The engineering team says it "should be okay", go for it. So the track team is making preparations for the expansion. The track will be worked from back to front. Track will be worked on the bench and then put in place.
There are twelve tracks for staging. Track 1 & 12 will have the return loop connected about half way up. The back half of these tracks will hold shorter trains and the front half will be clear. Track 2 will have a crossover in it and both passenger trains will be on this track. Each will be a little over 5' long. The rest will be full length of at least 10' in length. This will hold 12 fifty footers and a caboose with two engines.
If by some odd chance the return loop becomes improbable and I go with stub ended tracks, I can increase to 15 staging tracks.
I already used up all of the available used code 100 track that I had for staging, so I started to tear up the last piece of track work from the old layout. Now to start cleaning the pieces to see if there is any usable track.
I take it the bottom picture is the removed old staging? Or did the BR&WM have an earthquake during construction? :)
ReplyDeleteThe old staging. All cut up and gone.
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