2 track or 1 track for a great northern layout? i am thinking of doing the layout 2 track to 1 track for bridges. the layout is going to be paririe to mountain. 2 sections of paririe and 2 sections of mountains.
robert aldrich
n scale i know and the alco line plus great northern
Gidday Robert, I guess its going to come down to your personal preference, and please do do not take this as a "brush off" but if you're not aware of it, here's a link to a recent similar discussion.
http://cs.trains.com/TRCCS/forums/p/206057/2254078.aspx#2254078
Hope all is resolved to your satisfaction,
Cheers,the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
ok
Are you asking about the merits of single-track vs. double-track for a model railroad, or asking about whether the Great Northern used single-track or double-track for their mainlines?? If the latter, most GN mainlines outside of their iron ore lines between the Mesabi Range in Minnesota and Superior Wisconsin were single tracked, though often with long passing sidings as I recall. Certainly their mountain lines with many bridges and tunnels would have been single-track.
wjstix asking about whether the Great Northern used single-track or double-track for their mainlines?? If the latter, most GN mainlines , though often with long passing sidings as I recall. Certainly their mountain lines with many bridges and tunnels would have been single-track.
asking about whether the Great Northern used single-track or double-track for their mainlines?? If the latter, most GN mainlines , though often with long passing sidings as I recall. Certainly their mountain lines with many bridges and tunnels would have been single-track.
yup i am asking that.
the great northern did have double-track in the mountains with some single-track areas,
One problem of course is many prototype passing sidings are longer than some model railroad mainlines!! I guess it depends on your "givens and druthers"; how important re-creating the prototype is vs. what's best for layout operation. Generally because our model mainlines are very short compared to the real ones, it often works better on a model layout to do double-track. But if you want to do it like GN did, you'd probably want to do a lot of single track.
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Afraid not. The 'mountains' are all in Montana and West, there was no real 'double track' (one direction Eastbound, other Westbound) anywhere in there on GN. What you may have seen photos of are just long sidings.
jrc
true, i am makeing the layout, one track with long sideings. I realy want to stay prototypical, i know that i can do that with my layout because i am doing it modular and right now i have 4, 3 foot long by 1 foot wide sections in the works right now and i will be doing more sections