Is this your design or did you find it somewhere?

Wolfgang,

First of all I have to compliment you on your layout and the endless opportunity of switching that you have on your layout.

Second I want to thank you for your inspiration. I had just finished laying track on my new HO layout when being inspired by your Westport Terminal I dismantle the HO layout and went back to On30 narrow gauge. Now I am modeling O scale 2 rail standard gauge and On30 narrow gauge.

My new layout is base on one city. It will be all "urban". Tall buildings, warehouses, etc. City life ! The railroad serves the city from the wharf to the city. Both Standard/Narrow gauge has a line on the wharf. The standard has one other terminal in the city and the rest will go to "other cities". The Narrow Gauge is the main railroad in the city and serves all kind of industries within the city. For being O Gauge layout, my layout is very small. It occupies a 12 x 10 bedroom. It is shelf-type (24 inches wide) afround the room and it is point to point. It is split level. The upper level is only 5" higher than the lower level. Also the upper level is only 12" wide. The standard runs on the bottom layer and the narrow runs on both level. The Standard runs on 26" radius. One motor: an SW 8 and the rolling stock are 40 footers and they do just fine.Below is a photo of the wharf, partially finish.

And here you can see both, the standard on the back and the ramp is for the narrow gauge going to the upper level.

Now I see that you are adding another switching section to your layout. Again it seems that you have done your homework. Please keep us up to date on your progress and post more of your videos. The turnouts that you scratchbuilt are sweet.

According to the drawing, the arch is the standard track and the track coming out of the arch are all narrow gauge, correct ? How long will the narrow gauge extend into the standard gauge ?

Is this your design or did you find it somewhere?

Well, this is only one module with three segments. This module will be part of a FREMO layout. I'm still working with the design and the best postion of the turnouts.

The track at the top will be dual gauge track. Turnouts at the left and right are separation turnouts for the narrow gauge part. This track will be code 83.

The other turnouts and track will be code 55. And I want to install a few stub turnouts too. Especially the turnout at the bottom of the drawing will be a stub turnout. This turnout sits just at the module border . With a stub turnout I get more distance for the linkage of my manual device.

I've designed the tracks in such a way that I get segments not too big. You have to handle the pieces. The two crossings are hard at the segment border, less than half an inch! But this is no problem. I've laid turnouts over segment joints already without problems. Here at my Third Street District.

Wolfgang

Great stuff, Wolfgang.  I should also mention I was flipping through MR a couple weeks back and saw a very familiar scene.  That little switcher of yours gets a lot of exposure!