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Most rail modelers usually have a name chosen for their layouts long before they even lay the bench work, but not me.
I struggled with a name for my layout for nearly three years. The mine site was easy. I named that part of my layout "Hawley
Fuel" for a coal company in McDowell County West Virginia that now is just a vague memory. At first, the road name was
easy, Norfolk Southern. I grew up with this line, well, Norfolk Western actually, but the same line. A few months ago I added
to my inside track CSX because I wanted a little more variety and possibly change of color going in different directions.
When looking for a dummy engine to accent my CSX GP-38, the only thing I could find was a yellow and black Chessie dummy.Thought
of painting the Chessie to match my CSX but decided I liked the color and wanted to keep the ole "Chessie Cat" around.The
name for my layout came shortly after my first grand child was born. In her honor I named my layout, Jaileys Glen, West Virginia.
When I first began my layout, I knew I would be adding a coal mine and tipple, since the
Norfolk Southern runs mostly coal hoppers in my area. I am very sure that most hobbiest begin a layout and then change it
many times in mid stream or mid construction. Here are a few photos of Hawley Fuel when I first built Jaileys Glen.
The photos below show the current layout of my tipple. I have redesigned the surface mine above the tipple and continue
to look for better and more realistic equipment for the scene. Until now, the tipple only serviced the Norfolk Southern line
and my curve radius was far to tight to add a frog or switch on my CSX line so that CSX could also be serviced by Hawley Fuel.
I cleared off a section of small mountain and added a coal loader that sits across the CSX main line so that hoppers could
be loaded.
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