Changes ... Changes

About a year ago the first phase was started, when the section between Roseton and Dogwood was redone. The area called Junction was removed, along with the Blue Ridge Branch. Work as continued on this phase with the installation of a back drop behind Dogwood and the development of the area between Marc's Printing and the White River Bridge as discussed in past posts.

In June, Phase Two was started. The Paper Mill was disconnected from the layout at Greenfield. The connection with MEC was torn up and the MEC Yard was also disconnected from the layout.

Now it was time to install new benchwork to allow for a 180+ deg corner to connect Dogwood with White River Paper Company. As part of this new benchwork was the completion of the backdrop started in Dogwood.

Now Greenfield is the new home of Green Mountain Limestone's operations.

This is the view from Farmer John's field of Greenfield and Green Mountain Limestone. The town of Greenfield may stay or may not.

Now it was time to install the other side of the backdrop before installing the new framework. One of the issues with the old Paper Mill, was the ground was not even because of the way I build the modules. This time, there is no modules, it is all "L" girder under the Mill. The new Mill is a little longer then the older version.

This is the view from the end of the bench work, on the right is the "hole" connecting to Greenfield.

This view has the dry power unloading track on the left, in the center is the Shipping Building, on the front right is the two tracks for the Mill yard. The main line curves around the Shipping Building to end up as the third track from the right.

This shows the far end of the Paper Mill, with the Receiving Warehouse in the center and the Boiler Plant on the left. The main line (third track from the left) goes between these two building. On the right is the Chemical Unloading building and on the left is other end of the Mill yard.

With the new arrangement, there are a few more spots to unload cars. More on this later.

Now for the main reason for Phase Two, the South Yard.
Below are a couple pictures of the present arrangement of the South Yard/ MEC Yard. Once the area from Dogwood to Roseton has had more scenery added, the Yard will be re-arranged.





That is the update of the changes to date. The revised layout was operated as part of the Grand Tour, which I got notice of the date a week after I started this work.

later

Doug