Thoughts on N Track Plan?

dak94dav Oct 24, 2018

  1. dak94dav

    dak94dav TrainBoard Member

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    D01D79F1-D176-4352-8478-A743C7136632.jpeg Just wanted to see what you guys thought of this track plan that was featured in MR a few years ago.

    If I stick with what I’ve been toying with lately, it would be for a protolanced version of BN’s Colorado & Southern/Fort Worth & Denver modeled as an independent system.

    The setting would be the 1980s. I’d like the “Junction City” side to represent the Texas panhandle where there’s plenty of agriculture. I’d probably replace the “Prairie View” area with just a passing siding and have it look like the remote and scenic northeast corner of New Mexico where the C&S approaches the Colorado state line.
     
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  2. bremner

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    Looks like a lot of work, but fun
     
  3. NScaleKen

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    I would prefer the yard under the layout to add diorama industry and landscape space. unmodeled yard does not need a huge amount of headroom so helix is short. Would go for a peninsula with double sided backdrop to helix in round end allowing 3 peninsula extensions and more walk around space. but I live in a tiny apartment and think of floorspace as a precious commodity. If your in a big house with areas to expand it might not be a concern at all to have a one level of benchwork layout.
     
  4. Point353

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    How many people will you usually have operating the layout?
    If it's just yourself and you're in the staging "pit", how do you see what's happening on the outside of the layout - and vice versa?
     
  5. dak94dav

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    Operating will be solely me as I don’t know of any other model railroaders in my area. The accompanying article mentioned placing a mirror above the backdrop on the back wall against the layout.
     
  6. bremner

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    huge layout for a lone wolf
     
  7. NScaleKen

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    I am doing hidden industries using cheap wifi 'nanny cams' as security camera views a dispatcher might have, its a modern layout so it makes sense. I have my 'omaha dispatch' workstation that controls my UP coast division, SB subdivision, as in real life its a dispatcher far away with modern methods of remotely observing areas. I dont know if UP does that, but Caltrans in charge of transportation in California has tons of cameras they use to monitor things. One of my industries will be totally within a hillside, on camera look like its in open space with clever painting and detailing, sky image skewed with perspective tools in photoshop to look good in the camera view and weird from any other angle since it will be a long ceiling with images stretched to look correct at an acute angle.
     
  8. dak94dav

    dak94dav TrainBoard Member

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    That’s a really cool idea!
     
  9. astrotrain

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    I would rather use the space better' And having to go under the layout if the Prairie View is against a wall would be no way. Also to busy IMHO. I would cut out the Southern staging area and put Junction city their it would Be a larger loop then' pretty much a around the room layout with a lift out some where. Plus the main staging loop is just to much. Looks like a Nascar Oval.
     

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