7: Looks like lunch break at the Ruston Fuel Depot
while a double headed eastbound freight crosses the
Moose River Bridge and a “Woody” waits for a pair of
F units to clear the crossing.
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Jim:
Easy. You have to have a place to park your trains so I began
with the four-track hidden staging yard at the north side of the
room. They say mistakes are simply lessons to be learned and lots
of mistakes are called "experience." Well, I've had my share of les-
sons and experience. I learned one of my first lessons soon after
I had finished laying the staging yard that first winter. The tracks
were all neat and straight and I hadn't yet covered the yard with
the upper level.
However, the following summer I found all four tracks had
warped; they looked like snakes crawling over my layout. Yikes!
I hadn't worked with flex track before and didn't know to leave
expansion gaps in the rails.
