Getting Real Column - 10
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20: Now we’re getting somewhere! Or are we? The
more I looked at this developing scene, the more
uncomfortable I became with it.
Clearly it was time for another bike ride! I kept think-
ing that despite the sheer length of the new location,
it still didn’t look right, due to the curves necessary
at both ends of the site. If I was going to relocate this
industry, I was determined to do it right. That meant
having as much track to the right of the unloading pit
as to the left of it, permitting loads to move through
the unloading process and end up as empties past the
pit. If you want to run a 16-car grain train, modest by
any standard, and do it with two tracks, that meant
12-14 linear feet of railroad. Fortunately most of these
fairly modern terminals are stub-ended, or at least I
found ample prototype examples of just that.
21: Basically the area was a mess! My paint booth is
under the yard on the left, followed by tools, paint stor-
age, and of course the removable bridge to staging is
smack-dab in the middle of all this.
MRH-Dec 2013
