Here’s the plan for Slate Creek Industrial Lead.
SC is 12" x 72".
Scale N Scale
Track: Code 55…
Peco Medium Electro-frog Switches
Micro Engineering weathered flex track.
Atlas C55 snap straights as needed.
There will be 2 non rail served industries.
Building flats will be used along backdrop.
Landstar Grains will used.
Walther’s Superior Paper buildings will be used as separate industries…
Larry,
I like ISL’s. My eye suggests having a little variation to the length and spacing of the spurs along the wall. Maybe even make two of the spurs into one single double ended spur, if you’re willing to have the locomotive mid-train (or you could run a separate train to switch the trailing spur). I’ve seen modern industrial districts with double ended spurs. Operationally, it would still be a spur(s) and not a runaround.
I don’t know what the angled line in the SW area is supposed to represent.
And I assume we’re talking removable cassette staging at the left.
Doug
I don’t know what the angled line in the SW area is supposed to represent.
That suppose to represent one of the access roads to the industrie…Bad idea…I should have left it off.
And I assume we’re talking removable cassette staging at the left.
That is a “drop and hook” trailer lot…I wanted to model something you don’t usually see on ISLs.
I been toying with a cassette idea but,have came up with a solid idea yet.
Independent Short Line?
Isolated Short Line?
Isolated Switching Lead?
Indiana Short Line?
Inner Switch Lead?
I know Larry likes to use his personal acronym on the many forums where he is active, but why choose a confusing and ambiguous term that’s not clear to the general public?
Does it really take that long to type out “switching layout”?
By the way, I can think of a number of small switching layouts that __aren’t "__industrial". “ISL” has never really been accurate for a number of real-life locales and model layouts.
I’d suggest avoiding the non-standard inside joke acronyms and sticking with general terms that everyone knows.
But I don’t spend all my time every day on fifteen other forums, so maybe I’m just not one of the “cool kids”.
Byron
I know Larry likes to use his personal acronym on the many forums where he is active, but why choose a confusing and ambiguous term that’s not clear to the general public?
Actually that’s not my personal acronym…I picked it up at a advanced layout design meeting and I liked it.Its also used on a Advance Layout Planing Sig on yahoo.
ISL-Industrial Switching Layout…
I always found ISL-Industrial Switching Layout, to be a good term. It describes my layout perfectly. Thanks Brakie.[:D]
A few years back there was an article in MR about some one doing the SF Argentina yard and industrial area in Oklahoma and it inspired me in what I have done for my N scale layout.
Larry, as we’ve discussed before, I’ve been in the Layout Design SIG for 16 years and I edit their magazine. ISL is not an acronym that the group uses. We don’t use the acronym because it’s ambiguous.
We’ll be focusing on switching and terminal layouts in the Winter 2012 issue of the magazine (Layout Design Journal #45), due out in February.
Switching layouts of any size are neat (but aren’t exclusively all industrial). It seems clearer to me to just call them what they are.
Chuck Hitchcock’s excellent Argentine Industrial District Railway (AIDRY). Kansas City, KS. Model Railroader Magazine, Feb 2007.
Pictures http://www.chuckhitchcockstructures.com/photo_gallery
MR Track plan database (free also for non-subscribers to the magazine this weekend): http://mrr.trains.com/How%20To/Track%20Plan%20Database/2007/08/Argentine%20Industrial%20District%20Ry.aspx
Smile,
Stein
Mmm - 72" is 6 feet, right?
Looking at the plan, I just don’t see that you have room for four trailing industry tracks along 5 feet of the rear (including some gaps between the tracks and a road?), plus an extra industry at the last foot on the left end (gray/green area) - that seemingly makes each industry pretty small, and makes the lead at the far left for getting into the two lowermost industries pretty short?
Quick attempt at sketching your plan (top sketch) in XtrkCad, with 40’ cars added (but I think you wanted this to be modern, so 50’ or 60’ cars would be more appropriate, maybe 89’ for the trailer drop at far left):
Bottom sketch above is an improvisation where I tried fewer industries (but more - and longer - cars at each industry).
Smile,
Stein
Stein,I don’t see a problem-yet.[(-D] I do expect some problems to crop up but,I’m flexable except for the 4 industries along the back drop those are a must since I already have the buildings.
I like your idea but,not the facing point siding-I don’t want one…
Remember we are talking N Scale.
Larry, as we’ve discussed before, I’ve been in the Layout Design SIG for 16 years and I edit their magazine. ISL is not an acronym that the group uses. We don’t use the acronym because it’s ambiguous.
You say switching layout I immediately think what type since there are several types as you know…
So,apparently your group doesn’t use ISL which is no big deal and means very little.
The two groups I’m in uses ISL,PSL,YSL which is three different types of switching layout.
Its a matter of choice.
Of course we are talking N scale. Which is why I for the sketch based on your plan used N scale flex track, Peco code 55 small turnouts and 40-foot boxcars (giving your plan the max benefit of doubt - you can easily use more space, but not a lot less space). For the plan below I used Peco code 55 medium turnouts and 60-foot cars.
Smile,
Stein
Byron,
I don’t use “ISL” myself but I’ve been on the forum long enough to know, as others probably do too, that Larry uses this acronym to describe an industrial switching layout. I was merely being courteous to him by using it when responding to his thread.
I joined one other forum a long time ago but don’t post very much there. I recently signed up for another forum but have yet to post anything there, since I have other things to do. Larry is also a member of the latter forum, as are some other Kalmbach forum members who seem to have the same modeling interests or philosophy as I do, which is why I joined that one. I am not very active in either.