November 1, 2021 marked our layout’s very first practice operating simulation, when we ran both the “Hurricane Turn” and the “Handley Turn” out of South Charleston, taking specific manifest cars from that yard to spot, both east and west.
This was the first step in discovering the many “fixes” that are needed in track, electrical, rolling stock and motive power. All were noted.
History
History: An explosion in Hurricane
“Persons on the streets were swept off their feet, hurled through the air, and smacked roughly to earth, many stunned and knocked breathless.”