New Plan

[scubadude]

Thanks for the info, Mike...yes there was very little coal in NC, however as a kid growing up in and around Orange County, NC (Mebane, Hillsborough just north of Ral/Dur, we studied the Coal Glen mining explosion. I included coal on the layout to represent this at some point. For now, I will loosely represent a coal mine by bashing the Walthers New River Mining kit. In my retirement years, I will scratchbuild this event [http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancest..._glen.html]

Not to mention I have the Athearn Challenger from the Clinchfield that is just itching for some mountainous photo ops!

I know the Texas & Atlantic Railway is geographically unlikely, hard to find cattle, oil, cotton, coal, lumber and all their deliveries on one layout, but hey........