They had an operating session on Saturday. I had a bunch of stuff I had to do, but I did take time to drop by and get some work done.
Dr. Tom started out dispatching, and I sat next to him to help confuse him, and worked on a bridge deck that will go on the passing siding in front of the Sawmill. I have the ties all on now, so as soon as I can get the rails spiked down , I can splice it in, and then my next project will be to put in sub roadbed for the sawmill complex.
Tom's not waiting. He got someone else to spell him @ dispatch, and fired up J.E.P. C.& L Co. # 34 a proto 2000 USRA 0-6-0 and made full log runs Going up the switchback to the camp, assembling log trains and running them to the halfway done passing siding @ Patterson, or into the nearby yard, which we have decieded will be where the trains get assembled, or delivered when the sawmill area is full up. Tom and I are going to try to set up the sawmill with a simple track plan, trying to make it friendly toward big trains, rather than being a switching puzzle ; so we can spend less time @ the mill and more time on the main, getting in every body elses way, which is , after all, what we are there for.
Bill Nelson