Great!
Mack,
Pick me up 3 sheets (With major projects at the club and at home in the planning stage I will want lots) , pack it up with the C-21 fragments, and post it here, tell me cost of stuff and shipping, and I'll get you a money order for that amount +25%.
The huge turning radius of the Balboa On3 C-21 will have been greatly affected by the tender. I don't have a tender, and will have to build one. since I'm not aiming at the D&RGW, I can fool around with the tender design, and perhaps get a more useful minimum radius.
I will try to bring some homabed samples to the club on Monday, and a belt sander and an orbital sander, so we can start prepping the roadbed for the far yard throat @ fort Nashburg, and hope like hell we can come up with a plan that allows for an incoming and outgoing tract to the locomotive servicing area, a supply track, to allow for delivery of coal and sand, and possibly a smaller coach yard ( no real room for a good passenger terminal, unless we cannibalize the first or last three tracks of the big yard).
In the next week or so, I can try to fire up the sawmill and start knocking out the ***** load of ties that will be needed. start thinking about ballast, as the easiest way to get neat ballast is to glue it down with the ties, when there are no rails in the way. we will also need to start to plan for stuff like spikes, and blue point switch controllers, making estimates of what we will need and buying more, suddenly we have Tyler and Eric interested in learning how to hand lay track, if we get three of us capable, we can train others easily, and that could make a big difference in the club, once you know the basics, you can build an odball switch much faster than you can find, buy and install one.