St. Giuseppe: a town once full of promise. A large part of the citizens worked in the lumberjack industry, but they had to walk quite a bit to their workplace every day. That's why the company came up with the Log Express: a special way of transport. Quick and effici??nt were the keywords. It was an amazing modernisation at the time. Unfortunately, the lumberjack industry faded and a mining company, M.onster Mining, took over the site. The lumberjack industry almost disappeared and the town lost prestige, but this train did not. Although being decades old and a collapsed bridge, it's still running to this day. And now, the Log Express Lumberjack company invites YOU to take a ride and experience the machine that once made the lumberjack life in St. Giuseppe so much easier.
This project was made in a couple of days because my original RU 300 project unfortunately crashed (now I know why a back up is so important...). It is not great by any means, but for making a lot of the theming (which all passes the clearance test) in just a few days I think it does not look too bad. Of course this did not win or even reaching honorable mentions because look at those yourself, so much cooler than this.
I take this as a gentler family-style coaster, and, as such, the design is spot on. I appreciate the slow buildup of speed, as many coaster designs tend to get slower, or at least lose a sense of speed towards the end of the layout. Can't say it gets the adrenaline pumping, but then that's not really what family coasters are fore. Really good theming and scenery, and I love the attention to detail in the storage tracks, though I question having two transition/switching platforms. If the goal was to be able to add/remove trains during operation while minimizing the impact on capacity and dispatches (Like, say, Big Thunder Mountain in r/l), I would have used a switching track setup, which also would have fit the theming a little better, looking more like a real world rail stock yard.
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