BGT Episode 10: Terminology, Tools, and Trainiacs

Wow, hi, you’re actually reading the episode notes. I never do that when I’m listening to podcasts. Whelp, here we are. I want to formally apologize for taking waaaaaaaaaaay too long to put this episode together. Graduate school is a bitch. I honestly haven’t progressed on model railroading pretty much at all in the past six months. Mount Gretna Narrow Gauge kind of lost my interest; it was too simple, too short-lived, and too demanding to successfully recreate in my space allotted. I’ve recently started looking into another railroad, the Altoona and Beech Creek (known by half-a-dozen names in its 30-year lifespan). It Is also a nearby narrow gauge railroad, and it also served a pseudo-tourist purpose, delivering them to a resort, overlook, and picnic ground on the top of a mountain (I am quite positive it is the shortest railroad to summit the Allegheny range), but it is different, and more optimal for two reasons. First, it continued past the resort to some coal mines, which add a lot more intrigue than a hilltop-resort-and-back passenger run, and second, it is shrouded in much more mystery, such that there is a good chance I will never be able to fully reconstruct a completely accurate track schematic. This would allow me much more flexibility to accommodate it to the space that I have available. No solid plan yet, but I’ll let you all know on the Patreon blog what happens as things develop.Anyway, enjoy this episode. It’s one I should have done a long time ago, but I absolutely promise we will get to construction next time!