Here are some snap shots of the new Bear Creek & South Jackson showing construction progress on April 9, 2001. At this point half of lower level staging is present, the staging lead (including the dual curved leg crossing) to Bear Creek is installed, the bottom deck of the peninsula and its stud wall are installed. Bear Creek yard has its trackwork nearly completed needing the caboose track and engine facility. A temporary two-track staging yard for Pocatello is installed to make operation a bit more interesting. And temporary scaffolding has been constructed allowing the Jallen and U-turn modules to be connected to the unused leg of the lower deck staging. The walls that separate the railroad area from the rest of the garage are installed as stud walls and electrical power for DCC, switch stands, outlets, and room lighting is installed.

The next tasks are installing the drop ceiling under the garage door (above the Bear Creek turnback blob, and getting started on the roadbed and track heading East (and up the hill) from Bear Creek Yard to Mill City.

After reaching Mill City a new temporary Pocatello staging yard will be added. At this point I anticipate doing no more trackwork until the tracks, benchwork, turnouts, etc. on the lower deck are thoroughly tested. I definitely don't want to be doing maintainance on turnouts (especially a double slip switch) when the next deck is installed above Bear Creek!

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Note: These pictures were digitized from Hi-8 video tape so the photographic quality isn't as great as it might otherwise be. For construction photos they're ok.