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No problem John. Right now things are progressing slowly. While I am building up my diesel fleets and adding to my rolling stock, I am also acquiring models that have been purchased for available space on the layout. Testing has been on-going on hump design and implementation for the humpyard. I finally settled on a distance and height of the hump through many hours of testing it on track and cars. My humpyard and hump has been designed so that once the cars are released at the crest of the hump, by the switcher, they roll down into the classification tracks on their own power-simulating retarders and such. So far, it works great. The design is going to be quite unique, in that it has never been done before, at least to my knowledge. It is a curved humpyard. Not exactly prototypical, but space became a problem when trying to locate the doubletrack mainline, branch line and several junctions and interchanges. We are also going to place the staging area underneath the main layout, and it will serve the purpose of a coming and going area for out-of-area trains. One of the main interchanges will come from staging and eventually return to staging after making its rounds around the layout. As I said earlier, pics will be posted as construction begins. I will keep you updated. -Wolv33
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