The Track Dept. informed us that the main interlocking will be out of service for the rest of the morning at least...  Perhaps it would be a good time to take the yard vehicle and give the new conductor trainee a tour of the mill.

  We'll start with the woodlot.

The two major pieces of the BQR are now sitting in the rec room in our new location. I have been contemplating how I want to rebuild and change it. In the old location it was tucked into a tight 7'x10' corner. So of necessity it had an 'L' shape. The new space is 20' long but limited in width. So the old landscaped helix goes at one end and the yard at the other. And something new in between. The landscaping survived quite well -- I had packed up all the trees, structures and figures -- they are still at the off-site.

A part of my layout design & initial build is what if any automation strategy should be employed and with that what elements are needed.  The overall aspects will likely evolve with the layout.  However, the first sections that will be built are the staging area.  These will be permanently installed from nearly day one.  So the automation strategy for that section is really needed now.  

Time to turn my research to controlling the two turntables on my layout.

One question first. Will a DCC reversing module be needed on a turntable?