Mesa City East is MANIFEST!
Mesa City has always been a favorite place for crews to work. Off the main and plenty of switching, it attracts those who enjoy just working a local with some quality throttle time. Since the expansion of the GNW, on-line industries have been lower priority as the focus was to get the layout running. Well, now it is running, and I could turn my attention back to creating some industrial spaces. The geometry of Mesa City changed enough that the main did not really run through it anymore. But... the main TOOK the real estate to go over it, thereby killing the former switching area. However, the area where the former dispatcher's office was located is now reallocated for a new switching area: Mesa City East. Connecting to it was a bit of a challenge. There is a set of shelves along the back wall that is more or less permanent. I integrated the paint booth exhaust duct into the framework, so besides removing all that, I would have to a lot of rework on existing systems. Not so