The setting....Unitrack door layout, loosely focused around the transition era, with a small Midwest farm town theme. Something keeps bugging me about the area I'd planned for the passenger station. I was OK with the layout of things, until I took the plunge and made my little oval completely double track. Now there is no room for a passenger waiting area on the opposite side of the tracks from the station. My lone car storage track is there, with no hope of moving that siding elsewhere...there is nowhere left that a Unitrack #6 will fit. My original logic was that the station's platform would be extended across the first set of tracks, with brick or timbers between the rails (like a grade crossing), and there would be a narrow stretch of platform between the rather widely spaced tracks (1-3/4" center to center). Passengers for trains on the far track would wait on the main station platform, but board trains arriving on the far track from that narrow bit of platform between the tracks. I keep questioning if that is remotely realistic though....it seems to me that would be hazardous territory. How did the real thing handle situations like this back then? How have you folks handled similar situations?
The railroads did what they had to do to serve the public. Virtually everything has been done on the prototypes....while not exactly what you proposed.... Photo thanks to Va. Tech. N&W archives... Dan
Don't know if Zandoz can use it. But I'm concepting a transitional layout with an N&W Class J passenger train and I've wondered what N&W stations of the time looked like. Thanks for posting it!
You're welcome. For more pictures of everything N&W go here: http://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/browse.php?folio_ID=/trans Dan
That picture fits what I was planning on trying to do between the rails, and between the tracks...but in that case there is still a platform on the far side of the tracks from the station.
