Version One leaves little room for the additional historic short lines associated with the Klondike: the Cliff Creek railroad line and the Coal Creek railroad line, both with terminals on the Yukon River.
Phase III, v. 2
This one seems to allow room for the additional short lines I am contemplating. Either plan can handle the very short Bear Creek line, which consisted of four identical Porters and a line of ore dump cars, plus the WPRy extension that I will probably connect on to the end of the KMR line at Sulpher Springs.
There is more coming on the additional historic short lines.
The Yukon River / Klondike River / Bonanza, Eldorado, Bear, Cliff and Coal Creeks:
These present an interesting construction challenge. I will set aside sufficient room to represent sections of all of these river bodies with the intention of ultimately using real water.
The nature of the ground presents from real problems here, so I have to assume there is some likelihood that some or all of these waterways ultimately may not contain real running water. However, that would be the ideal.
Incidentally, the final layout should about double the existing track, bringing it in length to somewhere between 1800 and 2200 feet depending on which options I ultimately build into the line.
