UP SD40-2's NEW Layout

[UP SD40-2]

Thank you so much guys, for all the very kind words, funny, its you guys work and skills that I strive to be like/as good as, Thank you.  

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Well, Illinois court has over turned Gov Pritskers friggin plans to totally run Illinois right into the ground with a lock down until Nov. , thank god that didnt happen. "Deano what the heck does this have to do with anything?" well, last friday some businesses were able to "kind of" open in Illinois, like THE HOBBY SHOP!, well, you cant go in and brows(thats total BS...can ya tell I'm a bit mad? ) , but you can call in an order and go pick it up, so thats what I did. 

I was glad because I wanted to support local businesses, I really didnt want to order online from a "big box" company. Anyways, I ordered 8 sections of flex track, the UPS truck, and had the kid there brought out trees for me to look at. I felt bad for the kid because he ran in and out of the store with trees to show me about 4 times, cripes...I have no words...anyways, he kept bringing out O gauge trees, but I figured the heck with it, the kid is trying hard so I'll just cut them down and they will work, and they did. The cool thing was they had 4 birch trees, AWESOME, Wisconsin has birch trees, so cool, I bought them all. I totally forgot to get park benches, but no big deal, at least I got the track, YEAH!!! It was just driving me nuts to not be able to run my trains around the whole layout, NOW I can fix the sections of track on my "swing bridge" so I can easily get in and out of the layout. 

I also got some extra pieces of track to put two of them on top of my mountain, like its the end of a yard or something to that effect, this way I can put a couple more cars/engines on the layout so I dont have to dig them out of a box to run them. I was going to do a camp ground up there, but I can have that in an other area, I think I need that real estate for storage instead. I still should have a little track left just in case I come across another "track emergency" too....hey, its me, so thats possible LOL!!

PICS!! Yes, this is really the front side of GERN, where the truck deliveries and a vast parking lot exists...well, simulated. I dont think you guys have ever seen this area so here's a shot....


Obviously UP is the class1 road on my layout, but just like it really is here in Southern WI, it is on my layout, UP is the class one road, and WSOR is the regional road. I have four WSOR engines, and run them very often, usually on the inside line, while UP runs on the outside line most of the time. So, two WSOR engines get the spotlight today in the pics below...








Sorry about the rant part of todays post, you guys know I have no filter  , till next time....