Layout design
Bye Bye to the Northern California Consolidated
Well, this is the beginning of the blog to track my progress of an N-scale endeavor.
Three road names of Western Pacific, Southern Pacific and Santa Fe.
As you can see the pics show the layout as a round the room...the duck under was low enough that my dear wife whacked her head three times in a row in less than a 5 minute time span, no joke. So I, yes I, decided to move it, because it was built to move, to the garage for a while.
ICRR Poydras Street Yard
latest update
Ok, started working from hand sketches this morning and with the room i have available and what i want to acheive, i think im gonna go n scale with this thing. At least for this first preliminary design. Although i have a lot of resevrations with n scale, using it solves a lot of issues i am running into.
ICRR Poydras Street Yard
Ok, things are looking more concrete. I am still in the sketching ideas stage and have nothing really ready to show here yet, but, here is how its looking for the layout.
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Poydras Street Yard and surronding industries
Guys earlier today I had a emergency crop up and got side tracked. Here are some of the amazing photos and maps that I've collected so far for my layout design. I would like to thank Art Houston and Mike Palmeri for all they sent me on the Poydras Street Yard. I hope you enjoy them and if you have questions or maybe some suggestions for me while I'm still doing a preliminary design, please feel free. My goal is to make this layout true, and ill fit as much as I can with the space limitations I'm forced to deal with.
ICRR Poydras Street Yard, Maps, photos
Going to put up a few pieces of information that you other ICRR modelers and fans may find of interest. Id like to thank Art Houston, and Mike Palmeri for contributing the majority of these photos and maps. Truely without their kind assistance, my project would still be just in the dream stage. To all, I'm looking for any information on operations into and out of Poydras St. Yard, and the industries it served. Anyone having maybe old switch lists, or if schedules exist or anything of that nature, id appreciate copies if you wish to share them.
The Dearborn Industrial Track
Made another blog post today about my proto-freelanced modern day Detroit Terminal railroad. Today's topic was the Dearborn Industrial Track.
As always, I'd be happy to hear your thoughts.
Rich
LCRR - Staging Trackplan
The staging area on a model railroad serves many roles. It's primary role is often the topic of conversation between fellow model railroad enthusiasts. The staging area on my model railroad will serve multiple purposes.
Looking for layout comments
I am modeling rail in a Northern Michigan county (Crawford) circa 1890 to 1905. There are four towns: Grayling, the county seat with a population of about 1000, plus Frederic, Lovells and Lewiston (all smaller).
Grayling was a division point for the Michigan Central RR so there is a roundhouse and maintenance facility as well as the freight/ passenger depot. There is also an icing platform and ice house.
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