Layout design
Modern HO Scale Indiana Harbor Belt/NS Layout
Hi all, here’s my HO Scale trackplan I’ve recently started building.
It is 10’x12’ with 22” minimum radius curves and based on the Indiana Harbor Belt in Chicago. I’m trying to work out the staging yard/operations to maximize realistic operations as best I can.
WIP -CN Intermodal Yard
Temporarily set the Intermodal scene on my layout -Trenton Subdivision in N Scale and placed much of the elements to ensure that everything will fit and gauge locations for light poles. The lights are non-working as I won’t be operating the layout in the dark. The telephone poles in the foreground will be substituted for lights.
Narrow Gauge Degrees of Curvature
I'm in the design stages of track plans for either an Sn3; or, On30 layout. I plan to lay all track, for whichever scale I decide to go with. The NMRA gives some information on track radius, although the information given is for 4 feet 8 and 1/2 inch standard gauge. NMRA RP-11, in their Track Dimension Table on page three, Gives some Degrees of Curvature for curves for all scales. I'm interested in designing a layout that could be used for either On30; or, Sn3. I think that a 30 inch radius might work for either scale. In O scale a 30 inch ra
Tearing out my old layout.
So, instead of thinking about my old layout and the problems its' age causes, I've decided that because of Covid 19 and the uncertainty this is causing, I'm going to get out my drafting table and see if I can come up with a good layout design for a new Narrow Gauge layout. The only thing I know for certain, is it would be built one module at a time. This would allow easy disassembly when the need arise. Because I have been interested in the Rio Grande Southern for years, this is one possible scenario I might build and another would be a completel
Different configurations of rail yards
Hello. On the picture below you can see different configurations of rail yards. All configurations, except first one, provides sidings of almost the same lengths.
Trackplanning --> Hand Laying : Geometry headspace?
Dear MRHers,
I was musing over some of the recent threads RE Handlaying VS RTR trackwork options,
and that one of the significant benefits of handlaying turnouts was
"the modeller is not limited to fixed, whole-number, or only the frog-angles-commercially-available geometry".
Now, I'm not saying that this isn't true from a raw "what One can build" standpoint,,
but it did send me off down a kinda "chicken and egg" hole, IE:
Transfer Table / Transverser... in N?
I've been considering, for some time now, an engine facility on a T trak module (most likely a double, possibly a triple). Obviously T-Trak modules aren't big enough for a turntable with more than a few tracks, but a transfer table with 8-10 would fit quite nicely. I don't want a just a display piece though - I want it to operate.
Final Maryland Midland Track Plan
One of my chronic complaints are blogs and magazine layout articles that do not show the track plan for the railroad depicted, So I've updated the plan to reflect more of what I am actually building.
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