Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
QUOTE: Originally posted by tomikawaTT Basic track plan has possibilities, just as it is. Only thing I'd add is a couple of single-ended staging tracks under the mine (I assume) at the top left. (I'm also assuming that you plan to have access all the way around. If not, reaching the turnouts at top center could get to be an adventure.) Actually, there's no reason this layout couldn't be built in HOn30 or HOn3, with some minor adjustment to track spacing. Chuck
QUOTE: Originally posted by dgwinup Phillip, I like that layout! I'm not sure why you feel it is "Old West". Older, perhaps, but I think it would work for any period up to mid-20th century. Having sidings at the top left and bottom right allows for expansion. The only thing I would change on scenery is to add more mountain in the upper left so the track could exit a tunnel directly onto a trestle. I've always thought that would look fantastic! Since you're so good (and FAST) at doing these trackplans, how about doing a couple more that could be built as add-ons to this one? Maybe adding a second trestle next to the original one, forming a wye, like the Keddie Wye. That would be awesome! And since you're already considering that for us, you may as well consider additional modules that could be added to extend the original around the room! I mean, don't stop while you're on a ROLL!! Darrell, surreptitiously trying to get someone to design a layout for me, and quiet...for now
QUOTE: Originally posted by dgwinup I'm not sure why you feel it is "Old West".
QUOTE: Originally posted by CanadianShield Actually the Model Power 4-4-0 is based on an 1872 prototype according to Spookshow. http://www.visi.com/~spookshow/mp440.html Canadian Shield
QUOTE: Originally posted by CraigN About 15 years ago , I built a somewhat similar railroad. No roundhouse or a passing track in the middle, but it also included an oval going around the whole thing that was hidden except in the front. Also, my mining industries went into the middle of the layout instead of the outside. It was a great little railroad that gave me hours of fun.
QUOTE: I really like your variation of it with one exeption: After you leave your yard (traveling right to left) and go under the bridge, your train enters the tunnel and continues under your second loop. When it comes out from under that track, the grade has to be really steep to get up to the bridge. Other than that , the plan looks awesome to me. Craig
QUOTE: Originally posted by ereimer QUOTE: Originally posted by CanadianShield Actually the Model Power 4-4-0 is based on an 1872 prototype according to Spookshow. http://www.visi.com/~spookshow/mp440.html Canadian Shield i'd like to see his source for that information , it doesn't look like any of the locos i've seen pictures of from that time period this http://www.visi.com/~spookshow/jupiter.html looks like a 4-4-0 from the 1870's
QUOTE: edit: back on topic ... really nice layout . it shows restraint in not adding so much track that it's a spaghetti bowl , but has enough track that it shows off the advantages of N over HO nice work , if someone builds it they'll have fun . maybe you should save it for the next time MR has a layout design contest [:)]
QUOTE: Originally posted by Texas Zepher QUOTE: Originally posted by dgwinup I'm not sure why you feel it is "Old West". In fact I think the opposite. It is a really nice layout, but it doesn't say old west to me. Too much stuff I think. Of course I guess I should ask what is considered old west - 1867-1890??? I think most towns simply had a single station for freight/mail/passenger directly on a single track. The "industries" (stock pens, team track, loading dock) were also placed on the main line. Even the loco servicing was done while it sat on the main. I think the town in the lower center would have to represent a major city in the old west. Like Dodge City KS, which was a division point for the Santa Fe. A round house - wow. More likely a one or two stall loco shed, seems more old westi***o me. Then the run around in the center. I think they would run around on the back track and pu***he cars all the way to whatever that industry is. And that makes me think - an industry with two tracks.. I don't know. I don't know many industries in the old west that were efficient enough to produce enough stuff to require to whole sidings to themself. I could be all wet but I think in the old west they ran the straight rail as far as possible cause they couldn't afford all those turnouts way out in the middle of no where. Oh yeah, and then it needs ties with round edges. Whack the tree. slice two sides flat and spike the rail. Sometimes with no balast.....
QUOTE: Originally posted by dgwinup OKAY!! Now we're getting somewhere! I see you added that hidden staging under the mine area and took my suggestion of adding a wye. You put the wye past the mine siding (which is now a through line, I guess).
QUOTE: I was thinking you could put it next to the trestle on the original part of the layout, curving away from the first trestle onto the addition. It could cross just below the mine and connect to the extended mine siding where you have the wye located now.
QUOTE: That's a pretty long extension on the left side. Nice track layout. Where would you go from there? Maybe a shorter extension that could connect to another module similar to the first or second module? This is really looking like a layout that should be built! More! More! We're still not satisfied!
QUOTE: (I am SOOOOOO envious! I can't get a single trackplan to work out on ANY of the CAD software! Must be my klutzy-ness!)
QUOTE: Originally posted by ukguy hmmmm nice looking layout,,,,it makes my mind wander into the switching scales pondering mode I keep finding myself in.
QUOTE: One sugestion, after the train has 'stretched its legs' along the creek and reached its destination , I see a runaround in the middle of the section to get the loco back to the front of the train for the return journy, but maybe a small oldtime wooden turntable could appear at the end of one of those spurs to turn the loco around , I envisage something similar to the one to be seen on Bob Grech's layout. Or maybe I'm way off base.
QUOTE: Originally posted by CraigN This one looks really nice too. Here's a suggestion for those that might want some continuous running: At the bottom right of your layout, you could have the track that goes into the building , continue on to a hidden track that comes out in the upper left section. Then just put your building on one of the other tracks. Then when operating the railroad, don't use the hidden track at all. Just a thought. Craig