5: Staging at the “Clackamas club” is split into Albany
and Bend areas representing the west and east ends of
the modeled railroad. Returning cars are sorted onto the
shelves according to type, and then assembled into new
trains according to traffic demand.
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MRH:
“Since Oregon has a tendency to grow rocks . . . ?”
Rick:
(chuckling) “Yes, we had quite a few that were rather huge.
Luckily we were able to expedite the project when one of the
members had a friend who had a pneumatic jackhammer. If we
couldn’t have used that, we would’ve stayed in this room and just
have a different layout.”
“We took out some major rocks. In fact, we have four of them
out in the courtyard. Those are the significant rocks -- the last rock
that was taken out of the back basement and the last rock that
was taken out of the front basement.”
MRH:
“David – about how complete is the layout?”
Columbia Cascade &Western -
MRH-Feb 2013
