TRAIN LAYOUT THOUGHTS
For years, other’s expectations
Colored my operations…
Electrical blocks
Of track (lots),
For two-train considerations.
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Problem is–I
Don’t know many other guys…
Only one “club”*
Accepted me, bub,
Since then, how the years do fly!
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How many trains can I RUN…
The answer is just ONE!:
With a couple of places
As engine storage spaces,
I’ve over-built–that’s what I’ve done.
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In staging, I can keep two or three,
Trains to appear frequently…
The chances of TWO
OPERATORS are few–
There’s room for only me!
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For one big block the need is,
With lots of electrical feeders…
Keep It Simple for Success**
Prevents the mess,
I’ve gotten into other years.
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I’m thinking of a place of yesteryear,
Where two New England railroads both appear…
The Boston and Maine
And the New Haven, the same,
Find interchange and switching dear.
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Industrial railroads exist
Where private companies find it best…
Better profit when alone,
They their railroad own–
When profits drop, they get it off their chest.
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Something like that is what I mean,
Or some very similar scheme…
A tourist line, too,
Helps the revenue
With industries that match my kind of dream.
–Jonathan Caswell
* only one “club”…the guys at the Tioga Transportation Museum…back in the early-to-mid 1980’s
** K.I.S.S. (one possible use of this nemonic)
By the Mighty Mumford 