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an update....

Northend Richland is a crossover that is really 3 locations. "Northend Richland" and "Diamondale" beginning of double track into Cedar St Yard as well as "Vermontville" with the Gates spur. The spur makes the area cramped for handthrows. http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o176/999trainman/the%20K%20...

no plan what so ever....just wingin it.....i know what i want on the layout so im just making it work....rough in the curves with radius tools and stringline and lay track.

some action on the Line.... http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o176/999trainman/the%20K%20and%20L%20Rwy/106_2133_zpsye1f3qww.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o176/999trainman/the%20K%20and%20L%20Rwy/106_2137_zpsz0fbtten.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o176/999trainman/the%20K%20and%20L%...

here is Enfield now. Added the "Enfield Switching District" which has the K&L freight house Kalamazoo Crane and a lead to Checker Motors. the mainline goes yowards the bottom left crossing the Kalamazoo river. http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o176/999trainman/the%20K%20and%20L%20Rwy/106_2229_zpszi...

Trains are rolling!!. still much planning and track work to get done but...freight is moving. Enfield Yard with the AM Yard Job working the lead while train #10's power waits on the "old main" http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o176/999trainman/the%20K%20and%20L%20Rwy/10172580_1056384384388577_39783...

finished most trackwork at P Jct tying together Enfield and Richland. Main panel known as Enfield Yard Office in and partially wired. First test run thru P Jct from River Crossover to Southend Richland. P Jct http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o176/999trainman/the%20K%20and%20L%20Rwy/inservice_zps63...

have filled the gaps in the bench work...also layed out the new "Parchment" which includes "P Jct" far end and "Yard Jct" near end. http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o176/999trainman/the%20K%20and%20L%20Rwy/benchworkEnfieldtoLansing_zps829dcdb0.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o176/999trainma...

the new layout has started. reusing what i could of the old and making new where needed. theme is the same (1940's mid Michigan line with PRR ties). "the plan" http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o176/999trainman/the%20K%20and%20L%20Rwy/10302038_1039885479371801_7103971165853069684_n_zps207bd48c.jpg ...

a "worst case scenario" has taken place on the K&L RR....its been abandoned..... http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o176/999trainman/Kalamazoo%20and%20Lansing/theKampL_zpsb68f324b.jpg family has moved into our own home instead of a rental....the K&L Rwy will return soon in a new form with some saved...

was just down in F-Town last weekend.....guess imma drag the family back there next weekend ......ill bring my own beer :p

the bridge....is built..... was offered some used (but free) Micro-Engineering 80' bridge girders so I "skinned" the existing bridge...added some 1/24x1/24 sills painted girders in "lamp black" and deck in "slate grey" sills "burnt umber"... http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o176/999trainman/Kalama...

crews have started construction on the Jennifer Lynn Bridge over the K-Zoo River at Enfield. It will be a double track curved plate girder deck bridge. It is not my intention to build a prototypically correct bridge as much as something functional and "pretty" as it were. Using 1/32 birch plywood fo...

LMR's South yard in action... K&L northbound train #11 ready to go the inbound #10 and local cars in the yard. http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o176/999trainman/Kalamazoo%20and%20Lansing/000_1285_zps22118e97.jpg Cedar St Roundhouse with K&L #310 on the table http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o176...

speaking of "the Turn working SpeedQueen"....heres a shot from 2/09 and a shot from 12/13

some action from today.. the AM hostler wyeing the road engines backing past P Twr... http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o176/999trainman/Kalamazoo%20and%20Lansing/000_1274_zps1d03c523.jpg the Turn working SpeedQueen from the siding as the northbound Morning Dove leaves Richland station http://i120....

i dont think so...South Yard is a north "end" of my railroad and is basically an interchange yard. Any industry would be switched by the LMR anyway ...but plans have changed before

The K&L announced today that the Lansing Manufactures Railway's South Yard is spiked down and Cedar Street Tower is wired for full operation.

the mainline ans siding are spiked down with feeders in place....surveyed for the turntable and got that built and installed yesterday...

its been a while i know!!...and yes hopefully better "point to point" operation now....have one other extension planned for a "Downtown branch" off the main yard