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I am very glad Glen More is now looking more like a busy market town John. That's how I envisioned it from the beginning but didn't pull of first time around. I see your point about putting in a crossover to provide a headshunt for the bitumen depot but I find kickback sidings awkward to shunt and getting rid of one was a big reason to rebuild.

Pleased with the way the signal cabin looked in its new position I got adventurous and though I would put the crane and tar depot on the beet siding and see how a new beet bank would look against the backdrop. This is the arrangement I'm going with.

I am considering moving the signal cabin to the north side of the tracks. The platform with the siding behind it will be narrowed and the siding will get a goods shead.

I made a start on the beet loading bank and roughed in the hard standing under the crane to get a feeling for how everything will fit togeather. The goods yard is so much more convenient and more fun to shunt with the new track arrangement.

I didn't like the Peco derail on the beet siding at Glen More. It looks nothing like any I had seen on CIE. It finally occurred to me that there were a whole bunch of better ones masquadering as broken points in the scrap box. A few minutes with a rail nippers and a file was all that was required.

WOW! Would love to see a layout plan. Please tell us more.

A short section of straight track was fitted between the point at the west end of Glen More loop and the point to the goods loop. This got rid so an "S" curve into the goods yard and greatly improves the flow of the trackwork even though it is only about two and a half inches long. Next up will be final adjustment and securing the track, installing point motors and wiring.

Some more progress. The inclusion of some rolling stock really brings the scene to life. Track is still only temporally in place. Holes must be cut for Peco point motors and everything must be wired up. A new beet loading bank will be built along the curved siding in thee foreground.

The track will be painted using Testors rail brown and rail tie brown markers and then ballasted using Woodland Scenics grey blend ballast like the rest of the layout.

Getting there!

I have never been happy with the track arrangement at Glen More. The kickback siding was difficult to shunt and didn't look prototypical. Today I took a deep breath and started ripping up track. The photos show the new track arrangement roughed in to see how things fit. The Waterford fiddel yard will also be relaid using curved points to extend the tracks from 11 to12 20 foot wagons and a loccomotive.

A desolate scene West of Glen More where track has now been lifted.

The platform surface is heavy high quality card from a craft store which was painted grey. The photo of Grange shows how the platform, station forecourt and approach road was cut from one piece of card. The platform edging is from Peco.

A loaded beet wagon is picked up at Grange. The empty wagon was dropped off earlier by the beet special.

The beet special shunts Keilys Cross and proceeds to Grange where it meets the Cork Waterford passenger train.

I'm waiting for "Rails Through Waterford" covering Ballinacourty New Ross Rosslare and Bennettsbridge and everything inbetween!

The beet special arrives at Keilys Cross.

That is a tar depot based on the one from the North Kerry yard in Tralee. John Mayner posted a picture of it on the site a few years ago which I used to estimate dimensions.

A major rebuild is planned for Glen More with much of the material for the job on hand. Posting photos over the last few days in my way of avoiding having to start lifting track and ripping out scenery.

A few more beet special photos.

Needing a reason to run the IRM cement bubbles on my ficticious South Watreford line led me on an internet search for cement manufacturing in Ireland. Drinagh, South of Wexford had a cement factory at one time and according to Johnsons Atlas and Gazetteer had a siding until 1911. In my alternative reality cement continuead to be manufactured here until the mid seventies when the plant at Platin came online. The photos show a Drinagh Cork cement train meet with the Cork Waterford goods which is shunting at Glen More. We are also adding a few vans of beet pulp to occasional beet specials. Beet pulp was a byproduct of the sugar manufacturing process which was sold to beet farmers for cattle feed.

Thanks Paul. I obtained a few wiring harness for peco point motors from hattons and thought I would make up my own to simplify wiring (I hate soldering). I guess I'd be better off biting the bullet and solder wires to the motors before installing them.