Today, me, my wonderful wife Terry and my cat Pumpkin assembled the track for the inner loop around our to-be redesigned City scene. We are adding a 2-track industrial siding next to the zoo as well as a spur onto the city wharf, a stub track for switch engine storage and switches to allow trains to pass from the inner to the outer loop and back again at 2 points around the city to facilitate switching operations. Terry and I were both on the platform at different times assembling track and it was Pumpkin's job to rub against us and walk between our arms and legs as we knelt on all 4's doing our work. Pumpkin will be very disappointed when the layout is back together with full scenery and trains. Now, in its stripped-down form, the layout serves as Pumpkin's playground. Afterwards, we ate a bottle of Motrin and collapsed.
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