Model Railroad Hobbyist | July 2016 | #77 LITE AND NARROW column larry smith The Birmingham Southern| Birmingham Terminal Railroad The last time we visited the Birmingham Southern (mrhpub.com/2016-04-apr/online), now the Birmingham Terminal, we saw its colorful history along with its expansion and contraction when its industrial customers changed. We saw the diversity of the industries and some of the elements that would be required to model the railroad. Then we had a sneak peek at how one modeler, Craig Gardner, has inter- preted these elements to develop a layout based on the railroad. Layout development A question for the reader: Have you ever taken down a perfectly good layout? If you have, what was your reasoning behind it? To be honest, I admit doing so. The problem I had was the lack of passing sidings, only at each end of the track plan, and the unavailability of walkaround throttles for a 1980s DC layout, making the layout miserable to operate. So 20 years ago the X X RAMBLINGS ON THE NARROW GAUGE • INDEX • TABLE OF CONTENTS