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quinn222 at 09:50am on 08/07/2007
quinn222 at 09:50am on 08/07/2007The AC in the Train Room (aka: Garage) has been fixed and I've made some progress. I think I've finalized the plan and I've got the elevations worked out.
This post was also made for my Railroad Line friends so there may be some stuff that doesn't make sense to my LJ friends. Just ask if you're interested/confused!
Here on the left is the yard and you can see the wye which enters and leaves it:
Departing the yard to the east and heading by some farmland approaching town. I'm considering putting a non-functioning junction track here heading into where the backdrop curves around:
Inthe original plan this area was the town and the higher track crossed the lower one just to the right of this area. The third track you see joining in is a new passing siding I put in for the passenger station:
Looking west through town. In the foreground is a double crossing which will allow trains to cross over and access the station siding or move out and access the yard and logging area further west:
Looking in the opposite direction, both tracks sweep around a curve heading for the mill town (I have to come up with names for these places!) In the original plan the inner track was increasing elevation here to allow it to pass over the lower, outer track, which no longer happens:
Around the curve and moving into the industrial, mill area of the layout. Wrisley Papers will be in the foreground of this scene:
Heading around the curve heading in the logging area. SW Twin Mills is supposed to be on this corner. I'm having doubts about that. It's a big area but that kit takes a lot of space.:
The logging area. Facing the camera is the spur that will lead to the sawmill, heading the other direction will be a logging scene. I haven't decided on what I'm going to use where the tracks cross. It's supposed to be an eastern railroad but as far as I know trestles aren't common in the east:
Facing the other direction. I'm thinking of putting a tiny station here on the lower elevation:
That's it for now. I'm hoping to get started gluing down the risers tomorrow.
I made reference to two structures in here, Wrisely Papers and the Twin Mills. Here are photos of them (not my versions! I haven't built mine yet):
This post was also made for my Railroad Line friends so there may be some stuff that doesn't make sense to my LJ friends. Just ask if you're interested/confused!
Here on the left is the yard and you can see the wye which enters and leaves it:
Departing the yard to the east and heading by some farmland approaching town. I'm considering putting a non-functioning junction track here heading into where the backdrop curves around:
Inthe original plan this area was the town and the higher track crossed the lower one just to the right of this area. The third track you see joining in is a new passing siding I put in for the passenger station:
Looking west through town. In the foreground is a double crossing which will allow trains to cross over and access the station siding or move out and access the yard and logging area further west:
Looking in the opposite direction, both tracks sweep around a curve heading for the mill town (I have to come up with names for these places!) In the original plan the inner track was increasing elevation here to allow it to pass over the lower, outer track, which no longer happens:
Around the curve and moving into the industrial, mill area of the layout. Wrisley Papers will be in the foreground of this scene:
Heading around the curve heading in the logging area. SW Twin Mills is supposed to be on this corner. I'm having doubts about that. It's a big area but that kit takes a lot of space.:
The logging area. Facing the camera is the spur that will lead to the sawmill, heading the other direction will be a logging scene. I haven't decided on what I'm going to use where the tracks cross. It's supposed to be an eastern railroad but as far as I know trestles aren't common in the east:
Facing the other direction. I'm thinking of putting a tiny station here on the lower elevation:
That's it for now. I'm hoping to get started gluing down the risers tomorrow.
I made reference to two structures in here, Wrisely Papers and the Twin Mills. Here are photos of them (not my versions! I haven't built mine yet):
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Good question! There are three schools of thought on railroad design. Operations, Scenery, and a combination. Operations means the railroad is designed in such a way that you operate it like a real railroad. Trains deliver freight and passengers on set schedules to the various industries etc. on the layout. A lot of these types of layouts have no scenery at all. They host operating sessions where crews operate the trains. Scenery based railroads pretty much exist just to show trains rolling through scenery. The owners don't really care about running trains and they usually just loop around continuously. The third type combines scenery with operating trains. Thats' what this layout will be and how it can hold your interest. It's often very much like a puzzle how you are going to deliver a specific freight car to a specific industry without every actually laying hands on it.
For example, on this layout logs will be delivered to the sawmill. Cut lumber will then be delivered from there to a couple of industries and to the waterfront to be shipped out. Wood pulp will go from the sawmill to the paper factory. Coal will have to be delivered to various industries. The farm will deliver milk to the creamery which will be picked up via milk trains. Etc. etc.
Add in that the locomotives will need to move trains in and out of the yard and will also need to be serviced (watered, sanded, loaded with coal or fuel.
So yeah, just sitting and watching trains go around would be boring. At least I'd find it boring.
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They host operating sessions where crews operate the trains.
This means you hook up with other local train people and they'll come to your train and you'll go to theirs?
It's often very much like a puzzle how you are going to deliver a specific freight car to a specific industry without every actually laying hands on it.
Lost me there. How would you not have to have this be hands-on?
For example, on this layout logs will be delivered to the sawmill. Cut lumber will then be delivered from there to a couple of industries and to the waterfront to be shipped out. Wood pulp will go from the sawmill to the paper factory. Coal will have to be delivered to various industries. The farm will deliver milk to the creamery which will be picked up via milk trains. Etc. etc.
So you buy people, logs, cut lumber, wood pulp, locomotive fuel, whatever, for the various industries/cars and add in and take things away? *goes to google about model trains*
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Right, though mine is designed to be operated by one or two people, six maximum, there are layouts that take as many as 30 people to operate.
How would you not have to have this be hands-on?
You control the trains with a hand held throttle, they are digitally controlled. You need to place the train just so and a magnet hidden under the track will open the couplers to drop cars without you ever touching them.
So you buy people, logs, cut lumber, wood pulp, locomotive fuel, whatever, for the various industries/cars and add in and take things away? *goes to google about model trains*
Well, not real people ;-)
But you have the types of cars and loads that the industries you've placed on your layout will need. I have a paper mill, I'll need wood pulp. Since I have a sawmill I can get it from there. There are several factories that will need coal, I have a cider mill, he'll be receiving apples and shipping out barrels of cider. I have a fishing village. That area will need an icing platform to keep the fish fresh in the 'reefer' (refrigerated cars).
I'm learning a ton doing this but it's fun.
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Thank you for sharing the photo's.
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