Garage plan 1
Okay, here's the first, (and by no means the last) plan for my garage space.
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You'll notice the timesaver is not drawn, but the connection in the lower left corner just off the wye is mentioned.
Scale is HO, Standard Gauge, 1"=1', (4 squares = 1"). There is a double sided backdrop running down the peninsula, with staging along the garage door. The scenicked portion of the layout ends as the backdrop ends, in the upper right corner of the drawing. All mainline curves 20" radius, with 18" radius on the wye.
Trains come out of staging toward the turntable. Engines are cut off, turned and run around the train, if need be. Then the train enters the scenicked portion of the layout down the mountainous area over the creek twice and eventually into the tunnel. Emerging on the other side it enters the town of Murdock's Landing, where the engine is watered, turned and the train returns the way it came.
Included in the town is a timber gantry (an SS Ltd model under construction for quite some time now) and other small buildings. Also of interest is the warehouse on pilings over the water on the tail of the wye. The road through town is dirt, and ends up out on the timesaver portion at a coal dealer.
Trains would be freight, primarily, with flats, gons and other open cars destined for unloading to ships/barges for a trip downriver along with coal and oil for the coal dealer and fuel supply for the river tugs (all located on the timesaver) as well as shipments of other various goods for the transfer gantry and warehouse.
A passenger/mail run would also appear, particularly troublesome if the freight has not finished its duties. A small enginehouse, also under construction, could replace the gantry and provide a home for the MDC critter or Mantua Shifter to work the landing, so freights would simply drop off and pick up without actually working any of the industries in that scenario.
I'm not too thrilled with this plan, since it is just a branchline point-to-point run, but it is interesting and since nobody else has shared I decided you must all be waiting to see what I come up with. I'd still like to incorporate continous running for longer 'mainline' trains, but that may just be impossible without a high degree of scenic compromise.
More plans to follow in the days ahead. Hopefully some will be yours.
Galen
Okay, here's the first, (and by no means the last) plan for my garage space.
View attachment 31100
You'll notice the timesaver is not drawn, but the connection in the lower left corner just off the wye is mentioned.
Scale is HO, Standard Gauge, 1"=1', (4 squares = 1"). There is a double sided backdrop running down the peninsula, with staging along the garage door. The scenicked portion of the layout ends as the backdrop ends, in the upper right corner of the drawing. All mainline curves 20" radius, with 18" radius on the wye.
Trains come out of staging toward the turntable. Engines are cut off, turned and run around the train, if need be. Then the train enters the scenicked portion of the layout down the mountainous area over the creek twice and eventually into the tunnel. Emerging on the other side it enters the town of Murdock's Landing, where the engine is watered, turned and the train returns the way it came.
Included in the town is a timber gantry (an SS Ltd model under construction for quite some time now) and other small buildings. Also of interest is the warehouse on pilings over the water on the tail of the wye. The road through town is dirt, and ends up out on the timesaver portion at a coal dealer.
Trains would be freight, primarily, with flats, gons and other open cars destined for unloading to ships/barges for a trip downriver along with coal and oil for the coal dealer and fuel supply for the river tugs (all located on the timesaver) as well as shipments of other various goods for the transfer gantry and warehouse.
A passenger/mail run would also appear, particularly troublesome if the freight has not finished its duties. A small enginehouse, also under construction, could replace the gantry and provide a home for the MDC critter or Mantua Shifter to work the landing, so freights would simply drop off and pick up without actually working any of the industries in that scenario.
I'm not too thrilled with this plan, since it is just a branchline point-to-point run, but it is interesting and since nobody else has shared I decided you must all be waiting to see what I come up with. I'd still like to incorporate continous running for longer 'mainline' trains, but that may just be impossible without a high degree of scenic compromise.
More plans to follow in the days ahead. Hopefully some will be yours.
Galen