Layout design
Prototype track plan design.
Just wanting to hear peoples thoughts on this:
When designing a new track plan, based on a prototype subdivision.
Do you compression the railroads track plan, or just design key features of that said subdivision to invoke the flavor, setting your trying to model?
Regards Phil
Got lots of work done...
Managed to get all the foam glued down two weeks ago. Beginning of the week managed to get all the elevations cut in and the grade pieces cut out and sanded down. Tried my best to make them as smooth as a change as possible and think I got it pretty good. Had Thursday and Friday off from work managed to get the cork glued down. Did about roughly 3 feet of the layout at a time(was limited to how many tacks I had thought a 100 would be enough was so wrong) and got a few more turnouts built while waiting for the caulk to setup in between.
Walthers HO Sand Tower track centers?
Does anyone have the track centers for the Walthers HO scale sand tower kit? None are given on the kit and I'd like to get some additional track planning done. Thanks.
Charles
SCARM Train Layout Software reached v.0.9.25
I am happy to announce that the new SCARM v. 0.9.25 is ready! It comes with new figures and many new and updated track libraries. See details about it here:
SCARM Train Layout Software v.0.9.25
The new figures are horizontal and vertical cylinders and will allow drawing of objects, structures and rolling stock, like the small engine showed below:
Thunder Mesa Mining Company
Dave Meek is back from his summer vacation and posting his latest updates to the Thunder Mesa Mining Co.
http://thundermesaminingco.blogspot.com
You can learn a lot from Dave's modeling. I wish JoeF would get him to do some articles or appear on TrainMaster TV.
Den
Help: Adding a switch for better business access
I'm attempting to rework a siding to a feed mill. It's based on a real business and the siding is pre-WWII. Everything is now gone. The railroad has fast forwarded to the 1980s on my layout.
At the top of the schematic, the siding eventually rejoins the main.
Flow of cars: A trackmobile pulls cars through the mill heading to the bottom. Then shoves loads towards the top on the load track. This is typically a car at a time.
Arizona & California RR in N Scale
I plan to keep this blog updated with the construction of my N scale layout, protolanced from the Arizona & California Railroad. The layout is housed in a 9-fft x 20-ft finished room in the basement. It will be double decked with the majority of the lower deck being staging, the exception being one siding for meets. All of the action will happen on the upper deck with a classification yard and a branchline. Track will be a mix of Micro Engineering code 40 and 55 with handbuilt switches.
Is CAD (computer aided design) a good thing?
I saw the suggestion that CAD had to be used on another thread. I have some feelings about the use of CAD for layout design, but rather than hijack the other thread I started another.
Condo/Loft Layout: Progress/inaugural run
My continuing blog about building an 'affordable' small switching layout in the living room/dining room/kitchen, ie little real estate for a Model Railroad. ;)
Benchwork is sorted with foam core and cork roadbed, Fascia and everything painted to match and now some of the track work laid. I haven't purchased my DCC system yet, looking at the NCE PowerPro and my first DCC locomotive, the expense being directed to trackwork, mainly turnouts. But I had my first DC run. Here's a few pictures... not the best quality, but pictorial progress in action. :)
Southside Industrial District Acquires Right-of-Way
Negotiations have been completed with the Superintendent of Facilities to acquire new real estate for the Southside Industrial District.
The District took possession of the new space September 1, 2014.
We converted our 2-car garage into a studio and trains get half! Yeah wife! Final footprint is yet to be determined, but somewhere in the neighborhood of 10' x 10'. Current module pictured is 28" x 88".
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