At the meeting a lot of discussion centered on the Lincoln bottleneck. In the end we all agreed that we should have a switcher at Lincoln, maybe at Heron's Landing also, we should run all the trains not just freights ( this could be done with train order cards), 2 man crews on all freights, we could make other runs like a tank car train from Shell Oil to Coastal Oil, while making up trains make sure each one has no more than 1 switching job in Lincoln, and reducing the car cards going to Lincoln. Agreement was swift that we should buy new peco turnouts for the Ortona yard, and get 2 lengths of track for the approaching, curved track. The old Sunset siding will now be Great Lakes Steel siding for ore cars, need to find a steel pland backdrop. The seeds for a future plan to lengthen the switching leads in Lincoln, freeing up the main line, was planted. The meeting concluded and various jobs were started. The approach track and yard ladder for Ortona was started, turnouts to the sanding rack were installed and some scenery was put in around Heritage Furniture.
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| new card box at Lincoln |
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| one of the scenery crews |
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| working on the Ortona yard |
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| track work to the sanding rack |
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