Hi people --
Just wanted to drop by and say "hi" to everyone for my first post here at The Gauge model trains forums.![Wave :wave: :wave:](http://images.yuku.com/image/gif/c5cc0cf5a25b4d648169e7ff9f089cb5.gif)
Quick description of myself : 43 years old, lives in Norway in Europe, had a Märklin layout as a child, but then left the hobby for about 30 years, until I got kids of my own.
The kids have Märklin sectional tracks and paper buildings we set up in our living room occationally:
I am working on a H0 scale around the room shelf switching layout in my little 6 1/2 x 11 1/2 foot storage room/workshop. The layout is inspired by urban scenes from Minneapolis ca 1957 - mainly the Omaha Road's trackage in the Warehouse District, but also a grain elevator scene and a scene loosely based on the municipal barge terminal in Mpls.
No staging - I intend to bring very short trains or short cuts of cars with interchange traffic onto the layout or off the layout using a cassette which can hold an engine and 5 cars. When the casette is empty, it works as a bridge for continuous run.
Here is my layout plan:
Here is a car location diagram showing industry spots on the layout:
A few images showing the current state of the layout:
Left end of warehouse district - leftmost track is mainline/exit from yard, low building straight ahead is freight house. industry/warehouse flats along wall on the right.
Looking right along waregouse district - mini yard of three tracks, more industries/warehouses.
Right side of room, elevator in the background, Hun't baking pwder co (red paper over foamcore building), Williams warehouse (two Pikestuff warehouses spliced end to end).
Cassette/bridge in front of door.
Testing out track alignments for the barge terminal scene using various placeholders:
I have since scratched out a coal barge that hopefully looks a little better than the placeholder tray in the picture above:
Anyways - that is the present state of my layout. It obviously needs a lot more work before it start look anywhere even remotely as good as some of the layouts I have seen in this forum.
But I'm having fun "working on the railroad" and hope to learn more and get more ideas following this forum![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Smile,
Stein
Just wanted to drop by and say "hi" to everyone for my first post here at The Gauge model trains forums.
![Wave :wave: :wave:](http://images.yuku.com/image/gif/c5cc0cf5a25b4d648169e7ff9f089cb5.gif)
Quick description of myself : 43 years old, lives in Norway in Europe, had a Märklin layout as a child, but then left the hobby for about 30 years, until I got kids of my own.
The kids have Märklin sectional tracks and paper buildings we set up in our living room occationally:
I am working on a H0 scale around the room shelf switching layout in my little 6 1/2 x 11 1/2 foot storage room/workshop. The layout is inspired by urban scenes from Minneapolis ca 1957 - mainly the Omaha Road's trackage in the Warehouse District, but also a grain elevator scene and a scene loosely based on the municipal barge terminal in Mpls.
No staging - I intend to bring very short trains or short cuts of cars with interchange traffic onto the layout or off the layout using a cassette which can hold an engine and 5 cars. When the casette is empty, it works as a bridge for continuous run.
Here is my layout plan:
![warehouse40.jpg](http://home.online.no/~steinjr/trains/modelling/forum/warehouse40.jpg)
Here is a car location diagram showing industry spots on the layout:
![warehouse40_clic.jpg](http://home.online.no/~steinjr/trains/modelling/forum/warehouse40_clic.jpg)
A few images showing the current state of the layout:
Left end of warehouse district - leftmost track is mainline/exit from yard, low building straight ahead is freight house. industry/warehouse flats along wall on the right.
![left.jpg](http://home.online.no/~steinjr/trains/modelling/forum/warehouse/left.jpg)
Looking right along waregouse district - mini yard of three tracks, more industries/warehouses.
![yard.jpg](http://home.online.no/~steinjr/trains/modelling/forum/warehouse/yard.jpg)
Right side of room, elevator in the background, Hun't baking pwder co (red paper over foamcore building), Williams warehouse (two Pikestuff warehouses spliced end to end).
![commutator.jpg](http://i404.photobucket.com/albums/pp124/steinjr_1965/commutator.jpg)
Cassette/bridge in front of door.
Testing out track alignments for the barge terminal scene using various placeholders:
![barge.jpg](http://home.online.no/~steinjr/trains/modelling/forum/warehouse/east/barge.jpg)
I have since scratched out a coal barge that hopefully looks a little better than the placeholder tray in the picture above:
![coalbarge.jpg](http://home.online.no/~steinjr/trains/modelling/forum/warehouse/coalbarge.jpg)
Anyways - that is the present state of my layout. It obviously needs a lot more work before it start look anywhere even remotely as good as some of the layouts I have seen in this forum.
But I'm having fun "working on the railroad" and hope to learn more and get more ideas following this forum
Smile,
Stein