Now as Walthers will release the HO version of LAUPT, I would recreate it in HO.
And for that I am looking of a good detailed track plan of this station.
Can someone tell me where I can find a very detailed track plan.(I found one on the internet but it is hardly useable because it is not sharp and not clear)
Where can I find good pictures of the parking front, platform, incoming tracks(throat), PE trolleys terminus at one side oh this station, REA, etc…
This is a modern look that obviously doesn’t show P.E. or or R.E.A. but here is a link to the Google map: http://tinyurl.com/36wq9ka Click on the “satellite” link for a view from the heavens.
There are a couple of good diagrams in the reference book I used called Last of the Great Stations. Let me find where I put the book and I can take photos of the relevant stuff.
Unless you’ve got a whole basement just for LAUPT there’s just no way to model all of it accurately, which is why I settled for selective important segments that distinguish the complex, like the LA River crossing and interchange (which I didn’t have room to fully model either). Today’s station has 12 tracks and related platforms. It originally had 16 with a bunch of REA tracks over the garage. When you add up the half tracks for switching (I didn’t have room to include those either), modeling the complex around the throat to the LA River and it’s related tracks, you could easily fill a large basement. And don’t forget the yards just to the south or the SP/Metrolink Taylor yard to the north depending on your era.
Does this help? It’s the original track plan from the book Last of the Great Stations. This is a diagram from 1937. Below are some links to a larger version of the images.
Thank you for the information and track plans, there are a great help.
I just want to find out how width the track surface is at the end of stubs and what the distance is from the end at Aliso street till the end switches at College street.
My plan is model the station till just after the switches at College street and leading than the 6 tracks to a staging yard with a loop.
After studying the track plan it looks to me that the switches and crossovers at College street are the ones who are directing the trains to the platforms, REA tracks and Post office tracks.
And it looks to me that the 6 tracks between Mission Tower and the swiches at College street where used as some sort of “waiting tracks” or is this a wrong interpretation of these tracks.
It seems that only the post office tracks can be reached from the track on the side of Alhambra Ave.
What was the use of the SP continuity track?
I looked via google to the situation today and where the tracks where of the REA there are some light railway tracks and tracks 11 till 17 and the storage track are removed if I am correct.
