NR5A:is it possible to build a N scale layout on a 2' x 4' board ...
i want it to be mountains, either logging or coal mining. Would like a tressile bridge and a stream under it.
My first "Pine Ridge & North River was a 2' x 4' with that theme. I have no pictures or track plan from it, but I did expand it to a 2' x 8' in 1978 as below. Well, I should not say expanded. I started over from scratch. On a 2' x 4' the grade up to the mine obviously had to be much steeper, the mine smaller (no run around at the mine), and less room for the industries below. The upper bridge over the river had a water fall immediately behind it. The river was fairly far below grade level. Note the radical (for the time) hidden storage area.
The mine had its own switching locomotive that worked the cars through the mine. It would make trips with full cars down to town to put on the interchange track (the long dog leg one toward the center), and pick up empties & supplies for the mine. Through trains and the local that took the hoppers away lived in the hidden yard. At shows, the hidden tracks were accessible from behind so a person could 0-5-0 different trains onto the out most track. That way a spectator would not see the same train circulating over and over.
