David Husman dave1905

I am in the process of building my Phase 2 of the W&N  and after completing the Birdsboro yard, I started building South towards Phase 1 on the peninsula.

May original concept had the Trap Rock quarry at the end of the peninsula, with a storage track/runaround and a couple spurs, then a siding on either side of the aisle (Joanna and Conestoga) with the Elverson, French Creek Jct. Wye area a the end of the aisle. 

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However that turned out to be too ambitious and ended up consolidating Elverson, French Creek Jct and Conestoga at the end of the aisle and just putting a couple small switching areas on either side of the aisle.  I was building that plan and got sub roadbed and roadbed around the end of the peninsula.  

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A couple nights ago I was going through the RDG Shippers Guide and the timetable to get some ideas of what industries I was going to put on the new part of the layout and I had an epiphany.  The station right next to Trap Rock was Company Farm, one of the longer sidings  on the branch.  If I disconnected the Trap Rock runaround from the quarry and extended it, I could have an additional siding.  After some quick measurements to make sure it was possible, I decided that it was worth giving up  a couple cars of storage to get an additional meeting point.  I removed the Homasote for the short runaround and extended it, and will now have the plan below.

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Dave Husman

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