It's been a while since I created a post here, but I've been busy building a switching module that can double as a small interchange when used in larger modular layout.

It's been a while since the last update and I actually got to build something. However, my building efforts didn't quite follow my original plans.

After getting my feet wet regarding turnout construction I decided to revisit my previous plans for a switching module. I checked back on the comments on that plan and decided to ditch the interchange track and focus on the actual injection molding plant instead.

Over the past few weeks I tried my hand in scratch building turnouts. After watching a couple of videos and reading articles on hand laid track I decided that it all looked like I could do that too.

Maybe I'm over thinking this relatively simple track plan for a switching module, but I'll put this up for discussion anyway:

Based on my fondness of a) covered hoppers and b) modern box cars I planned this module as a ca. 1980 injection molding facility. Previous incarnations of this plan had separate tracks for the platics pellets hoppers and the box cars. Those incarnations also ate way more space than I actually have available so I decided to keep things simple and have everything on one spur track.

After a couple of years of on and off planning to build some modules I finally started to build my first module. Since I have not built anything in the last couple of years this is basically an attempt at a chainsaw module.