CHAController Hello- You can view a few photos of my layout of Chicago via this post. The footprint is pretty close to 6x8ft. The length is a little more than 8ft but not by much, I think it scales out to 9ft. In N scale, you can pack a lot of stuff in a small space. Good luck. http://cs.trains.com/TRCCS/forums/t/195416.aspx
Hello-
You can view a few photos of my layout of Chicago via this post. The footprint is pretty close to 6x8ft. The length is a little more than 8ft but not by much, I think it scales out to 9ft. In N scale, you can pack a lot of stuff in a small space. Good luck.
http://cs.trains.com/TRCCS/forums/t/195416.aspx
Here is the direct link.
CHA, I have said it before, and I will say it again. Those are great photos of the Blue Island interlocks and bridges. Does your layout have all five of the bridges at Blue Island?
Rich
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That's easy.
Anything LEAVING Chicago is my favorite part. The only thing about that town is the road out :)
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CP guy in TX That's easy. Anything LEAVING Chicago is my favorite part. The only thing about that town is the road out :)
Wow, in that case, stay in Texas!
Rich from Chicago
Yup, LOL! Ex in Chicago
Beach Bill If we're speaking about HO, I recall a magazine article awhile back about the freight line that ran along the north side of the Chicago River to take carloads of paper to the Chicago Tribune building and other places. A decent switching layout could likely be developed out of that line (seems it was C&NW) with lots of opportunity for gritty urban detailing. Bill
If we're speaking about HO, I recall a magazine article awhile back about the freight line that ran along the north side of the Chicago River to take carloads of paper to the Chicago Tribune building and other places. A decent switching layout could likely be developed out of that line (seems it was C&NW) with lots of opportunity for gritty urban detailing.
Bill
Sounds like the Kingsbury Branch. The April '75 issue of MR had an article about the Kingsbury with suggested trackplans in HO and N, IIRC.
This site is devoted to switching in Chicago...
http://chicagoswitching.com/v6/articles/default.asp
Steve S
CP guy in TX Yup, LOL! Ex in Chicago
LOL
Say what
Your ex is back here in Chicago?
richhotrain CP guy in TX: Yup, LOL! Ex in Chicago LOL Say what Your ex is back here in Chicago? Rich
CP guy in TX: Yup, LOL! Ex in Chicago
Did a search for EX in chicago and all i got was ex police officers working for the gangs.
The whole of Sweethome Chicago would easily fit into an area of 48 square feet (1ft6in x 24ft scenic)
Jon
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Jon,
Glad you showed up here on this thread.
Always enjoy seeing you layout.
What part of Chicago are you modeling? Or is it more of a freelance effort?
Thanks Rich
I used Steam Powered Video's Railroad Atlas (Great Lakes West) to find the area in Chicago that had the largest concentration of converging lines and intersections from different railroads. I counted the potential for 28 different railroads within a mile radius of Calumet.
My layout is totally freelance, based on a BRC-run branch/link line, over which any of the other RR companies can travel. Not prototypical, but it means that I can run trains from any RR company that passed near Calumet (Sweethome)
The buildings were freelanced from kits to give a generic feel of 1930s-50s Chicago, with ideas and inspiration culled from old movies (Untouchables, etc.), photos and even cartoons (Dick Tracey) resulting in a layout with the feel of a warehouse district, somewhere in Chicago, without being anywhere in particular. Calumet itself probably looked nothing like anything I've modelled - I've never checked
Calumet is a great choice for a freelance effort when choosing Chicago. As a native Chicagoan, I freelance my layout with a Chicago theme too. It is easy to model a whole bunch of road names because so many railroads came into Chicago. In fact, as you probably know, Calumet is not the only location where multiple railroads converged and intersected.
Given the quality of your layout, no one should dare challenge the look and feel of your layout. Interestingly, the photos you posted remind me a lot of Grand Crossing, a little further north of Calumet.
If you ever decide to add to your Sweet Home Chicago layout, you might consider a background building such as the one that Walthers offers which features a four story apartment buildings. These structures still litter Chicago, and the railroads still run tracks behind these buildings. Classic Chicago. Here is a link to that structure.
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/933-3177
Once again, Jon, my compliments to you and you layout. I always enjoy photos of your work.