Thank you Curt!
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
For those of you playing along at home, you know I've been feverishly getting rolling stock in order, waybills written, and working on getting a full blown ops session staged. I've prepared a schedule that includes no fewer than 25 trains, and I've got everything pretty well stacked up in the staging yards, all chomping at the bit to get started. Reminiscent of the hours leading up to the Conrail Historical Society trip out of the bowels of 30th Street, I give you the calm before the storm:East staging, with it's four long balloon tracks, holds a total of 10 trains, including two locals and a short dimensional train. (It seems Westvaco ordered some big honkin' equipment from Germany, and it arrived at Port Covington ready to transport)That's a look across the east staging yard, shot from the lift bridge at the entry to the room. Them's is a lot of freight cars...And looking west from a location that will be less visible once Cumberland is installed. I'm seriously thinking I need to get some of those lipstick cameras.Meanwhile, over in West Staging, a more conservative four trains lie in wait, while the FA helper set stands at the ready to give a nudge to a dangerously long and heavy Alpha Jet there on Track One.And due to the volume of traffic now coming up the Shenandoah Valley, we've added a couple of N&W U25B's to the fleet. Here they are lugging NW-11 out of the yard at Ridgeley, and speeding it back to Roanoke.Let the games begin!Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net