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I like the lobes, but how does the other end go to staging - it just ends - another level? Also, it blocks entry and it block access to your utilities.
Jim
Modeling BNSF and Milwaukee Road in SW Wisconsin
Sorry about that. I didn't think about the link being to a closed group. I converted the .pdf that I have on this computer to a .jpg and uploaded it to photobucket. This is only the lower level portion of the plan, I'll try to get the upper portion up tomorrow from my other computer. I don't have access to those files here.
Once again, I can't make this link hot, but here it is:
http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/xx256/rseiler308/page0001_zpsac300968.jpg
Hopefully that will at least get you the lower level.
Making the link clickable may not be enough. The Original Poster placed this file in a YahooGroup that is not open to non-members -- and most folks here are likely not members. So they may not be able to see it.
To the OP -- if you would like the largest number of people to see your file, you need to place it on Photobucket or a similar open sharing service, as others have advised. Best of luck.
Thanks! I was hoping somebody might do that.
C&OCheviot I am in the planning phase for a new layout. This is an HO-scale operations-oriented layout based on a prototype. The prototype is the B&O/Chessie and Penn Central lines running from Cincinnati West to Aurora, Indiana in 1974. The two tracks run parallel to the Ohio River, splitting for a bit from North Bend, Ohio to Lawrenceburg, Indiana. There are lots of industries served by rail along the river, and a small yard at Valley Junction a little past mid-way of my run. I am modeling a total of about 26 miles of prototype rail. My current track plan doesn't really show the industry sidings or yard, but I plan to recreate the prototype track arrangements as much as practical. I have made sketches of the tracks using historic aerial photos. Staging tracks are at each end of the layout. Most of the track will be double track, but operated as two single track independent railroads as the prototype was, but I only show one track in the current drawings. I would like to be able to keep a crew of five or six busy for a few hours per session. There were about twelve through freights, six each way, on these lines per day during my era. One daily passenger train still ran through. There were five locals working two distilleries and a grain elevator in Lawrenceburg, another local working out of Valley Junction, and a branch line local ran up to Brookville. I plan to recreate those, but probably only have one local in Lawrenceburg instead of five. The room is a rectangle, 32'x13'6" with a square off the one side 13'x9'. It is currently drawn as a no-lix, but I am still considering a helix in the bottom left corner. I am interested in hearing any thoughts, suggestions, or other input anyone may have. I am unable to make the link to the track plan hot, maybe I don't have enough posts here, but if you copy and paste the following it will take you to the track plan: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ldsig/photos/album/1441323759/pic/325867110/view?picmode=large&mode=tn&order=ordinal&start=1&dir=asc Thanks! Randy
I am in the planning phase for a new layout. This is an HO-scale operations-oriented layout based on a prototype. The prototype is the B&O/Chessie and Penn Central lines running from Cincinnati West to Aurora, Indiana in 1974. The two tracks run parallel to the Ohio River, splitting for a bit from North Bend, Ohio to Lawrenceburg, Indiana. There are lots of industries served by rail along the river, and a small yard at Valley Junction a little past mid-way of my run. I am modeling a total of about 26 miles of prototype rail.
My current track plan doesn't really show the industry sidings or yard, but I plan to recreate the prototype track arrangements as much as practical. I have made sketches of the tracks using historic aerial photos. Staging tracks are at each end of the layout. Most of the track will be double track, but operated as two single track independent railroads as the prototype was, but I only show one track in the current drawings.
I would like to be able to keep a crew of five or six busy for a few hours per session. There were about twelve through freights, six each way, on these lines per day during my era. One daily passenger train still ran through. There were five locals working two distilleries and a grain elevator in Lawrenceburg, another local working out of Valley Junction, and a branch line local ran up to Brookville. I plan to recreate those, but probably only have one local in Lawrenceburg instead of five.
The room is a rectangle, 32'x13'6" with a square off the one side 13'x9'. It is currently drawn as a no-lix, but I am still considering a helix in the bottom left corner.
I am interested in hearing any thoughts, suggestions, or other input anyone may have. I am unable to make the link to the track plan hot, maybe I don't have enough posts here, but if you copy and paste the following it will take you to the track plan:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ldsig/photos/album/1441323759/pic/325867110/view?picmode=large&mode=tn&order=ordinal&start=1&dir=asc
Thanks!
Randy
Made your link clickable for you Randy