Since receiving the last turnout (the double slip) last week, I have been spending very brief moments in the layout room checking the alignment of the yard ladder with the double slip. I quickly found that the double slip was too long and caused issues with the yard ladder alignment and the yard storage capacity greatly shortening the yard tracks.
This was disturbing to me as I wasn't sure how to rectify the issue. I only have so much space here. Last night, I spent a lot of time staring at the track configuration, moving turnouts around, etc until I finally found a layout I like. I was surprised later when I found I had been working this out for two hours!
Here are two quick pictures of the revised track configuration. One turnout will need to be pulled up at East Ottawa Yard.
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The bad out of this...I don't need the double slip. I checked to see if it could be used elsewhere, but no dice. I will hold on to it until I complete the trackwork for the entire layout, but it appears it will be going up for bid on eBay. I should be able to move it though.
In other news, I have seen some photos on eBay of the RI sand hoppers with a large billboard logo. I really like it and think it will be an easy logo change for the Athearn Rock Island airslide hoppers.
Here's a pic of the prototype I want to re-create.
The Athearn airslide hoppers that I have in stock.
The Microscale 60-19 Decal Sheet required to make it so.
I hope to play around with this soon. I'll post pics of my progress.
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