Layout design

Video Tutorials for SCARM layout software

Here is something interesting and really useful for SCARM track planning software beginners - a series of video tutorials, created and narrated by Ruud Boer, where he explains how to start and work with the program in easy steps. The first video is available here:

SCARM Video Tutorials – Part 1 – Create a Model Railway Layout

Roundhousecat's picture

N scale coffee table questions

Looking to build one. I've seen a few threads here regarding them, but have a question:

Central California Traction?

 Anyone here interested in the CCT?  I'm thinking about starting an HO layout and the Traction company seems like a good candidate. It connects to both  BNSF and UP ( previously  WP, SP,and ATSF) plus to the Tidewater Southern and the Stockton Terminal and Eastern so has almost  unlimited traffic variety. Until it was cut at Lodi it was a bridge line  from Stockton to Sacramento as well as a local agricultural and industrial serving shortline.  

Programming Track

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To All: Recently I built a scenic element in the form of three bridges over Gateway Yard, to be used as a programming track. Yours, Elvin Howland/E. St Louis Rail Group Layout

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Less Fiction... Big Changes to the BNML trackplan

Having spent a day studying what goes on at the border crossing of Emerson MB & Noyes MN, I had decided I needed to include Noyes on the layout... since that is where the majority of the interchange activity takes place on the BNML, with the Canadian Crew working the US Interchange yard and the US crew never setting foot into Canada. ( you can read about that here )

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Car Cards in Yards

I am planning workspaces for my crews now and I'm wondering how other people do this...

How many card boxes for each yard track do you use?      1?   2?   3?    (incoming, outgoing, hold?)

I'm thinking of including a 4" shelf inset into the facia at my yards for working space. Is this too small? Larger than needed?

How big a working space do you give your operators?
How do you organize the car cards in your yards?

Picture please!

- Bill

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Take a Ride on the Valley Local

Hi guys,  I've been lurking here for a while and just wanted to introduce myself.  My name is Chris and I'm modeling the New Haven Railroad's Connecticut River Valley Line as it was in October, 1947.  I'll be modeling the "Air Line" as well, since it crossed the Valley line at grade in Middletown, CT.

What space to use for a new layout in a new house.

I am at the point to design a new layout in On30.  I'm considering two spaces in the new house.


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