St Paul Pass II - Level 3

After exiting St Paul Pass tunnel, we are at an inconvienient height - that's why there will be steps located on the floor for the convenience of the operators.

Now, we are on the east side of the pass and have reached Montana at (1) when we leave the helix representing St Paul Pass.
At (2) we have East Portal siding and head straight for Bryson (3). Maybe, I should try to put more curves in this stretch?
The track between Bryson and Saltese (4) whith the low trestle should also be located nearer to the edge of the benchwork.
We pass through a last tunnel (it's here because it passes over the staging runaround track!) and arrive at Haugan, Montana (5) with the wye and the shed for the snow plow. (6)
There is no way to model the NP connection in any way, but I can live with that. And the wye is on the wrong side of the track, but again - I can live with that, too.
The track makes one last horseshoe curve and heads into East Staging (not drawn with all 18 tracks). To gain room for the second entrance the runaround track (7) runs over the line between Saltese and Haugan, but parallel to the helix coning from level 2. It crosses under the approach track of the helix at (1)

That's it - we have done a journey from Plummer Junction, Idaho to Haugan, Montana on the St Paul Pass II.

I'll have to plan how to make the central part (the long tongue) and think about how to make the duckunders but other than that it's pretty much straightforward.

Dismantling of StPP I will start after our video session in July when we'll have documented StPP I in all it's glory. The layout served me well for over 15 years. The kids have grown and start to leave home, I got older and wider, have a very good (and demanding) job, so let's do it.

Start of construction is scheduled for early 2012, I'll just make the new dispatcher's cabin and the relocation of the electrical components in 2011 to give me more time for re-thinking....