well guys long time no posts and no new work on the layout it has been hard here with my son me and my wife found out last year that he has a very rare gentic brain dissorder and would not see his 10th b-day he just turned one back in nov and me and wife been out of town with him seeing doctors and i had no time to even do one new thing on my layout last night was the frist hour or two i had to do somthing and all i did was clean track and pull off all 300 + cars i have to dust them off after over 3 months of nothing i need to get back at it i been thinking on adding a new part on to it for a steel mill but it's just on paper now. but some day it will be a new part. well off to read the posts to try to get up to date on them wish me luck