Southern Pacific's Jefferson Branch

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Jefferson track is in!

In addition to having to figure out a little more of the particulars of how each of the final scenes will be, the whole family has (had) a nasty sinus infection and we all are on our second and third round of antibiotics! To top that off, when I went to install the track, the very first piece of track I went to cut broke the jaws on rail nippers. The only place in over 100 miles that would even carry them was out and didn't know when they would be back in stock. I had to order a set and wait for them to get here.

I did bump Vegely DeFind out 2” and the main set of building/s along the backdrop will end up being about 5' in length. The building/s will have about 3” of relief but will vary for different parts of it as the portotype bakery in LA that inspired Reinhard and his original build of Mutual Grain Service.



I bumped out Seiad Cement a little but not as much with cross over to the area taking up some of the real estate there. I shortened the track to the final length. I also worked out the rail ops plan for it where it will have 4 cars at any time will only rotate 2 cars every other time Vegely DeFind is serviced.



I bumped out Arcata Plywood 1.5”. The length of the main building will allow for 4 cars and 2 wood chip cars on the other track.





All of the feeder wires are in and just need to be tied into the bus. Once I get the over springs in on all of the turnouts I will be able to run trains from Humboldt through Jefferson which is better than 2/3rds of the layout. I did put in a temporary track along what will be the Placer Creek scenic area so I can use that as a drill track for switching Jefferson.

That still leaves the valance, backdrop and the track for Siskiyou Lumber before it is “complete”. After that it will be the car forwarding system, the inventory of the rolling stock & getting those up to standards, motive power rounded out, the backdrop and .....................

On other thing I am thinking about is filling in the corner as you first come into Jefferson. Since it is in the corner the aisle width extra deep. Even with the mock up addition the width is 41”.





That's it for now.  I wound up getting a few  E &C SP wood chip cars that will be distracting me in the mean time