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The Shops

We only have a few photos of the large Bingham Canyon shops perched on the mountainside, they were always trying to fine space, like us modeling. My small scratch-built engine house on the Copper King Mine and Railroad.

Cribbing

You cannot have enough cribbing on your layout, around tunnels bridge abutments holding back the mountainside. At Bingham they used everything for cribbing.

Locomotives Copper King Mine and Railroad and Bingham Canyon Mine

Here are my Locomotives on my layout, also talking about Bingham's, they had it all at one time, Shays, large Steam, small Steam, Electric big and small and Diesels.

Secret how I make my Ballast

With over 300 feet of track I needed a lot of Ballast and inexpensive. So, this is what I came up with, I made several different colors, I really like how it turned out. DSteckler I made the brown for you

Copperfield a Town above Bingham

Underground mines and layout design


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