New Layout Ideas

Thanks guys.

I have heard glue or hot glue.
But I have not tried it yet.

Bob:
You mean upper left,
inside,
curving around to bottom,
then dividing the board
like a backslash?

Loco1999

 

Loco1999:


Starting at the upper left on the outside, curving around to the bottom and dividing the board between your existing sidings on both sides. Raise it 2-2 1/2 ".


Stay cool and run steam.....

 

Thanks Bob.

I'll try some more options
and get some pink foam.

Loco1999

 

Now I'm thinking just two big industries and not finishing
the right two feet of the board so I can expand the double
mainline in the future.

What do you think?

Loco1999

 

What direction / shape would you expand? Straight to the right or an "L" or?

One of my thoughts for staging tracks is under the layout You could drop a spur off the back and go down / under around the the front where the staging yard could be.

 

It would expand to the right either straight
or straight then "L". I would have to move.

Is that nuts? Like add an expansion every
few years and end up with a big one.

It would have the double mainline.

On the left, an oil refinery and some oil tanks.
Four spurs to hold 16 23,000 tankers.

On the right, a coal loader with 2 tracks
that would hold 8 cars each and expanded
someday to hold 16 cars each.

Also on the right, some short spurs parallel
to the mainlines to serve as engine service.
These could be expanded into a full yard
or an intermodal facility.

Phase 1


Phase 2


Thanks,
Loco1999

 

Loco1999:

As we discussed before you could double your


mainline space now by moving up. Look at all that valuable space above the benchwork.

You can keep your original trackplan you have now and still double your mainline.


Have fun in the planning stages....

Stay cool and run steam.......
.

 

Nuts? no. Makes sence to me.

A large refinery would be quite the show piece. You might want to have the tracks go into various areas of it rather than a all parralle like that. You may want to build the refinery as a "drop in modual"

Have fun.
/you could move here. I have plenty of space.

 

Thanks Guys.

Bob,
I get what you mean,
But I don't see how it could really fit.
My min radius is 13.75" plus easements.
I also don't want to go closer to the board edge.
The 3'x7' seems too tight to loop around and over.
Remember I have some large locos and rolling stock.

Grey,
Ok, not large, but enough spur trackage so it
works when I expand and can run longer trains.





Thanks,
Loco1999