I'll get the ball rolling

Here's the plan for the Ruphe and Tumbelle Railway Co.

On30, of course

freelanced

30" min. radius

all switches no. 6 except for some no. 4s in the staging area.

era is mid 30's

It is operated point to point with connections to the Musselshell and Sweetgrass Rwy. (staging on one end)

and the Canso Central and Pacific (staging on the other end) These are  the Rwys. of my friends, the M&SG is being built and the CC&P is "virtual" at the moment.

If you flip the switch that goes to the yard in the furnace room you can now operate it as a beer loop.

Ruphe and Tumbelle

A great plan, Rick; I particularly like that you've avoided the temptation to cram in as much track as possible.  Instead, you left plenty of room for your mountain scenery, plus you have a nice long run from R to T, with good operating/switching possibilities in both locations.  If only I had as much space as you!  What program did you use to draw the plan? -- I've been thinking about getting beyond the pencil and graph paper method myself, and I really like some of the features of your program (shadows on the same side of each building, detailed ground cover, etc.)

Sandy

http://www.sandysacerr.com

Track Plans

Sandy,

I put a link to this thread in the Trackplan Database thread. Interesting stuff here!

It would be great if these plans were cross posted in the general trackplan thread as well.
(some of them already are)

Cheers!

R&T track plan

Thanks for the kind comments guys.

I used CorelDRAW to do up my track plan. there are probably better programs that are actually designed to do track plans but Corel is what I know. All the track buildings etc. were drawn up in CorelDRAW while the ground cover was added with CorelPAINT. I downloaded some textures from CG textures online

http://www.cgtextures.com

and used them to represent the rock, grass and such. I used the clone tool so I could literally paint on grass or ballast or whatever I wanted right onto the drawing. I put this on a layer under the actual drawing so the track and buildings would be on top of the ground. The shadows were drawn in manually, there is no 3D stuff here. I turned the shapes black and made them fade out using the transparency tool.

If anyone has any other questions I can answer them off of this forum as to not clutter it up. (like I'm doing right now!)

On30 option?

I just added an HOn30/HO Standard Gauge trackplan on the trackplan database; perhaps some On30 modelers will find it worthy of a glance.

Acadian Coast Eastern Track Plan

I finally broke down and purchased AnyRail, so I now have a computer generated track plan for my On30 ACE.  FWIW, I have found AnyRail to be very intuitive and easy to use.  I'm hooked!  My layout room is 14'2" x 12'0", and my minimum radius is 22" -- because I had to cheat on my intended 24" minimum in just a couple of places.  The large orange rectangle on the plan is my very simple removable bridge, while the two smaller ones are my staging cassettes, which you can read more about on my seustis13 MRH blog.  You can also visit the railroad at http://www.sandysacerr.com -- and yes, I know I need to find the time to update that site to show my progress in the past four months!

Re: R&T track plan

Bad link buddy. Jose.

CGTextures

this link will work: http://www.cgtextures.com

The problem is the trailing / in the original link.

I could have

figured it myself. Let's see: last time I used my brains I was...... There!. Here they are!. Jose.

Track plan - Diamond & Caldor RY

The Diamond & Caldor was a logging railroad in the Sierras' east of Sacramento, CA from 1924 to 1953.   This is an AutoCAD file with layers.    I am trying to clear space in my garage to start construction.

Scale: On30 with some O

Layout size: 33.5 x 29 feet

Minimum Radius: 20"

I have added a mine & cattle ranches to increase revenue.

Auto run via 2 hidden loops [in gray]

Control system is intended to be Bachmann Dynamis IR units.

Three hatches allow access to all track & structures.

Switch machines are tortoise.

A separate schematic exists for the layout.

The crosses [+] are to window print 11x17 paper.

My On30 Mushroom layout design

I thought I had posted this.

On30 with 34" min radius (staging loop is 24"), turn of the century Hawaii plantation moving pineapples, papaya, sheep and cattle, bagged sugar and molasses, general freight and passenger, what else?

The room is 16' x 24' (outside) above my shop. The end walls are 4' high and the ceiling slopes 7:12 to the middle above the entry door. 

Neil Erickson

Thunder Mesa Mining Co.

Here's the most up to date plan for the TMMC:

 Grid spacing: 12"

• Local: Somewhere in the Great American Southwest
• Era: 1890 - 1910-ish
• Room size: 15.5' x 15.5'
• Track: Peco On30
• Minimum radius: 15"
• Ruling grade: 3%
• Special features: animation, sound, lighting effects, towering red rock scenery
• Status: Under construction (the right hand peninsula is nearly complete)

Edit 10/24/14: Updated plan now includes Verne Niner's San Lorenzo diorama.

Happy to see this subfolder

I am so happy to see this sub-folder for On30. As has been said, our scale is not just a matter of taking an HO plan and widening the space between the tracks. I know, because that was what I began with. Mine is in an 8x12 shed built for the purpose. As soon as I can come up with a way to draw the plan on a computer, I will post it. When I rebuilt it I drew it directly on the foam base after placing the switches where I thought I wanted them.

Thanks for the folder.

Ruphe & Tumbelle

Rick, in what magazine were the articles about your On30 layout?  Thanks

NCOScaler

The articles are in the On30 Annual, starting in 2010 I believe.

Terry Mountain RR (temporary name)

I'm new to this site. These are  couple pics of the On30 one I am starting. It's 4 X 8 with a wing. The base is a bed frame with wheels. I'll be laying 2" foam over the plywood. It will be a tourist RR where people will go up the mountain to see something. I'm thinking it will be a waterfall. A lot of it will be trestles between the top and bottom. I have to build those yet. It's mostly 15" radius curves, too. I've never done a point-to-point layout, only roundy round ones. I have a Heisler, an 0-4-0 Porter, and a 2-6-0. I have a Bachmann trolley that I converted to a tourist car. I might buy a couple of Bachmann's new tourist cars.

10X11 foot room layout

Locale: Northeast Tennessee, just east of Elizabethton

• Era: Summer, 1943
• Room size: 10 X 11
• Track: Micro Engineering On30 (and two curved numver 6 HO Shinohara turnouts)
• Mainline radius: 22-24"
• Ruling grade: 0%
• Status: "initial" construction is complete, scenery complete

Featured in the 2017 On30 Annual and several other magazines.

I am just beginning in On30.

I am just beginning in On30. I noticed that from 1871 to 1889/ 1890ish that Kansas had a 3 foot narrow gauge railroad that ran 169 miles from Leavenworth on Missouri River to Miltonvale in North Central Kansas by 1881. I was wondering in a freelance way would modeling a similar railroad be not that far off for an On30 line set in Kansas. I was gifted a framework cut for the HO scale Jerome and Southwester, but am thinking the cutout for the canyon would make a good spot for a river port scene and I could have that represent a town on either the Kansas/ Kaw River or the Missouri River as the start point or a division point. I would need smaller O Scale buildings to represent small town or minor city scenes rather than huge O scale industrial and business structures I am thinking. I noticed that Woodland Scenics has some that meet this as do some other companies.

More to I am just beginning On30

The railroad I got my idea from is the Kansas Central Railway/ Kansas Central Railroad/ Leavenworth, Kansas and Western. I have currently a Bachmann Coach/ Observation Car and an 2-6-0 Mogul locomotive. I am thinking of running it as a mid 20th Century to late 20th Century line that survived the ups and downs better than the KCR/ LK&W did. I haven't come up with a name yet, but my old HO railroad was a Western set standard gauge called the Lost Creek RR. I am thinking of using Lost Creek and Western. Though there are two streams called lost Creek in Kansas only the one near Lincoln, Kansas has any railroads near it. Those are the current UP and BNSF.

I am thinking of a fictional third Lost Creek where it starts at or near a Kansas River steamboat landing and goes westward from there. To this vein I have seen online from suppliers kits for 50 footer stern wheeler steam boats and some craftsman kits and shells that go on Bachmann chassis that would be good for my roster.

  "I would need smaller O

The neat thing about older smaller buildings is they are perfect for scratch building. One can do a lot with just simple wood,cardstock, or plastic sheet material, saving the cost of building kits or built up models.  For some one just starting out I'd suggest looking into On3 if you want to model a prototype 3 foot gauge line. The cost of laying track is not much difference and there are lots of On3 engines and cars around for those willing to take the time to find them. As you get more experience you might be more comfortable with having the correct gauge for your line. I've found the same thing with O scale, I tell folks to start with P48 if you are not already invested in O gauge, as the years go by the incorrect gauge will be more and more distracting ....DaveB 

On30 in a Small Room

Room is 11' x 12' with 4' x 8' closet.

Freelanced On30 short line set in 1920's Colorado.

Point-to-point operation with continuous loop for constant running rail bus to run interference on lower level.

Hand laid code 70 track.

All locos have S-cab RF control, battery power and sound.

Scratch built structures with sound and animation where appropriate.

Helix inside mountain to access upper level mines and mills

10 stamp mill in closet supplied by mines on upper level.  Processed ore picked up on lower level.

Smelter on lower level based on Durango smelter.

Arduino controls sound and animation for water tank spouts, coaling tower, sand house and ash pit.

Arduino will eventually control stamp mill and smelter

Arduino operation for turntable.

Layout blog (https://slimgauge.blogspot.com/)

Ultra Minimum On30 - Jaxcillest Enterprises

Hi all,

Now that this thread has bobbed back up. You can't go much smaller in On30 than this -

The full story of the build and "operation" of Jaxcilliest Enterprises is at  https://forum.mrhmag.com/post/jaxcilliest-enterprises-the-ultramini-hoist-dump-layout-12207987

Never let it be said that you don't have enough space for On30  

Freelancing a Kansas Narrow Gauge using On30

I got the bug for On30 because I could see the details better than HO or N these days. I noticed that it is correct that one has to take in account the footprint of O Scale Structures rather than just modifying an HO track plan. I thought about looking into a local railroad for inspiration and came across the Kansas Central which was a narrow gauge line that ran from Leavenworth, Kansas to its eventual terminus at Miltonvale a total of 162 miles +/-. It started in 1871 and finished its final construction as a 3 foot narrow gauge in 1888 and was converted to standard gauge from 1889 to 1892 and renamed the Leavenworth, Kansas and Western. As the L,KS&W it went out of final business as a subsiduary of the Union Pacific in the 1930s.