BRofC 2-10-2 shuffles some cars at Burnham while Lil Joe arrives with a coal drag.
taken a while but now serious progress can be done on the Burnham yard.
For my layout this is another critical interchange point as the Belt Railway of Chicago will move cars on to other lines, like the North Shore I will be modeling, I will focus more on the North Shore freight operations than passenger but some passenger runs will be possible, especially when I will model the Milwaukee Terminal. I have the model for it, so there ya go.
North Shore had a very diverse Freight service, but little seen by the average passenger.
Real Burnham yard is pretty straight, but I have to bend and loop it around to fit, but the track arrangement is the same, based on the CERA book. On one module you see both the north and south ends of it at the same time but there is no physical connection, you have to imagine the distances. Some kind of visual cue might break it up.
The yard has a north and south tail track for the switching duties, because of my looping around needs I found I could complete the loop of the north and south tail tracks so now I will be able to have a loop for testing and demonstration and whatever. Perfectly level. Reality makes a benefit for the model. Cool.
Still early stages of construction the pic is a throwdown of track to test, but its working out lots better than I expected.