Toronto Central RR
Can anyone provide any details on this track plan. I bought the back issue of MR but it merely has a sketch rather than the details I need as a returnee to the hobby. There's a nice bill of materials, including the track, but I've no idea how to lay this out on the surface.
I used the SEARCH function, but decided to NOT tag onto the waterfowl/water thread. What I really need is something similar to a blueprint or scale drawing showing the radii and center points.
I'm basing my operations on a very shortline railroad in my area, the Newburg and South Shore RR that was originally a US Steel operation handling the mills in Cleveland with interchanges with 4 or 5 major railroads. The N&SS has less than 4 linear miles of track. This track plan will give me a table edge yard, some "mainline" with passing opportunities, and the ability to let non-N&SS trains run around from time to time.
-- Chuck
which issue was it in ?
ernie
ereimer which issue was it in ?
According to the thread the OP already has found (judged from his comment), July 2003, page 100. Not in the track plan database. Byron Henderson (Cuyama) posted an impoved drawing here:
http://cs.trains.com/trccs/forums/p/127822/1449887.aspx#1449887
Scroll a couple or three posts down for layout drawing - which is clearly labelled - so I am not sure what the OP expects to find beyond what he already has (the July 2003 MR magazine anf Byron's mod of the original plan).
Smile, Stein
ok , found it . thanks stein
so the question is how to transfer a plan from the magazine to the tabletop ?
since this is a fairly simple , flat plan it should be easy to do . this method will apply to any similar track plan including the modified version linked above
get a photocopy enlargement of the track plan . make it at least 4 times the original size
can you see where the light blue marks are on edges of the track plan ? you may need to darken them so they show up in the photocopy . each mark represents one foot
draw a line from each mark to the corresponding mark on the opposite side . you should now have a big grid of one foot squares
now draw lines halfway between each line you now have, this will give you a 6" grid , then draw lines halfway between each of these lines . now you should have a grid based on 3" squares
draw a grid on your tabletop using 3" squares
now it should be easy to transfer the plan from the copy to the tabletop , probably starting with the switches in the yard and working from there
this is one of those occasions where a picture or two could have saved a thousand words (or at least a few dozen!)