Layout Progress: Bull Lake

The ice has just melted on Bull Lake and although the cottages still look deserted, in a couple of months the lake will be busy with families enjoying a relaxing getaway.  The 12 daily trains on the line normally do not even slow down as they travel through Bull Lake--there isn't even a passing siding in the community--but from June to early September the local passenger trains stop at the little station.  Bull Lake is a tiny community, with few year-round residents, located along a rural road (NB Route 595) near the Carleton/York county line

With the completion of the scenery in the Bull Lake section of the layout, the scenery is now basically complete on the two levels in the new section of the layout.  However, the benchwork for the third and lowest level was installed this week and the track is about to be laid for the Millville terminal yard and east-end staging.  That will complete the layout.  Then I can focus on maintenance, on updates to the older parts of the layout, and on the installation of a signalling system.  I am hoping/planning for regular operating sessions beginning in the fall.