February 2006

I have made some changes to the larger end of the layout on the second level. First off I moved my planned passenger station siding from near the back of the layout the the front side. I have also by doing this have given more space on the siding for much longer trains, since now I have two tracks that wrap around almost all of the large end.  This all came about with my idea to add a second entrance into my under ground yard and wanting to eliminate a O-31 switch I had used in the yard ladder and replace it with a O-54.  Well what transpired is I wound up moving about 5 legs of the yard tracks but now I have a much more functional yard and I think a much better view of the trains. I plan to place my station over the pink foam topped tunnel and have a road there also which will when crossing over the two tracks head into a auto tunnel or up a hill to the 3rd level.