the N scale version

The Burrlington Northern has an N scale version upstairs in the living room, that we built before the HO version, in 1980-83. I designed it for operations, but had various challenges with derailments and poor loco performance that never made it fun. But recently, I tried out a Tsunami-2 sound F45 on the layout and tried filing the switchpoints on one of the most troublesome turnouts. The result was, for the first time in almost 40 years, I actually had 30 minutes of fun switching the layout today! What a bonus! Here are two photos of the F45 in action. The string of boxcars are being spotted at what will be a large sawmill complex sometime in the future. Hopefully this won't be too much of a distraction from the more important work downstairs.