12 x 10 Layout Contest where are the disenfranchised N scalers

[SpaceMouse]

Break out your stencils or software. The game is afoot.

Look in the Layout Forum.

N scale is accepted here.

[SpaceMouse]

I just realized why N scale makes such good "big scenery" layouts.

It's because no matter how close you get to them, it still feels like your seeing them from the inside of a 727.

[GraniteRailroader]

I'm workin on it!

Trying to work something out so that I can have two versions of the same plan. One that doesn't dominate all the space in the room but still has many of the same features and capabilities, and then an around the walls plan with built in storage, a workbench with roll-on / roll-off programming track with it's entry disguised as an engine servicing facility, and a few other little "neat" things. 

[Dave Vollmer]

Eh...  I've been spending all my hobby time working on my M1 and typing to you nice people!

[SpaceMouse]

Eh...  I've been spending all my hobby time working on my M1 and typing to you nice people!

I know you'll come though by the end of the month. I also know you've been cooking up that Redding/Pennsy branch or was it somewhere else along the corridor.

 

[stebbycentral]

It's a work in progress.  Since I've never designed a layout using anything other than paper and pencil, I am forced to learn a new software program (Atlas RTS7) while simultaneously designing my contest layout.  Right now the function for designating the height of the track is driving me nuts.  I can get it to build gradients, but I can't seem to get it to understand that all the track on the upper level is supposed to be at the same height off of the table.  I may end up exporting the plan into a bitmap file and finishing up the scenery part of it in MS Paint.  Still, I have every hope of getting an entry in on time.

[gcri]

I sent mine in earlier this afternoon....

[wm3798]

Well, you've cooked up this little scheme at a time of year when I've got a few other things on my agenda.  With one in elementary, one in middle school, one in high school, and one in college, there's a lot of Christmas concerts to go to...  I'm also working two jobs to pay for it all...

So working out the nooks and crannies of a purely hypothetical layout isn't a real high priority.

You also only started this a couple of days ago.  It takes a little time and thought to plan a layout that isn't a big circle on a piece of plywood.  How about giving us about 30 days before you start badgering.  The creative muses need time to work their craft...

Thanks for including us, now give us some space to work

Lee 

[exPalaceDog]

Eh...  I've been spending all my hobby time working on my M1 and typing to you nice people!

I know you'll come though by the end of the month. I also know you've been cooking up that Redding/Pennsy branch or was it somewhere else along the corridor.

The Old Dog would suggest that Dave look at the Chautauqua (Oill City to Corry) and/or Salamanca (Oil City to Warren) Branches of the Pennsy in NW Pa. The city of Oil City had some very interesting track including a "wye" bridge. A short section of the Northern Division Erie to Philadepha line (Corry to Warren) could be included the form a full oval.

Employee timetables are available at http://kc.pennsyrr.com/docs/ett.php

http://kc.pennsyrr.com/docs/downloads/ett_5504_conemaugh.pdf

http://kc.pennsyrr.com/docs/downloads/ett_5404_northern.pdf

Rolling Stock Info

http://prr.railfan.net/freight/

http://prr.railfan.net/freight/PRRdiagrams.html

http://www.gieslereng.com/Drawings/index.html

Misc Info

http://www.velocity.net/~geshick/prr/prrmain.htm

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/cr/zts-pdv2.html

Have fun

 

 

 

 

 

[Dave Vollmer]

Now Old Dog...  I'm not a one-song wonder.

No, if I get a chance to do a plan, it'll be something completely different.

My current idea is to do the Colorado Midland, circa 1899-1909, from Leadville over Hagermann Pass (I know, I know, the Hagermann high line closed in 1899, but it's way more fun than the Busk-Ivanhoe Tunnel) to Basalt.

Track would be Atlas Code 55 (or Code 40 for the brave).  I'd suggest using the Athearn 2-8-0s (and some bashed 2-6-0s turned into ten-wheelers) plus the Athearn/MDC old-timer freight cars and Overland coaches.

I'd make it around the walls with a peninsula representing the Hagermann Trestle and Hagermann Tunnel on one side, and Hell Gate and the Frying Pan River on the other.  Online industries would include mines/mills at Leadville (maybe with a run-through mine/smelter combo) and the quarry at Peach Blow on the Frying Pan River.  Run-through visible staging and a roundhouse/turntable combo would stradle Basalt/Leadville.

Hmm...

[exPalaceDog]

Now Old Dog...  I'm not a one-song wonder.

MAYBE True, but it is hoped that you found the links useful. The Pennsy in northwest Pennnsylvania could provide some "good" prototype lines.

Have fun