Layout design
Choosing the scale for a CCT layout.
Hi All, I got the shops benchwork up last week so now I'm placing cars and shops building on the site (Cherokee lane ,Stockton Ca. if anyone wants to look it up on google earth) to help me decide on the scale to use. I took a few photos of S scale and HO scale equipment along with cardboard mock ups of the shops buildings. I'll post them separately so the page can load faster....DaveB
Writing an article
Well they asked and I guess I will step up. MRH asked for articles on small layouts and I guess my 31.5 square foot switching layout qualifies as that. So I sent a message to MRH and got back an affirmative response. This will give em some incentive to get cracking on the railroad. And besides that, its getting towards summer here in Florida which means it'll be too bloody hot to be outside during the daytime. Directly the opposite of you guys up north where you want to be outside in the summer.
Time for a Change
After 9 years of building my layout with varying degrees of success along with several remakes I have decided to rip it out and deposit it into a rented dumpster. I have made so many mistakes that it is no longer recoverable.
Perfect modern Inglenook (with GP10!)
I ran across this wonderful video of Chicagojoe28’s showing operations on the Chicago Terminal railroad.
This is a modern Inglenook configuration that would provide a lot of operating possibilities in a very small layout space. Since there is a current thread talking about smaller layouts, I thought this would be interesting to discuss on its own thread.
Will any small layout owners please stand up?
Another thread raises the topic, "Do small (i.e. less than room filling, or LTRF) layouts get enough respect?" The OP there felt that the hobby would die unless the magazines gave more coverage to downsizing.
Tour-Induced Lighting Improvements and T8 LED Retrofits
My layout is on a self-guided tour this weekend in conjunction with my NMRA Region's convention ("Rails to the Capital" - MCR). Like most people, an event like this can lead to a flurry of work; in my case that involved rushing some mock-ups of some of the industries in Circleville, the current focus of the layout. One thing, of course, always leads to another; the mockup work, specifically some reasonably precise plan-drawing and foamboard-cutting that requires good light, made the known weak lighting spots very obvious and somewhat problematic. I.e., I need
Rough trackplan, Ideas welcome
I am soon to be adding lots of benchwork. Need to finalize this plan. Here is the rough design. 
Some days, it looks like it might turn into a railroad
The helix is complete:
Track is laid to the end of the second level of the peninsula:
Hawaii Island Railroad
Umauma Railway & Navigation
The Umauma (pronounced Ooma ooma) Railway and Navigation along with the subsidiary, the Umauma Plantation Railway, is a common carrier on Hawaii Island. It draws inspiration from the Oahu Railway & Land Co., the Hawaii Consolidated Railway, Ltd,, Hawaiian Ag, and the many, many Oahu, Maui, Kauai, and Hawaii plantation railroads.
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