I have a new plan to add here, but I have no software to reduce its size. Can I email it to someone who can reduce it to web-friendly file size, and post it here? The plan in 7x8', twice around, with hidden staging, walkaround plan. Only the poor staging operator will have to duck under. Even that won't be a problem, as the layout is being built 50" off the floor, and a second layer of foam is being added for additional scenic relief. Minimum radii is 18" on the main, 15" elsewhere. It will feature a timesaver-style switching area, and 3, 7+' passing sidings. Number 6 Peco turnouts, minimum, and Atlas C80 flex. Can anyone help me?
Alan, After getting BURIED by the worst blizzard of the new millenium *sounds bad, eh?* I have just today been back to work, the plan should be in your mailbox soon. I have other ideas for a new plan, but I have to see how much space I have, and what I can do with it before I submit another plan.
Hemi, someone posted here some time ago about a freeware software that lets you convert sizes and filetypes of images, but I cant remember it's name. I think it was infraview or irfanview, or something like that. Maybe someone else remembers what it is called and can post a reply.
Hemi- What happened to the layout you had before moving? Did you store it? Or dismantle it? Boxcab E50
Pray59, I'll try that sometime. Thanks! As for the old layout, it won't fit in the space I'll have in my new place, and yes, it's disassembled in sections like I built it to be able to do! It's in storage now, awaiting resurrection in my new base house, when I get the 'call'.
I got my 'call', and will move into a new place April 24. I am so psyched! I also saw a video, Steven's Pass on BNSF. It was the most awesome vid I have seen in a long time. Which brings me to the reason for this post: The original layout plan is too small, and won't fit the room I have been granted by the 'Bureau of Land Management'. I have a new plan brewing, around 3 walls of a room, with loops at each end, folded dogbone style. The plan is now to model Steven's Pass, and include Berne, Skykomish, Scenic, and a few other places of interest. I also will model the east and west portals of Cascade Tunnel. The only large on-line industry is a woodchip plant, that I know of, and I plan on modeling it, to add interesting ops. The plan is small, as my room space is only 11x11 feet, and a closet for staging. I'll post a plan soon, but right now I am just finializing the benchwork plan, using much of the original layout I have, with a few modifications. I will also model it with the proto grades, 2.2% in some places, which will be just dandy!
Cool! Although farther away now, I'm a native of western Washington. (About 25 miles straight southwest from Skykomish.) Although a Milw and NP fan, I always enjoy seeing what people do with models of the old home area. Boxcab E50
Boxcab, Have you any nice pics of the bridges and tunnels or other scenery on the Steven's Pass line? Any pics would be helpful.
I took only a very small hand full of slides. A few of SP4449 in 1989(?) at Monroe on a dark, drizzly day. A a few more at Skykomish. Seemed to spend most of my time along that Pass just to the south. But I have no way to scan these. Yet...... I might have a condensed track profile for Everett-Wenatchee. Somewhere..... It would date to about 1985. Haven't seen it for a few years. So don't know exactly where to look. Boxcab E50 [ 01. April 2003, 03:27: Message edited by: BoxcabE50 ]
I have a big BN book, BN thru the Pacific Northwest, which has some stuff in it, but it is packed away in storage! I used the track plan decribed in the video I watched to make a general plan. It needs some stuff, but I dunno what it needs. Ideas?
The profiles I have, somewhere, were given to me years ago by a BN dispatcher friend. These were used by the dispatchers, operating departments, engineering department for m-o-w planning, etc. Should show all the sidings, grades, bridges, etc., etc. My problem is similar to yours. Stored away. We moved into a new basement, with attached house a few years ago. And while the RR area is slowly being finished, much remains in those anonymous boxes that I thought would be unpacked long ago..... I think I know where they *might* be.... They'd date about 1984-85 if I recall. Boxcab E50
I modified the plan mainly in the yard, but it needs more industries, even tho the proto line only had 2 sawmills in between Wenatchee and Skykomish. What do you folks think? Any problems you see?
I want an engine service area/helper station. Where should I add it to the plan? Ideas? I hate to beg, but I need some critique on my plan, cuz I'm sure I am missing something that will be a problem in the plan later!
New plan, round 3. Ding! Ok, Simplicity won out over a nice around the walls plan. This one is 7.5'x4'. twice around, min turnout #6, min rad 18". Any comments?? [edit:] I forgot the plan... it is shown below. Admin, please delete this post. [ 11. May 2003, 00:43: Message edited by: HemiAdda2d ]
New plan, round 3. Ding! Ok, Simplicity won out over a nice around the walls plan. This one is 7.5'x4'. twice around, min turnout #6, min rad 18". Any comments??
I hope that negotiations for future real estate haven't broken down? Are you going to be at your present duty station a short time, and then need to move again? Boxcab E50
Hey Jerry,while I like the new Plan ok i think you will lose some of the ability to capture the grandeur of the mountain tunnels and portray a sense of vast distance that the GN's cascade division needs to be pulled off decently.I think i would renegotiate for more real estate and go back to your original around the walls layout.You may be able to move the yard out into the room and give up the closet area but i wouldnt unless push came to shove.
