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Guess where I went this weekend? I biked over the rail trail that I model, in modern times, as if it were never abandoned! I made some comparisons between the actual place and my layout, and here are my thoughts:<ul><li>There's several miles between Mascoma Lake and Lebanon (and the line parallels a river the whole time with tons of river crossings, but I don't have room to model that... </li><li>Mascoma is sort of not there, so I have a lot of work to do there...may end up replacing my heavy industry (which appears nowhere on the line, excluding the many paper mills) </li><li>Enfield is very residential so I may have to take away the heavy industry there and turn it into a more realistic representation of the prototype (there is a paper mill in just the right place for mine though, except smaller!) </li><li>The Mascoma Lake Pass (the 4% grade) is actually incredibly close to the real thing, despite having been built when I was still modeling a DIFFERENT prototype railroad, and later a bunch of freelanced towns. I have the right curve, a rock cut right where it should be, and a dip in the ground where a road is. I have some work to do, like adding the road (and a bridge underneath the tracks) plus some details like old signal foundations, drainage pipes, all stuff I photographed and noted locations for.</li></ul>Photos and stuff will be coming in a couple days...
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