I had a chance to diagram what I was thinking. Assume you have 3 industries on an industrial track or branch line as in pic 1. What makes the...
Was kicking around an idea that may ultimately be a lesson in futility but a thought came to mind. Do railroads typically place an industry spur...
I would relocate the brewery to the right edge of the layout. I like putting bigger building towards the edges as "appear" to make them bigger by...
I'm not quite sure what you're hung up on. It seems like you have some inspiration for layout design elements with the places you mentioned. If...
The extra sidings in staging are good. I would use it as a yard or interchange - randomly spot your cars on track 1 or 2 (if using 1 as a main)...
http://www.trainboard.com/grapevine/showthread.php?150954-Switching-Layout-Design-Looking-for-Opinions I'm in the room prep stage right now on...
The South Plains District is one of my favorites and inspired my current layout plan. The only bad thing about is the abundance of switchbacks.
I agree with most of the posters here. The only 4x8's that were even remotely interesting to me were MR's Soo Line Red Wing Division and the...
This time of year go check out the Western PA Model Railroad Museaum in Gibsonia - wpmrm.org. You will find plenty of inspiration there and can...
Really like the overall look. I agree on the passing siding. I also like the mountain as a divide. Could it be brought down the middle of the...
The Deere 4020 went from 1963 to 1972 - I believe Ertl made one of those. The Ertl International 706 would be in the 63-66 time frame. The...
Bill I wholeheartedly agree with the second two paragraphs of your post. However, when reading this I got caught on "simple and manageable" in...
I felt like giving this a bump as I've been thinking about it lately and there seems to be a lot of good traffic as of late. Does anyone have an...
Gotcha. I was thinking all switches face the same way.
I'm not sure what you mean by that. Manually placing cars in order to switch industries? Couldn't the same be done with a single drill track?...
SD50's will be your starting point for SD40Es. I suggest taking your trackplan thoughts over to the Layout Design discussion once you're ready to...
J Alex Lang has a simple timetable. http://www.jalexlang.com/radio.html Here is another one I found....
For what your goals are, modeling Altoona may be easier to represent than Harrisburg. Rose yard has flat switching and if you're coming out of...
As a person that lives near and actively rail fans that area, I'd say you're too high on coal drags. It's probably more like 60% intermodal. I...
IC SD70 switching at Wausau On the GE/Alco front you have Minnesota Commercial, Penn Northeastern (55 miles that runs mostly SD40-2's and...
