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Looking for an Inglenook Type Layout

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Looking for an Inglenook Type Layout
Posted by xdford on Wednesday, August 18, 2021 8:11 AM

HI All,

I think I saw on this forum a Southern Pacific prototype layout set in LA(?) relatively recently consisting of three sidings on one shelf and a Long Yard lead on another in an L shape?  Sorry to be vague but I seem to remember the builder also had a web site?

Can any one point me in the right direction please on this one?

TIA from Australia

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Posted by cuyama on Wednesday, August 18, 2021 12:24 PM

You might be thinking of Lance Mindheim's LA Junction Railway layout. (not SP, owned by the ATSF)

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Posted by riogrande5761 on Wednesday, August 18, 2021 5:25 PM

Inglenook?  Isn't that a wine produced in Napa Valley?

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Posted by xdford on Wednesday, August 18, 2021 5:40 PM

Thanks Cuyama, 

That is yet another one! I do remember the LAJ with your prompt but the one I am thinking of  the reverse of this with longer sidings.  Come to think of it, I think there were SP commuter trains posed on the layout I was thinking of which would suggest Bay Area - silly me of course - only 300 or so miles of difference but from Australia it's only a stone throw of distance!

Cheers and Thanks from Australia

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Posted by cuyama on Wednesday, August 18, 2021 5:45 PM

riogrande5761
Inglenook?  Isn't that a wine produced in Napa Valley?

Since some people may truly be wondering and not just doing schtick:
Inglenook Sidings

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Posted by cuyama on Wednesday, August 18, 2021 5:46 PM

xdford
I think there were SP commuter trains posed on the layout I was thinking of which would suggest Bay Area

Yes, that would be Bay Area Thumbs Up

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Posted by xdford on Thursday, August 19, 2021 7:38 PM

HI All,

I changed my search terms and found the layout I was thinking of  - Joseph Leal'.s Burbank Division ... another similar layout does stick in my mind that had a representation of the SP San Jose line with commuter cars as well.  If anyone can help please as I am building up some small articles for the Australian "Rail Modeller Australia" magazine.

Cuyama, Thanks again for your input and additional explanations - interesting that Joseph's layout and the Burbank Division are almost polar opposites, 

Cheers from Australia

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Posted by NHTX on Thursday, August 19, 2021 7:51 PM

     There is a Southern Pacific themed switching layout featuring commuter trains on Youtube, entitled "Quisling Turn".  I remember something about it in a hobby magazine stating it was in fact a UK layout.  Inglenook sounds British so, maybe they're related.

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Posted by xdford on Friday, August 20, 2021 5:15 AM

Thanks NH,  I will follow that one up but it is not the simplicity that I was looking at for beginners.  That is one nice layout and idea though! 

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Posted by Overmod on Friday, August 20, 2021 10:10 AM

NHTX
a Southern Pacific themed switching layout featuring commuter trains...

Bryan Moore's, featured in the July 2016 issue of a publication that must remain nameless.  Here's an overview of the operation, with music fit for the Relaxing Evening thread:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=17dpVQyIO8M

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Posted by Overmod on Friday, August 20, 2021 10:16 AM

cuyama
Since some people may truly be wondering

... here is another page from that site with some 'prototype' Inglenooks:

http://www.wymann.info/ShuntingPuzzles/Inglenook/inglenook-prototype.html

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Posted by cuyama on Friday, August 20, 2021 2:28 PM

Overmod
Bryan Moore's

Even more recently, Brian Moore's Quisling sectional layout was featured in the January 2020 Model Railroader. Subscribers may find the track plan here:
https://www.trains.com/mrr/how-to/track-plan-database/ho-scale-quisling-calif-1954/

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Posted by riogrande5761 on Friday, August 20, 2021 3:08 PM

Aye!  Brian Moore (a Scot?).  He does nice work.

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Posted by cuyama on Friday, August 20, 2021 4:35 PM

xdford
Come to think of it, I think there were SP commuter trains posed on the layout I was thinking of which would suggest Bay Area

Finally remembered that photo. It's from Brian Moore's article on his Quisling sectional/modular layout in the December 2018 Model Railroader, page 39. It's not really an Inglenook – and 24 feet long – but I think that’s the one you are remembering. From a prototypical standpoint, SP Commuter trains were only in the San Francisco Bay area proper, so they would be out-of-place in Brian’s suggested locale. The caption suggests that the commuter cars belong to another modeler. But it’s fine modeling.

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Posted by NorthBrit on Tuesday, August 24, 2021 6:34 AM

Inglenook layouts are well known here in the U.K.

I have come across this  --  

https://www.carendt.com/micro-layout-design-gallery/inglenook-designs/

 

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