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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by JimRCGMO Nick, your layout looks like should provide some interesting switching for you (not a modified Timesaver, is it?). Good idea about that ‘recycled’ baggage car/shed - I have some of the old MDC/Roundhouse kits that use boxcars/tank cars/etc. to make storage sheds and fueling tanks. Plus with recycled cars, you can do all kinds of weathering, rust, dents, etc. [/quote] Its actually close to what the real deal looks like, except I moved a lot of the spurs around and changed the owning railroad. It got way more complex that I'd have liked, but I didn't want half my space to be a field. I flipped the whole thing over, mirrored it, duplicated it a second time, and then tweaked everything until I liked what I saw. I made sure that all the switchbacks were long enough to hold an SW1000 and a pair of 37' covered hoppers. I didn't have any 37' covered hoppers, so I used my SW1000, a caboose, and a 40' hopper as my unit of measure. [img]http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/n/b/nbc112/prototype.gif[/img] I traced out the facility's tracks and the Buffalo & Pittsburgh line that serves them. I also circled that passenger car in red. [img]http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/n/b/nbc112/asmodeled.gif[/img] Here's my mangled and crazy version of it. I didn't draw it quite perfectly and a lot of the proportions are off. Now it branches off of the Bessmer & Lake Erie/CN Bessemer Division, which is really the AM&LE in my fictional world. The B&P line, which has become the Pittsburgh & NIagara, now just passes by instead of servicing it. This is the only photo that I've ever found online: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=7022 I didn't want to actually duplicate the facility 100%, but rather just capture the feel of it. I could have probably done it as four spurs and come fairly close to being a compressed, but accurate, version. But there was nothing to switching it. I think I might use some of the spurs for other purposes occasionally, instead of only loading limestone into covered hoppers. Having one spur occasionally used to unload plastic pellets or a boxcar full of something for a plant with no rail service might help justify the complexity I gave it so that its not just complicated for the sake of being complicated.
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