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<p>The sun comes up burning off the fog. The engine house is alive with activity as the steam engine is "Booted up" very early in the morning. In the mean time there is a switcher set assembling the train for the short trip to Falls Valley further down the line. A few tanks for the oil depot, boxcars for the bearing company, some reefers for the coldstorage and perhaps a few more coal cars for the dealership who still has a few homes that fire with coal for heat and hot water.</p><p>In the mean time the short commuter train has stopped to get what few people heading to the big city far away.</p><p>The agent is gathering paperwork for the day's work and trying to sort the stack of mail and milkcans accumulating at the creamry. The creamry workers sort the milk tank car connections and anxiously look down the line towards the interchange track watching for signs of the connecting railroad that is a few minutes late arriving to pick up the milk. Perhaps the yard office agent is buried in phone calls trying to get a road crew up and wrestling with the stacks of waybills for the conductor for that day's work in town.</p><p>Not even 8 AM and there is alot going on.</p><p>Note that I havent actually got the train on the way to Falls Valley yet.</p><p>Im not very good at telling stories. But if you work the track and set up small areas to make the story tie together in the space you have then you have a seed of a railroad yah?</p><p> </p><p>With that in mind I already know I would want room for a small engine house, water and coal etc. A station, freight house and creamry and trackage necessary to connect and a very small yard with just enough room to sort cars for falls valley and interchange with a connecting railroad.</p><p>I already have these structures. The problem is the passenger train, connecting train and trackwork to make it all happen in the room allocated just for these three items and it all has to be seperate from the industrial area nearby even if by just a street and a retaining wall.</p><p>Falls valley is on the other side of the room slowly growing to fill the availible space and track work is literally growing in bits and peices each month. I know that when the last two industry buildings are placed, I will have to stop buying structures and focus on track, scenery and little things to blend it all in.</p>
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