Well, after a break due to a few various family emergencies, I'm back at work on the SVRy! The start of the line up to Larch Summit, on the way to Whitney, was the existing tail track on the S-Wye. I tried turning a short train there and discovered there wasn't room! So, I decided to lay a few sections up the line, just for a bit more room, and it got out of hand. I should be working on more ground texturing of the tailings, tedious and boring, but tricky, and with 4 miles of tailing piles to go......... Anyway, I got carried away and put the track in up to Larch, which is about 1500 feet above the valley floor. It twists and turns, at 3-4% grade all the way, and taking a train up or down is really a challenge. I don't have any trees, stumps, trestles, or other details in, but here's a shot looking back at Sumpter Valley, from the top, with the Blue mountains in the background. The facilities up here consist of a siding, wood piles for the engines insatiable appetites, and a wye for turning helpers. The grade goes from 3.3% up to 2.7 down in about 1/4 mile, must have been interesting watching a train go over that hump! Probably pretty easy to pull one apart here too.
Steve T.
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I've run out of steam with the #50 (not yet released), 1/4 mile from the top! The tracks are only about 3 miles from Whitney, and once there, we'll have 43 miles of mainline and several logging spurs. The switches and a bit of track will be in for most logging spurs, but they are a tangle like logging roads, and to do them all would add at least 400 miles of track!