Hill Brake Needed

When I made the hill to get down to Bangor, I had to. Start a little closer to Katahdin, to keep the grade lower. During the next Op Session, it was discovered that a hill brake would be needed. I started to make just a temporary block, but decided I could get it done in time for the next session.

It took a few tries with the bending of the wire bit came came up with this.

I had to turn the wire sideways and add a washer to hold the wire in place. I used the block of wood to hold the wire where I wanted it to be.

A view of the brake when it is holding the train in place. it can be operated from a local control panel and by the dispatcher. It will also affect

Next Up Orrington

One of the reasons for these changes was to get more room for the Paper Mill. The move of JB Barrels to Bangor, means that all of Orrington can be the Paper Mill.

First up was to make the coal track accessible from the siding. I then moved the pulp track to the old JBB tracks. Then rearranged the Kraft Mill and Tank car tracks a little.

I lengthened all of the tracks, but the Coal track. As you can see by the amount of cars that ended up here the last time, it was a good idea.

I ended up with about 10 extra spots for the paper mill. Most of those spots come to the pulpwood track. It went from 2 to 6 spots.

Bangor is complete.

George C Brown Sawmill

City proper of Bangor. hood Dairy in the far left. job Barrel in the far right. Bangor Freight in the near right. Bangor Freight Station on the mainline.

New Portland Terminal Wooh Chip Hoppers loaded at the Chip track at George C Brown.

Checking to see if a car float will work.

A carfloat is planned for Portland's expansion, so I decided to test I it would work.

It appears that an angled approach would be best.

Mainline Back In Service

The mainline was returned to service in plenty of time. Since all of these sidings are new and weren't needed right away, I got them mostly in place, but didn't activate them.

In the next picture you will see a new dairy for the Milk Train to work. brown Barrel will be moved from Orrington. And a new freight station.

George C Brown will be moved from two locations to here. 

All in all I will gain four spots from here. Now onto the programming changes.

Things are coming together

After some struggles things are starting to work out. I was able to get Bangor (Old Brewer) down to a switching height of 1" lower than Orrington.

Bangor was moved to the left about eight feet to help in getting the track down to a better height.

Cut in a bridge and a place for my covered bridge while I was at it.

Upper level widening

I had 1 month between sessions and only planned on reducing 8' of upper decking by 9", but keeping the track work.  Needless to say the plan went to hell quickly. The wires were running through holes in the benchwork, which meant I had to disconnect all of them. So what happened was ~30 feet of trackwork got removed.

Since I had to go beyond initial ideas I decided to relay all of the track too.

Looking at this I wondered what I was thinking.