Dream and design
Random Thoughts on Layout Design
Seeking feedback on an idea that has been floating in my head for a while.
Many of our layouts include hidden track that takes considerable time (and expense) to navigate, whether to or from staging, scenes, or helix, and my patience runs thin. The engine speeds up and sounds like NASCAR when approaching the porthole to the visible portion of the layout.
Model Train Layout Software SCARM v. 0.9.37
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Feedback on Track design - operational prototype/freelance
Hi all
I have been drawing so many plans lately that I'm starting to go round in circles (no pun intended)
So looking for a bit of feedback on the below designs, N scale, Montana modern era, was very prototypical in version 1 but now its a lot more freelance
Industries will be: Coal, Fuel/oil, grain, Timber,sugar beets, and maybe a bit of produce and maybe others.
tell me what you think or would change
The bottom one has slot track but that is just road.
V8:
A simple manual turntable Part 2. How and who operated it?
The turntable works flawlessly and this post will be about detailing the pit and bridge, and the lessons learned.
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Surfline Concept Layout & Questions (Freight Ops & planning)
Hi all,
Long post warning. Having read several books / topics / pages on the topic i am a bit stuck so your help will be much appreciated (as always). Trying to do plausible things in a mix of Prototype with some freelance, possibly along the lines of Joe (Fugate) where he did mention Prototype with capital P and freelance with small f (if i understood the concept correctly).
7m x 4m Layout Plan - Multi Deck - Logging Mining and branchline ops
Thought i might share another layout plan i have been working on (one of many)
New Track plan - thoughts?
http://hostthenpost.org/uploads/839c0a7e4660e29e3b04c71efec30621.jpg
(Link to trackplan, it was too big when I put it as an image)
New Track plan - thoughts?
http://hostthenpost.org/uploads/839c0a7e4660e29e3b04c71efec30621.jpg
(Link to trackplan, it was too big when I put it as an image)
North San Diego ATSF (training) Layout
Hi all,
I finally cleaned up the trackplan for my current (temporary) layout so its time for the corresponding layout topic.
It is a folded dog-bone design with stacked loops on one end. Both loops are hidden and represent points A and B (North and South, or East and West in order to be more precise). My railroad is the ATSF and the location is somewhere north of San Diego, in the mid to late 1960s.
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