Like I said... it's a bit wider and longer, allowing for gentler curves and inclines and not my design, see the post below for the link!
Also I did end up winning the cars on ebay. Got all 24 road numbers for about 60% off!
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Layout Sketch
When I first published the last post the GIF of the layout worked... now it doesn't. So here's a JPEG copy instead:
Like I said... it's a bit wider and longer, allowing for gentler curves and inclines and not my design, see the post below for the link!
Also I did end up winning the cars on ebay. Got all 24 road numbers for about 60% off!
Like I said... it's a bit wider and longer, allowing for gentler curves and inclines and not my design, see the post below for the link!
Also I did end up winning the cars on ebay. Got all 24 road numbers for about 60% off!
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Pictures... Finally
Finally adding some pictures... had a crazy summer and didn't get much done on the layout. All of the track is now down minus a couple of spurs near the upper level where the coal mine is going to go (have to wait for Atlas to make new turnouts... apparently there was an issue with their factory in China)
First is the track plan:
This is a track plan from "Mike's Small Trackplans Page" (used with permission). I encourage you to check his site out if you're thinking about a small N scale layout (http://goo.gl/EToA5). I like them because he doesn't follow the typical "cram as much as you can into a small n scale layout" mentality. We stretched the length and width of the table to be slightly larger than door sized. We're going to put the passenger depot on what's shown as the bottom on the track plan with a connection to the road. As mentioned, main industry is going to be coal.
Did get the extra RDC I mentioned in my last post, haven't found the other SD70MAC however. The year is around 2003, so the two RDCs will be the Hurricane Turn train (http://goo.gl/GeXjq) and the SD70MACs will pull a cruisetour train and leave the GPs to pull the coal/freight trains.
Next up is starting the scenery with the mountains and tunnels first.
First is the track plan:
This is a track plan from "Mike's Small Trackplans Page" (used with permission). I encourage you to check his site out if you're thinking about a small N scale layout (http://goo.gl/EToA5). I like them because he doesn't follow the typical "cram as much as you can into a small n scale layout" mentality. We stretched the length and width of the table to be slightly larger than door sized. We're going to put the passenger depot on what's shown as the bottom on the track plan with a connection to the road. As mentioned, main industry is going to be coal.
Did get the extra RDC I mentioned in my last post, haven't found the other SD70MAC however. The year is around 2003, so the two RDCs will be the Hurricane Turn train (http://goo.gl/GeXjq) and the SD70MACs will pull a cruisetour train and leave the GPs to pull the coal/freight trains.
Next up is starting the scenery with the mountains and tunnels first.
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