This is my first post. And with it I would like your critiques and suggestions of the track plan I have designed for the new house I just bought.

This layout will be a 12'x12' L shaped switching layout based around 1 industry with a small staging yard on each end.

Laurentian Coated Products is a 292,000 TPY capacity integrated paper mill located in Northeast New York on Lake Champlain close to the Laurentian Mountains of Southern Quebec. Era is contemporary.

Okay, you guys and gals are probably thinking "oooooh, I wonder what this is! It sounds like a movie trailer, and a bit exaggerated, but I'll look anyway because the title sounds catchy.". Well, basicly, I ordered a B&M Dietz vesta, it came today, I found the wick was the wrong size and had been sloppily trimmed, the wick tube was loose, and the fuel tank/burner assembly was not coming out. I managed to get it out using a hammer, and a skrew driver (the lantern is fine, it wasn't as nasty as it sounds, and I did try using maximum strength first).

A few days ago, I celebrated a milestone with my wife - 20 years of remission from cancer.  But the other part of this milestone was that the time I spent in Chemo was when I was building my first layout.  (1 module survives yet).  Or the time I was in the hospital putting rooves together for some covered bridges.

It has been a while since my last update on the layout so here is a quick review of what I have been doing.  As the title suggests, it has been a bit of slow going.  For those not familiar with muskeg, it is swampy, wet and muddy and usually very challenging to make progress through.  There is a lot of it in northern Manitoba, and people in my profession (geologist) are intimately familiar with the challenges of getting through it.