This blog is intended to document the progress of developing and operating my HO scale model of the Burlington Northern Railway, for the purposes of orienting new operators and for my own record of its design process. The layout is located in Seattle, WA and models the area from Tukwila in the south, Bellingham in the north and Skykomish in the east. The time frame of the model is approximately 1973, three years after the merger that created the BN from the GN, NP, SP&S and CB&Q.
Friday, November 1, 2019
cutting the mainline for a dual gage crossing
Cutting the mainline track three weeks before an operating session could be a mistake, but it's done now. On the left is the siding at Delta Yard, with a new dual gage turnout to provide both a narrow gage lead on the siding and a crossing of the main over to the Weyerhaeuser Mill B and other industries. But now I have to build a dual gage crossing! The good news is, if it's not working by the op sessions, we'll have a real live special instruction to use the siding for all mainline moves to Skykomish.
So far, all we have is some long ties glued down,
and some happy, if risk-prone, campers.
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