There has been a still on my layout for 38 years or more . It’s one of those woodlands scenics white Metal kits. I had it in my old Gizzard , in the middle of one of the loops , but very well hidden. I’m thinking Dr Tom had operated on my mountain for something like 12 years before he noticed it.
Right now, on my new Gizzard, I have it on a rock formation just across a stream from log camp. Passenger trains go down that spur to get turned, so they can back into the station at State Line, to save time and aggravation turning the locomotive and the head end cars on the turntable.
Wasted a lot of time today, although I did a lot of planing. Will Fly to visit the wife, and she will ride back up with me in her old car, and will stay here for a while, before flying back to Texas, where she will start driving her parents car, since they don’t drive anymore, and she has to use it when she takes them places, as they have trouble getting into her car.
After farting away most of the day with a combination of important planning and then wasting an impressive amount of time, I built 12 linear feet of benchwork, in four 3 foot sections. The two for the lowest level on the back aisle, are two foot deep and three feet long. The two of them will but up against the end benchwork, all ready constructed, and will reach to a few inches of where the cave cove bridge’s benchwork is.
The other 6 feet of benchwork, also in 3 foot sections will fill in between the completed end section of the lowest level of the central peninsula’s end benchwork, and the benchwork where I all ready have a switch for the return loop in place, and wired with a reverser for the return loop, and two switches, so the return loop will have two tracks, to serve as a passing siding, and or Staging.
Having so much fun! And my moonshiner, his name is Jerry Jack Jones, another of my many Grateful Dead references.