Hedley Junction

[sailormatlac]

Well, the project is moving forward. Villeneuve's sidings are mostly completed and only D'Estimauville and the staging need to be built before the layout is fully functional again. It's been almost a year since the last "real" train moved on the layout, except for local operation.

The cement plant trackage will probably be built during December. The goal is to hold our traditional session during Christmas vacation.

In red: built trackage, in white: unbuilt trackage.



Early 2015 projects will include replacing the peninsula code 100 track with code 83 and building the new sidings in Clermont which means serious benchwork modifications. That's also the only ballasted part of the layout, so I'm not in a hurry to replace the track there too soon.

I'm also working a lot on the cement plant car fleet. Lots of hoppers, about 30 and few more covered hoppers. A least, it's good practice to perfect my weathering skills. Unfortunately, no work done on the GP9s... But the GMD1s are doing a nice job in their stead.

Sorry, no pictures, I forgot my camera...

Matt