Layout design
Let’s see your fascia!
A WPF recently got sidetracked over fascia design and color. I really found everyone’s design and choices interesting. Please post yours here or ideas for making it more attractive, efficient, useful, etc.
Thanks!
Neil
Animating Limestone Quarry Operations
I've started to build my layout. The layout will contain HO standard gauge, HOn3 timber and coal line and the HOn30 will be the quarry line.
This blog will document the building of animated structures on the quarry line, the timber and coal line.
More in the next post.
Bernd
NOTE: Renamed the subject line to better fit the project.
Cajon Pass Project - Introduction
A Tension Dephasit Railroad Company™ (Ha!) presents the next part of my basement workshop layout - Cajon Pass from CP Walker to Sullivan's Curve.
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Louisville & Indiana
Here is my first post on this group. After much prep work and my weird space I've developed a version of the Louisville & Indiana line that I think will provide some interest. My main criteria is to get a loop of track up and running before the last of my kids leave the nest. I wanted a passenger layout but was not sure I could run the long trains in this space to be interesting.
Serial staging in a helix versus staging yard
I've been giving some thought to the type of staging I plan to use on the "south" end of my layout. My north end staging is a 5 track yard below the lower level of the layout. It works well and is reliable. My "south end" staging will be associated with the helix that will connect the upper and lower decks. I'm of two minds on how to deal with the staging here.
How do you plan sidings and spurs along a grade?
Let's assume a layout being made for operating, with a long section of track on a continouous grade of 2% (an incline, nolix...doesn't matter).
How does one deal with sidings and spurs that need to be placed along that grade that serve various industries when the track is continuously climbing up? What if there's a need for a small yard, or an interchange?
Does one level the grade, add the additional trackwork to accomodate industries on a flat portion, then continue the grade?; or
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