Upcoming Changes

Now the the track is fully installed, I'm making a big push to get the rest of the trains in operation. It has taken a major rewrite of the schedule. 

All locals will now be turns. The AB/BA trains will pick up switching at Belfast. The northbound milk train will start placing the empties at the dairies. Passenger and commuter service will be back in service. 

This schedule should start in July.

Train watching

Ran across the Rocky Mountaineer sitting on the siding outside of Canyonlands NP and Moab around noon.

Bangor is now open for business.

Finally got the Bangor Panel in and wired up. All towns now have local control. Opening Bangor means 4 new industries and 12 more spots. It means that three trains will have more to do and I can start up piggyback service again.

The only places with no local panels are two staging yards.

I did a thing!

I couldn't help myself. I ran across a good price on an engine that matched the paint scheme I fell in love with. I bought it. Really it is too modern for my layout but then again it is my layout. Plus I have a club I can run at.

Acadia now online

The control panel for Acadia has been installed and is working. Time to add rolling stock and change waybills for the new industries.
The wood jobs will have more work. The milk trains will have more stops. Maybe even time to bring out some passenger/commuter service.
Bangor will probably have to wait a bit just due to time before the next session.

Local Control Panel location.

I am debating putting a control panel for an upper level town on the lower level fascia. I did this on the last layout. So, for all of you that were at my last layout, was this a problem that I didn't know about? The issue here is that I can't shrink the panel size and putting it on the upper level could be somewhat in the way.
If you have thoughts on this let me know.

Katahdin is active

Local control was installed. Eight new spots and a reactivating the Wood Job out of St. Albans. All of the Wood Jobs trains will have somewhere else to go other than the paper mill. Waybills will be printed and placed out tomorrow.