First I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. I will have a few postings Spent yesterday working in the train room doing a few things. The main thing I worked on was hopefully the last track I will ever have to lay on the this layout. I have been contemplating a spur on the Mine Run Branch for a possible woodchip loader. Yes, the same one I've tried to put a handful of places on the layout. The loader is going to be small and only handle a car a week. The spur is also going to serve as a parking area for the local engine based out of this area. The whole process took a little long than I liked but everything worked out.
I finished up the evening working on the sand loading facility infrastructure. Still got a bit to do on that. One other thing. I recently past 50,000 views on this blog. (actually, almost to 51,000 now) Thanks for all your support and time reading about my Virginia Midland Railroad!
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| The new woodchip spur. The track to the helix goes to the left and the Mine Run Branch continues to the right |
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| The hopper will be a VMID chip hopper. I'll run the piping off and add trees and backgrounds. |
Congratulations on passing the 50K milestone! I really enjoy reading your blog and following your progress. Merry Christmas!
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Nice update Shannon, are you planning an ops session soon?
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to more updates during the break!
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Thanks Scott and Greg. Most of the views have been the last 2 years. Might do an op. session during break just to try to configure the lower level operations.
ReplyDeleteI like the sand loading 'tower'. Can you tell me how I can find one, for my plastic pellet loading track?
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