Revised layout plan

railnut49 Oct 27, 2017

  1. railnut49

    railnut49 TrainBoard Member

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    I moved the staging tracks, red under the mountain beside the main line, black track. A lift out section will allow access to the staging and main line tracks. This opens up the center of the plan for housing and more sawmill stuff.
    So, what do you All think of my change? 1509127623501142845708.jpg
     
  2. Jeepy84

    Jeepy84 TrainBoard Member

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    My work computer is compiling data again, so here ya are.

    Biggest concern, was your storage track mountain. Unless you were going to be logging in a canyon, your log landing tracks needed more elevation. You could in theory with my plan make a removable fascia where the mountain is to access your storage. Get that thing up there nice and high, so you don't have to remove it, just reach under it. The logging line could be down in a valley from the edge/ridge, as they often were following a headwater stream. The landing also would pretty much never be parallel tracked, but depending upon operation procedure, the engine may have to run around the cars. On the steeper jobs however, it was usually prudent to have the engine facing uphill, and below the cars so that it could always push instead of be drug down the hill. This also kept the crownsheet covered with water. If you decide that's the way you want to operate, make two single stub spurs go off in different directions to two separate landings (double the mill input!), and lose the runaround track. In N scale, you may find shoving log cars up there to be problematic however, so test before totally eliminating that runaround.

    The brown line from end to end is a backdrop divider. It lets you visually separate the two scenes. So many advantages can be had with a backdrop, even if it is centrally located. You can move it up or down if you need more room for the landing or the mill scene.

    The added green is a kind of ambiguous trees/elevated terrain, anything to block views of the separate scenes and where the tracks move between those scenes (through tunnel-less backdrop portals), except where the logging branch is climbing the mountain, that will have to be elevating terrain. In the lower left, you could have a lower elevation outside the mainline track with some majestic rock face/slide, a lake, pretty much anything really. Or another mountain, that's up to you.

    I also reduced your log pond stream, you don't want a river flooding or draining it. railnut plan revision.jpg
     

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