Bonus Room Shelf Layout

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Andrews is named for my first son as well as paying homage to the Gorre & Daphetid. Andrews will need to be switched by the road crew of the time freight coming and going, since there's no runaround. There will definately be a small ore mine. The other two sidings will most likely be a team track (parallel to the main, with the station to be in between) and a pipe dealer or some other small industry.

The tunnel is a device to hide the run to Pinto. The creek serves to separate the two scenes. A bluff or hillock along the creek would allow a small mirror to be placed beneath the bridge just outside the tunnel mouth to extend the creek around the bend without anyone seeing their reflection (or any train's reflection).

Pinto will be slightly elevated, thanks to a grade in the tunnel. This is another visual trick to separate the scenes. Industries in Pinto will be a little more rural, with a produce shed and livestock pen (I'm thinking pigs) in addition to the passenger and freight stations. The track in front of the passenger depot will be the interchange track with the Big Tujunga (Ta HUN ga) Lumber Company. The imagined idea is that off the layout there's a turnout connecting the two parallel tracks, when for the purposes of this end of things that won't be necessary. It'd be nice, but it would also be right at neck level in a hallway so I doubt it'll get built like the staging turntable.

The BTLC ships mostly finished lumber out in box cars, on flats, in gons, however, and receives mt's. There's the occasional load of balast (gotta run that Hart Gon somewhere!) or fill dirt, and maybe even some coal hoppers. Otherwise there wouldn't be coal on this layout anywhere, and that's just a sin in this part of the modeled world! If there were a coal branch that connected there that could suffice.

The dashed line for the 'module joint' is just for benchwork purposes. This is a 10' segment and I want to put the gap somewhere that it wouldn't split a turnout. More than likely the benchwork, once it's upstairs and joined together, will not need to be separated until we move or the layout is changed somehow, hopefully many years from now.

Okay, that's all for now. Whaddya think?

Galen