I might try that
Its called Agony Point after a notorious curve on one of my favorite railways, the Darjeeling Himilayn Rwy, heres a nice pic I just found:
Yes, thats a REAL photo!
Have fun with your trains
shoot a grinder with a polishing disk will get that one quick.
the pads are usually 10.00 a box or 3.00 each at home depot
grinders.... .... they might have a sale.
I see why is called agony pt. Now to get a mallet and record it going up.
Track test laying, how about that, the CADD program was right, IT FITS!
Right hand side, Borracho yard, and the lower section of Long Grade
Upper part of Long Grade
The curve at Agony Point
Lower Agony Point at Heckawee, upper level mining sidings
the yard at Heckawee
Looking down Long Grade
Siding at the fiddle yard
Now comes a part I've dreaded, cleaning the track
I've got 3 years of dirty gritty conductive grease to remove, so I can put shiny new conductive grease on the joints, somehow that seams a little contradictory doesnt it ?
A little progress. Got the benchwork expanded:
Left side benchwork, expanded to accomodate the R1 turnaround
Right side benchwork, widened about 12" for the R1 turnaround on this side and for the track on the fiddle yard.
Fiddle yard widened to accomodate 3 tracks.
I second the motion!
SandyR
Tom Trigg
I dropped the threeway in favor of the current redesign of the yard of the righthand side, in this form I do not have any switches beyond my reach.
The left side grade up should be around 3.5% the right hand grade should be closer to 3%, not too bad, even if its steeper, I can double head anything else, or triple head?
Overall the rear wall is 19' - 6", the left side is about 9' and the right side is 10' - 6", all curves are R1.
Vic:
That seems to be a rather sharp grade? What are the overall dimensions? I don't see the three way switch, or was it not used on purpose?
Hi Jack,
The older predestruction version had some restrictions I was never happy with, one of the hazard doing LS indoors. The very short loop being the primary one, I could only run very short trains. When I started rebuilding in the new garage, I tried a point to point, but again I realized I could never really run the large size stuff I had not even my Monster, the AC Price 16 wheeler, even an Annie and 2 boxcars was out of the question functionally. So I pulled it up, sice doing so I have managed to pick up some very large cars (to me) like 3 LGB closed vestibule coaches, so a redseign to accomodate was in hand, Now this latest I can run short mining trains like before plus I can run longer trains and my large engines if I chose to do so. Plus the over and under gives me the opportunity to run double-headers
AKKKKKK!!!
Vic,
You mean you didn't like the layout once you got it all put down? Wow I thought it was just pulled up for the garage reconstruction.
Jack
The head is gray, hands don't work , back is weak, legs give out, eyes are gone, money go's and my wife still love's Me.
Its ALIVE!!
This will be the new home of the building log of my indoor layout, the Borracho Springs RR, a small mining themed line based on several historical lines like the Gilpin Tramway, the Coronada RR, later AKA the Arizona Copper Co RR, with influences from a couple model RRs, like John Allens G&D, Bob Hegges Crooked Mountain Lines, Malcomn Furlow's work, and Joe Crea's Pitkin Tramway.
The Plan:http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/vsmith/GarageStudyTRY%20AGAINx2.pdf
The location is indoors again, like the previous incarnations, in my newly rebuilt garage which unlike the old one, is insulated and plywood sheathed on the interior walls. Almost all the benchwork is already completed for a previous plan which after setting up, I was unhappy with.
So away we go...
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