Kevin said he was going to pick my brain about the rail bender I made. I figured I better do something quick before my brain has been picked bare.

Here's what Kevin was talking about. In my thread on the quarry tram line I wanted to see what a 10" radius looked like and whether a quarry car idea I had would work on a 10" radius curve. So I did a test track using my home made rail bender.

Are there features of railroads at key summit locations that show up repeatedly? How often do such locations feature a passing siding? Turning wye left over from steam? Set out tracks? Lap siding? Turntable? Industry(ies)? Do any simply have a peak in the single track where? Does it matter if the summit required helpers or not? I would tend to think so, as the railroad would put in some level of infrastructure for their operations.

Thinking at the keyboard about what I want at the summit of my climb for a N scale mountain railroad featuring helper ops.

Does anybody know what happened to the <micro/small layouts for model railroaders> website? i can't seem to get to it. I hope it has not disappeared

Guys,

I have been keeping progress on our projects posted on our personal forum, so if you any of you have questions, post there because this thread will likely be locked.