I have continued to test my first turnout and so far it is working great! I did run into some slight gage problems with varying wheel set types but that was easily taken care of with my Mark V and some extra spikes...all seems to be in order now:
Here are a couple shots of my sd50 with new couplers and a snow plow! I had to weather it because for some reason MTH thought that a blue plow would look good......
Thanks to photohio I was able to find more pictures of Columbus Coated Fabrics. Information is hard to come by but I almost have enough to make a decent representation of the plant!
CCF 1937: