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Oh yeah...forgot about that! Let me tell you, 3 foot long sections of flextrack are a whole lot easier to solder than 9 inch straight sections and accompanying less-than-two-inch filler sections! There were a lot of joints to solder in the old yard...took me a whole weekend to do. The new yard took an hour.Now I want a bigger shop area... I have a ton of equipment that I can store or "repair" in the shop area, and the actual shop track will only fit two or three cars if I hope to be able to service active locomotives... Here's a short roster of cars that I can shop...some of them actually need work done on them...<ul><li>NH F7A</li><li>ex-CN FP7</li><li>0-6-0 on flatcar and accompanying tender</li><li>1 section of an Impack on shop trucks</li><li>Business car that needs repainting</li><li>"Restored" 40' MOW boxcar*</li><li>40' bulkhead flatcar</li><li>2 gravel hoppers (the same ones in the epic runaway)</li><li>40' boxcar</li><li>Wooden combine</li><li>Snowplow</li></ul>Sadly, I have no room for these on the shop track, so they all sit on a track at the back of the yard where nobody can see them well. The only one that's in the shop is the ex-CN FP7. *The only reason the 40' boxcar is "Restored" and not falling apart with age (anyone who has seen how dirty I like my freight cars will know how dirty this would be) is that the car belongs to my little brother (4 in February) and he likes it clean... I showed him another identical car that was highly weathered and he seemed horrified that I'd do that to his car that he got at the Marlborough train show... I've got to teach him that the dirtier a car is, the better...[swg]
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