Well it has been almost 2 months since I wrote anything. That doesn't mean I haven't been doing anything on planning. I have indeed. I have been looking at different benchwork ideas for one. Some of you may have seen me making a bunch of posts on the Mianne benchwork??? topic. The foremost question in my mind has been trying to figure out how the access to the access holes will work. Well maybe the old aging process has been helping me along. My knees have given me a lot of trouble (One was operated on when I was 50), now it is mainly arthritis. I don't want to stoop down, sit down and pull myself through, and for Heaven's sake I don't want to crawl in there. This past week I was leaf blowing and raking, then on the weekend I was crawling in the old closet under the stairs looking for stuff; now my bad knew is giving me trouble like it never has before.
All that is to say, I am really reconsidering the plan everyone has helped me so much with. So, I went back to the drawing board, and came up with a partial revision of the latest plan. If I remove the serpentine down the mountain that causes the need for the access holes, I am left with a loop to loop arrangement. Considering the small space I have to work with, I think I am going to have to go with something like that, and use my imagination a little more. Imagination!! That magic word I remember Barney the big purple dinosaur saying so much as our girls watched him faithfully when they were little.
So here is a feeble attempt to revise the latest plan. Dave or Carl, would you be kind enough to help me? I'm including the latest SCARM file and a screenshot of what I am thinking of. For the purist, I can still run short trains point to point and change out cars. For the longer run folks, I can make a few laps and pretend with my imagination that I am just getting to the other station. What can I say? Trying to cram a railroad in O gauge with no access problems, and a big wide open door on one end of the room only leaves so much. Whatever we come up with, it will be so much better than the double loop Ceiling Central in the other room.
