarke said:Thats my story and Im sticking to it Andy! jon its been that way fer 15 years or so..........I just keep coming up with new more better ideas.....
Even when you think it's done, all of a sudden, you come up another idea, and start working on it again.... A true railroad (model or not) is never done...
So the mainline has pushed south around the curve and has arrived in Buchanan Junction
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The sidings are half done, and await me to finish the other two turnouts in order to complete the track here…
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120 heads a string of boxcars testing the new trackwork. The track she is on is the mainline The Loop Cutoff line will intersect with the operations mainline again at this point…
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Northbound outta The Junction headed around the curve towards Pearce Yard…
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Birds eye view of the consist on the curve…
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120 has eased onto the arrival track and is heading towards the turntable lead while 111 simmers on the switch lead to stow the test cars for the night…
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Looking great Bart!!! I have a couple of questions.
#120 is a good looking loco, did you build this? I see that you have a cast frog in your switches, are those commercially available?
Thanks, Chuck
Progress! It looks good Bart. I can almost figure out what you’re doing,
Yep 120 started as a Bachmann 4-6-0 …i cast my own resin castings from a styrene master…
sweet…
nice progress, Bart… I know your on a ““Deadline””…
Glad to see your finally filling up that big back yard with something besides grass,
OK…so puter problems have prevented me from posting pics for a couple of week, but there has been quite a bit of progress on the WV&K line…
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The trackwork is finished beyond Buchanan Jct. I still have to do the interchange spur for the branchline but I have been concentrating on geting the mainline in before the 4th of July, then go back and get the industrial sidings…
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Three weeks ago grading was completed into the site of Chandler, this involved moveing a 16 ft portion of RR that was orginally part of the branchline and now is being repurposed. The track already on this section is going to taken up and relayed elsewhere…
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two weeks ago I psent the weeked fabricating all the turnouts needed to complete the mainline project, turned out 5 in two days. This past weekend dodging thunderstorms I completed the roadbed benchwork for the Cutoff Line …
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In the foreground is the curve leading from Pearce Yard to The Junction, in reality the Cutoff provides a continous running loop from Chandler back to the Junction, but operationally the two locations are miles apart, during operating sessions each end of the cutoff will be presented as an industrial spur in their respective locations. Here is the loop as a whole, two more boxes of tie strips arrived yeasterday, this should give me what I need to get the mainline complete this weekend!
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nice looking progress, bart…