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

I'm looking at photos of 2-6-6-2 saddle-tank engines, in preparation for scratchbuilding one in On30.  I've noticed that most, if not all, of the North American tank engines of this type have a gap between the rear of the tank and the front of the cab:

Back in the summer of 1979 as a management trainee on the MP, I was assigned to ride the Eagle Ford Job, which served industries west of the Trinity River near Dallas, TX on the MP, former TP.

While rooting around in a box of old paper, I found the notes I took on that trip.  Thought the group might be interested in a minute by minute account of a real switching job from 1979.

The job had engine MP 1210, an SW9 and originated at Browder Yard, west of Dallas.

As soon as I can find a ZTS map of the area, I will post that too.