Happy Monday- no train time again this weekend. We actually had two consecutive days of sunshine! Got lot's of yard work done. My son power washed all of the patio furniture and we set it out for the season among other things.
I mentioned the other day that I was pondering a change to one of my elevated loops. Both grades are way too steep, better than 3%, but the one on the right through the pass is the worst of the two. A loco pulling more than one or two cars can't make the top without help from the hand of god. Gotta hold your breath on the down hill run with free-wheeling post war locos too. So I'm considering eliminating this grade and making two spurs out of the track, one on the base level and the other elevated. This would give me a little more room to park equipment and more switching options, and since I rarely run a train up that grade it's really wasted track which is at a premium on a small layout. I played around in SCARM last night and came up with this. It should work. Now I gotta make some time to do it.
I can still run trains between the two loops on the left side which is something I don't want to totally give up.
Bob
This is the hill my locos can't climb.
