Jimmy Shepards “Amanda and Sara R.R.”

[Bfagan]

 Jimmy Shepards “Amanda and Sara R.R.”

Size fills most of a 16’ by 20’ loft, HO Scale
Folded dog bone design two villages at each end of dog bone Amanda. and Sara named after my two daughters.
Center island Redwood City yard and industrial area engine service includes a pier Many other smaller villages named for grandchildren.
Double track mainline and a branch line going to Doreen’s Woods named after my wife
Serves 20 industries of many types including an army base 4th division training base named for outfit I served in Vietnam with DCC NCE system also features night lighting
Era late 1950s early 1960s central Pennsylvania trackage rights Pennsylvania, Reading Lehigh Valley
Realism Scenery structures main focus several structures feature interior details . Campbell kits often used.  (There are 37 outhouses around the railroad)
Completed March 28th 2023 although you never finish took 3 years to design and create many structures from previous layouts.

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[Freight Train]

Great detailed layout and what caught my eye was the mention of 37 out houses on it and made me wonder how those were serviced back in the day compared to the mobil vacuum truck services that vacuum out the excrement from septic tanks & potapotty's of today. Apparently they had what was called gong farmers and could be a potential dangerous job.Here's a excerpt I found online :
((Outhouses were built over a pit, which was usually three to six feet deep. When the pits became full, most outhouses were moved to another open pit, and the filled pit was covered with soil. At times, however, professionals, called gong farmers, were called in to empty the pits. This was a dangerous job, sometimes resulting in suffocation or illness.))
I didn't mean to go into gross territory but certain work details had to be preformed when those out houses got full. And a secondary thought came to mind if anyone ever modeled gong farmers on their layouts filling in a hole & digging a new one to move the out houses over the top of ? Detailing at it's finest or a gross representation of ??!! 😳😉