Presentation for investors on NS yard expansion in Belleview, OH

[carl425]

I received this via the N&W Historical Society mailing list.  I thought there might be some interest here.

http://nwhs.org/mailinglist/2015/20150102.bellevue-combined-investor-day-slides.pdf

[tomikawaTT]

Very interesting.  A few major points for model railroad application:

1. So you really want a hump yard.  You could build this one - if you happen to own an unused strip mall!  Just the engine terminal would overload my double garage.
2. Note that the fancy specialwork far exceeds the simple turnouts.  Lots of lap switches and compound ladders.
3. In all that trackwork there is a (one each) reversing connection.  It goes under the crest of the hump.
4. Good closeup views of the retarders.  I've never seen them modeled in detail, even on layouts with hump yards.
5. One side shot of the yard tower - looks easy to model.  Note the Butler building - just plain corrugated steel.  All of the buildings are very plain and utilitarian.  (That bumpout on the crew locker room that makes it look like an old-time station is a weather vestibule.)

Lots of good ideas for the contemporary modeler to cherry-pick - but I doubt that anyone will build it without SERIOUS selective compression!

Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)

[carl425]

I didn't mean to suggest that anybody would actually build it.  The biggest problem isn't the space, it's figuring out how to create "scale gravity".

[chutton01]

carl425

I didn't mean to suggest that anybody would actually build it.  The biggest problem isn't the space, it's figuring out how to create "scale gravity".

What? The presentation itself recommends you model it in N scale: Slide 99: "NGauge – Terminals"