L&N Industrial Rail Spur

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Ed,
It's been some time since you have posted. hock: Are you still content with the latest layout plan and do you have any photos that you care to share?
Bruce

Bruce;
Thanks for your interest. Haven't been doing much of anything with the layout for the past few weeks for one reason or another. Having been snowed in several times, you'd think I'd have been spending a lot of time working on the layout or building something, but just hasn't been the case. I think I've hit one of those slumps that happen to all of us now and then.

As for the latest layout plan, after operating it quite a few times, I've actually found the runaround track to be more of a pain than anything else. In some ways I like the idea of the locomotive always leading the train, but in other ways it just feels out of place for an industrial spur that is just a bit over 1/4 scale mile long and seems to have very little purpose. Using a caboose on the train is also a hassle, but would have been done in my era (late 70s to early 80s).

I've found that now and then, it's a good idea to just back off and let things settle down for a while; so we'll see.