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track – no way!). I’m modeling the CV’s climb over the Green
Mountains – but I’m planning on doing it without any grades
at all. They play havoc with tractive effort, can cause opera-
tional issues with vertical transitions, and can even cause
issues with structures and industries (with spurs on grades).
I've concluded that in most cases grades are simply more
trouble than they're worth.
And the simplicity of visible, open, staging is extremely appeal-
ing to me.
8
8: It’s been a little more than two years since the exten-
sive rebuilding started. There’s still a long way to go, but
at long last parts of the CV Winooski Sub are looking
less like a construction zone and more like a railroad.
It’s been about three years since the “Sea Trial” session, and
about two years since I pressed the “reset” button. I’m pleased
to report considerable progress has been made at putting
things back together. All the benchwork, trackwork, and wiring,
with the exception of the south end staging yard, is in place.
And, with the trains running again, I’m planning on hosting a
“Sea Trial” session in the next few weeks. And, in a few places I
even managed to rough in some scenery (Fig. 8)
So that’s the story of the somewhat painful journey of how I
ended up with a layout that’s right for me, and how I changed
course midstream to produce a layout that’s a perfect fit. I
think the layout now offers a wide variety of wonderful model-
ing projects based on a favorite prototype, can provide a lot of
fun for as many as six people, but still be operable by one or
two folks as mood, and availability, indicates.
Then and now
The following photos show the layout in its double-deck 2008-
2010 configuration compared with a photo taken from the same
location as the layout appeared during the tracklaying phase in
early 2013.
More photos on the next pages ...
MRH-Mar 2013
