Layout design
Theoretical benchwork design store a 10.5"x10' layout in only 7"x20" (wall of text warning still only in brainstorming phase)
Intro thing
After sharing my other benchwork design while brainstorming I have come up with that should, in theory, allow me to store a 10' long layout in a very compact space excluding buildings which would have to be removable and stored elsewhere which is an issue I can accept.
Design Theory
Help with an interchange on my 1930s logging plan
As I often am developing layout concepts more than actually building a layout. My recent plan has stepped away from photo type NP and back into the freelanced logging layout. I am trying to fill a space on the outside of my helix with some form of interchange.
The concept I'm after is a track arrangement that would enable cars to be set out for interchange with a larger Road
Other "outside corner" layouts like Keith Jordan's The Patch?
I'm a mini-layout fan, but Keith Jordan's The Patch is the only small layout I know that solves the problem of taking the whole thing in at a glance.
On Keith's layout, someone switching the yard and freight house can't see the industries because they are around the corner. They could be miles away from each other.
Staging reverse loop for industrial...
I'm wondering if anyone has made a hidden reverse loop to simulate an industrial area?
A crew would switch out their drag in the yard, then head off to the reverse loop, then the next op session, the drag returns to the yard. It would add an entire industrial area to the layout, but wouldn't be modeled.
I'm thinking of doing this on my layout.
Staging Yard Ideas
I’ve been struggling with fitting staging and a return loop in a small area so thought I’d throw this out for everyone’s comments or ideas.
What have you done? What would you do?
imagination stagnation: paper mill or no?
I’m having another round of imagination stagnation!
Years ago I built a small switching layout with the Walthers Superior Paper buildings. Operations were simply runnning cars from a small staging yard to their appropriate spots in the mill. Quite enjoyable!
Operating with Aisle-Side Buildings
Here is a section of my layout plan. It is a reasonably close match to the prototype that I am modeling. As is typical with railroads some customers are on each side of the railroad. That is, some are on the wall side and some are on the aisle side of the tracks. This is a shelf layout with track height 56" above the floor of the room. As you might imagine spotting freight cars along the buildings that are on the aisle side of the tracks can be a problem with seeing and reaching.
What are your thoughts? Do you have this issue with your layout? How do you deal with it.
Building a Proto-Freelance 0 scale switching layout: "Vernon, California"
Hi all,
Let me introduce myself; Ronald, born in the Netherlands Europe, 54, married to Wanda with 2 kids (24 and 27) and 1 granddaughter of 7 who lives with us. I'm a modeller as long as I remember, trains where always part of my life. My father started with Fleischmann H0 which later went to me. I expanded with European stuff like Roco and somewhere end of the nineties the American bug really bite me. '98 I bought my first 2 US Atlas H0 locos and from that point on I was hooked to American trains.
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