After being away for a few months thought I'd check in. Besides my pc committing suicide I had some family matters to deal with in November up in Canada that have kept me away. While I was on that trip a major ice storm rolled through Oklahoma. The result was numerous tree branches breaking and crashing down on the track. Another less intense ice storm arrived during the Christmas season with a few more branches coming down and causing some minor damage that would have to wait to be prepared once warmer weather arrived.
Unusually warm weather arrived a couple of weeks ago prompting me to get out and make repairs. As I viewed the damage I decided that I wasn't content with the size of the layout... that the 100 feet of existing track was just too much.
Studying on it, I decided that the time had come to change things and say farewell to the line. I pulled up the track, stripped the rail from the ties and gave some thought about what my next step would be.
That next step is a 50% smaller layout called the Norinoo Junction Railway which I'll chronicle about on it's own thread...
http://gardenrails.myfreeforum.org/sutr ... php#116393