Layout design

1/2 a peninsula

Sun, 2013-02-17 17:10 — Peter Pfotenhauer

The photo is 1/2 of the plan for one of my peninsulas. The track on bottom right to the loop is based on the UP St Maries RR interchange at Plummer Jct. in Idaho.  The old Milwaukee Road and UP lines both run up a short valley towards the loop and wye interchange at Plummer.

 

The opposite side will be a passing siding with junction for the branch coming off, and the track at far right continues around the walls to a town. The grey track at left goes to a sawmill on the left 1/2 of the vertical portion of the central peninsula.

 

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Final Design Complete

Sat, 2013-02-16 15:44 — rblundon

I have been looking over the design and trying to envision both operations and signaling.  I know that some may think that this is getting ahead of myself, but I thought it was important for keeping the wiring as simple as possible.  By going through this exercise, it also showed me that I was over-engineering things from an electrical/occupancy sensing perspective.

Lighting for a rail yard

Sat, 2013-02-16 11:54 — Jimbo 46

I'm attempting to recreate a major rail and locomotive yard and I was trying to fine lighting similar to the lighting I've seen in pictures.  Specifically I'm looking at banks of flood lights on a high pole.  any help would be appreciated.

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Plan A or Plan B?

Thu, 2013-02-14 07:37 — Athlon 

	 



	Hello......



	 



	I've negotiated a corner of real estate in a bedroom for a layout and I'm using Scarm to plan the trackplan.



	 



	I would like to avoid elevation changes for 2 reasons:



	 



	1) My first layout



	2) When I had them in an earlier plan they needed to be 3% or 4% grades to get up and over track because of my 'small' space.



	 






	
  

 
  

          

      

 

  

  

    

 


  

 
  
What to fill in upper dsck with

 
  

      Wed, 2013-02-13 17:07 — kenneth wood
            

       

 
  

    

	what to put at end of line on a multi deck layout going point to point? have a 10" shelf ,16" above main layout. KW


	
  

 
  

          

      

 

  

  

      

  

    

 


  

 
  
4x8 Alternatives

 
  

      Sat, 2013-02-09 12:44 — StephenD
            

       

 
  

    

	I started out building a 4x8 layout using a track layout package, senior twice around, I purchased from Atlas. I was a great learning experience and actually turned out pretty well. I built the table, did the wiring, put down the track, and built a great tunnel. Unfortunately, we moved and the table was too bulky to move with us. Besides, I wanted to use my experience from that table to build a better layout.


	
  

 
  

          

      

 

  

  

    

 


  

 
  
Helix / Storage Tracks

 
  

      Sat, 2013-02-09 12:00 — Carl.Blum
            

       

 
  

    

	Hello:



	Looking at the Columbia Cascade & Western's helix on Page 82 of the current issue I wondered if anyone had ever used a helix to feed a vertical wall shelf of storage tracks? Each turn of the helix could serve a storage track on a shelf. Plus you could see all the cars in each train before your eyes. If you had room for two helixes there would be no backing out of the siding. Since there wouldn't be a yard ladder all the storage track would be the same length. In the photo their helix would serve 7 tracks and only use 4" from the wall.


	
  

 
  

          

      

 

  

  

    

 


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Integrating the Spline Helix into the Staging Level

 
  

      Sat, 2013-02-09 09:46 — jmt99atsf
            

       

 
  

    

	I have been absent for a couple of months so this is what I have been doing since I finished the basic spline helix for my under-construction N-scale layout. 



	First of all, I do not use CAD for drawing the layout.  I use old school sketches and presentation style programs, such as Powerpoint and/or Keynote, to draw the layout's support structure. See the sketch drawing of staging level below.


	
  

 
  

          

      

 

  

  

      

    

  
      
  
  
  
  
  

 																	
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