Rusty, thanks for that link. It is an amazing layout I had not seen. Also thanks for the comments on the River Raisin engines, I was thinking of trying to find one of the NKP Berks. It sounds like I should be able to run it.
Attached are two more pictures.
This one shows track with guard rails on a bridge. The track is MTH flex, the guard rails are Micromark code 125. It is almost impossible to see the difference in rail height but we could not get the highrail wheels to work with the code 125. Code 100 and 83 are quite a bit different and do provide a much different overall appearance of the track.
This one shows the frog, wing and guardrails on a #6 turnout behind the caboose. These are open frog but allow both scale wheels and high rail wheels to operate with so far 100% reliability. The devil is in the details of both the turnout construction and precisely accurate wheel gauging of the highrail wheel sets. Also note there is no ballast above the ties. We found the slightest bit of ballast near the rails caused operating issues with the highrail wheels. Cleanup after ballasting was time consuming. Note the Legacy PRR diesel is smoking nicely
