Hello,

it's been quite a while since my last post. I continued on my Garve and Ullapool Railway and rebuilt my Leckmelm modules. I also laid the track at Inverlael station and build a small fiddle yard for the branchline that leaves the main line at Inverlael.

But in early spring I constructed a second level above my Garve and Ullapool Railway. There I will built a H0 american layout. loosely based on John Allens Gorre & Daphetid.

On the second level over the peninsula which houses the Fiddle yard and Inverlael, is the place for an alternate Gorre station. The rest of the layout will follow along the walls.

Here is the trackplan which I changed a bit in the meanwhile.

I lengthened the track which on the original G&D would have gone to Daphetid. I also included a small two track yard between the headshunt  and the track to Daphetid. The next alteration I made to the trackplan is, that I put a passing siding on the line to Sorethroat.

A bit of history of the Sorethroat Branch.

Around 1900 a prospector found cinnabar in the mountains near Sorethroat. The local  businessmen at Sorethroat decided to fund a railway from Sorethroat to Gorre. Here they could connect with the G&D. Within a short time the line was built. Because of the restricted space at Sorethroat the Railroad company built a turntable at the end of the station so that the turntable could be used for running arround the train.At Gorre there was no roundaround sidingat first, because the S&P got trackage rights on the G&D. But these was added a few years later. In the early years of the S&P G&D president Vanderslip decided to built a Cinnabar Smelter at Gorre.                                                                                                                                          During the 1920s the S&P got into financial trouble and was acquired by the G&D. During the Great Depression in the 1930s a massive landslide burried a large part of the line to Daphetid. Due to the lack of revenue on the line to Daphetid, the line was never rebuilt. And the Gorre was the end of the line. After the takeover of the S&P there were plans to built a wye at Gorre, but with the position of the cinnabar smelter these was not possible.

In my timesetting for my G&D we are in the years after the war. The G&D is a bit of anachronism. Because there is a lot of rolling stock and vehicles would suit an earlier period.

Here some pictures from earlier these year.

Markus