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Tyler's been in California, riding PCC cars, the outside of cable cars, BART, and MUNI, photographing said excesses of railroad awesomeness, as well as railfanning in Jack London Square. Oh, and hiking in Yosemite, exploring San Francisco, and road-tripping through the Central Valley. Life is good. [:D] California was to my summer like running down a hill unable to stop until you slam gratefully into a big rock at the bottom. That's what my summer has felt like. The last few weeks of it were spent working four or five days a week (not so bad until you factor in my 2.5 hour commute each way) with the free days filled with other activities. But now that life is back to as normal as it ever gets, I can start working on my personal projects again including the WRS. Recent WRS projects have included finishing Agrawal Paper and surrounding scenery in Enfield, rebuilding the lift bridge and reversing circuits, installing a new dedicated loco track in Lebanon Yard, and reworking my car-card and waybill operating system to include empty car orders, almost all of which you can read about <a title="WRS Blog" href="https://sites.google.com/a/trahans.net/wrs/blog">on my blog</a>. Upcoming projects include getting started on the huge box of Supertrees on my floor (the largest value pack they have) as soon as I pick up a jug of matte medium, finishing the industrial section of West Canaan, most likely with Walthers' Magic Pan Bakeries, which will be called Claflin Foods. Of course one of the trailers parked outside will be BN. [8D] Oh yeah, and some upcoming weekend from now Alex will be dropping off the WRS' latest power, a pair of GP15-1s, another GP18, and an SW9. -------------------------------------- Sawyer, about your staging yard: Unless you only plan to EVER have 1 manifest train OR no through trains and have the local pick up cars from an interchange (knowing you, it'll be changed by the end of the week though! [;)] ), I would highly recommend having at least two staging tracks, more if there's space. When I was adding my staging yard, I built it to hold four trains, with runaround capabilities when one or less train was staged there. I thought I'd only need room to stage the manifest cars in Concord and White River Junction (both ends of the railroad) plus the single intermodal train, which needs the space to runaround it's train. Now space in the yard is tight, since both the manifest and intermodal need to be able to run around their trains, which kills two and a half tracks for storage at those times. If you add a runaround track, keep in mind that whenever it's needed for that purpose, both tracks must be empty. This will really limit your car storage capabilities - all active cars need to be in the town or on that train. My recommendation: I would either add more staging tracks (three preferably, with two double-ended) or if space is an issue, a runaround track and a cassette connection for shoving cars onto for storage. Even shoving cars onto a cassette hanging into space is more satisfying (and realistic) than picking them up by hand in the middle of a session. Trust me, it'll be worth it.
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