Okay, my creative juices have stopped flowing. I'm looking at probably adding another industrial area to my proposed trackplan. Of course, I also suck at trackplanning. So, is anyone here up to the challenge?
So, the part between the right blue line for staging and the bottom blue line near the church is where i'm looking for some ideas. I would prefer no switches for industries in the staging area; however, trains can run up it for switching moves. The beginning track to to the passing siding and industrial area is set in stone, but the staging track can be at whatever angle you wish. same for the track by the church, where it comes off the passing siding is not up for grabs, but the line can do whatever. i would not like any switches there either. Here's some of the basic facts:
scale: N
era: 2008
locale: Aiken, South Carolina (sandhills region)
curves: 15 in. radius on main, sidings can go down to 10.
switches: all #5's, please
Track: Atlas code 55
Feal free to add whatever industries you want as long as they are in the Southeast. The passing siding is what I've planned, and I don't want to repeat that on the other area. Any other questions, please feel free to ask. Thank you folks very much for your time!
EDIT: here's the plan w/ the industries spelled out in the passing siding. please ignore the shirt factory and downtown, this is before i decided to remove the shirt factory and add the church where downtown would have been. Also ignore the red line across the back part please.
2nd edit: each block is 1 ft. by 1 ft. the layout will be 18 inches wide. the front of it is where the backs of the chemical plant, lumber dealer, and porpane dealer touch the front. the church's side of the tracks will also be the front. the back of the staging area and empty space that I'm looking for some planning from ya'll for touchs the wall.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Try searching the MR track plan database for module or shelf layouts. Check the track plans and look for industrial track work that looks good to you. You can adjust the length to fit. Check through all scales, not just N scale. After all, you are looking for ideas, not a definite track plan.
Elmer.
The above is my opinion, from an active and experienced Model Railroader in N scale and HO since 1961.
(Modeling Freelance, Eastern US, HO scale, in 1962, with NCE DCC for locomotive control and a stand alone LocoNet for block detection and signals.) http://waynes-trains.com/ at home, and N scale at the Club.
gandydancer19 wrote: Try searching the MR track plan database for module or shelf layouts. Check the track plans and look for industrial track work that looks good to you. You can adjust the length to fit. Check through all scales, not just N scale. After all, you are looking for ideas, not a definite track plan.
Thank you, I'll start doing that.
Joe
Modeling:
Providence & Worcester Railroad
"East Providence Secondary"
HO scale
Here's what I've got. there will be the walthers GEO roberts printing and walthers hardwood furniture co. also an agriculture supply lot, recieving anything from boxcars w/ feed or fertilizer to tank cars of fertilizer to flats with John Deere tractors:
- Harry
HarryHotspur wrote:Aiken is a pretty town with some beautiful old homes. I would be much more inclined to model one of those neighborhoods than a trailer park.
You've been to aiken? I'm gonna chuck the trailer park and go for just a large church.
I was wondering about maybe doing downtown's tracks that run between south boundary and that other road (for those of you who have never been to Aiken, there's a stretch of line that's cut straight through a hill. there are probably around 8 road bridges or so over it (the streets here are split in two, one street for each way, same name), and I might eventually build a module or something foir that if I ever get this layout done, lol (and yes, I know a layout is never "finished").
HarryHotspur wrote:Yes, I've been to Aiken, although it was a number of years ago. The main thing I remember is the beautiful old homes. The Church sounds like a great idea.
I might be able to model the downtown area w/ the passing siding 9bring back the old industries though) and go past that to the fiberglass plant, but stop there. I MIGHT do that (I may be getting a different room than the attic that has long walls).