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Hidden Staging
Inspired by my trips on the Potomac Eagle, I decided to add a hidden staging yard that will be modeled after the Wappocomo station and the adjacent service yard.
I cut through the wall that is next to my office and workshop, and added the staging area by installing a simple 2x12 shelf supported by brackets along my office wall.
In the process, I added another wye and redesigned the coal mine area to add more spurs, since I now had the wye to facilitate switching the mine.
This eliminated the runaround track at the mine, which was too short, and limited the size and number of the spurs the mine area could support.
Photo Shoot
My club mate and friend Bryan finally found the Southern Mikado 4501 that he had wanted for so long.
He brought it over to the layout to run, and we decided to do a photo shoot to post some photo's of it on the OGR forum in the Weekend Photo Fun Thread.
In the process, it makes a nice update for the scenery progress in and around the town of Sleepy Hollow.
