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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by ttrigg On my Rosebud Falls RR I currently have 5 "unused" (abandoned) sidings. 2 will be used to make the long run out through Rosebud Flats (~80 ft run along back fence weaving through the wife's mini roses) and then make the turn to Green Apple Orchard (~40 ft run along side fence under dwarf apple trees). (construction phase 4) One "abandoned siding" will become the Rosebud Falls Yards (using 2 "3-way" switches) (construction phase 3) with a main line running from the yards across a bridge into an existing garden shed to a "storage rack" system (phase 5). The other two "abandoned sidings" will lead to the Lighthouse (phase 2) ,and the other will climb the mountainside for a scenic tourist ride up to the falls, and the TIMBER TRESTLE BRIDGE I have wanted to build for YEARS!!!!!! (phase, 6,7,&8). These "abandoned sidings" have been setting out in the weather, uncleaned, unbalasted, unused for over a year. Mother nature has done some "balasting" and a lot of weathering, some ground wood mulch covering the rails and ties does look ABANDONED. These sidings may be "abandoned" for the next year or three, but will eventually connect to somewhere. But I'm considering designing and building an abandoned line half way out the trip through Rosebud Flats, making a turn through Strawberry Flats. maybe leave the ties and parts of the rails from a defective switch and a few pieces of missing rail along the way. (that will probably be something like construction phase 55! [/quote] I think that abandodned spurs (where as yoy say, nature has done the ballasting and ties are covered) and sidings give a layout character! Capt Carrales
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