After about a weeks work on fixing various 'glitches' and making what seemed like 1000 trees, both the original Hickory Valley and newer Ross Run logging modules are 'done', tested, and 'finished' and ready for Altoona. (Hey Chris333, it's finally 'done'.)
Most have held up pretty well, a broken wire, beat-up scenery, and one burned out Tortoise machine, all good. My 1976 engineering has held up, if I can remember why I did it the way I did....
I'd always designed both modules to be very flexible with connection tracks to the outside world. Ttrak didn't exist when I started these, and I just went back and replaced all the 'off-module' track connections with T-track style track joints. It's a lot easier to just click those together than set in rail joiners with a pair of tweezers.
At some point these modules were ultimately designed to interface with the "Big" T-trak layout via the original West Hickory module, that brings a track out 90-degrees over a diamond and across the Allegheny river, another module that's already done (Hickory Bridge). So, finally, the ultimate design plan here is 'almost' done.
I will credit Altoona as a motivational factor, every year there's been at least one module literally rushed to completion to make the show.
