Well, it has been a week and on the surface it appears that nothing was accomplished. I tend to grasp at straws, so I am pleased to report that the room has been nearly cleaned out. That might not sound like much, but it took three dump runs and several filled trash bags waiting for a 4th!
I have also managed to settle on a benchwork design, so when I do get started, I'll know where I am going. This is what I decided on:
Got more work to do in prepping the room, but one needs to crawl before once can walk.
Tell us more about the "B"
Tell us more about the "B" line.
Eric
Anaconda, MT
It's all fiction
The "B" Line is a 100% fictitious short line, which connects the fictitious New England city of Beaufield with the smaller towns of Edgewater and Eastland. The full name is The Beaufield, Edgewater & Eastland, shortened to Bee, then to B. It also happens to be the first letter of my last name. I picked it when I was a teenager, at the advice of an old time modeler who advised me to pick a short name so that I would have an easy time lettering locomotives. Those were my HO days, but it is even more important now that I have switched to N.
I have long dreamed of having a large point-to-point layout, and for a time, it seemed that I was going to have that chance. Situations changed, and I got tired of accruing rolling stock and track and not doing anything, so recently I abandoned the big layout dream and decided to utilize a junk room in the back of the house. I had created an entire fictional scenario for the "B" Line, including government grants and forward thinking city councillor's (told you it was fictional). In my mind, a railroad needs a reason to exist, hence the background. I am mostly interested in what is called commuter rail in todays lexicon, and have chosen to model the B-Line after the MBTA commuter rail in Boston. Of course, the B-Line also handles some local freight.
I know, I'm crazy...so what?