The river adds a touch of scenic interest, so I would keep it.
this is what I will probably be building:
red: mainline
orange: A/D track
Yellow: yard
dark blue: engine storage
Pink: caboose storage
light blue: industry tracks.
Purple: interchange and eventual storage yard.
back & right sides will be against the wall
I remember you posting that one Madog. You still kept the river the same though. Personally I never liked how the river just ended into a wall when in this configuration. The ‘L’ and ‘F’ layout configurations handled this better. I suppose one could model a large [brick or stone] culvert with the city built on top of it, I have seen that before but not with a building also there. I gravitate towards plausible more so than prototypical now.
I had stepped away from the hobby for a while, but seeing MR’s new annual layout has peaked my interest again. I want to get the January issue and read the article first before I make a final decision though. I know share a house… or rather some friends now share their house with wife and myself and I finally have some room build a small layout. We have a HCD that I maybe can use if it’s the right size, and after cleaning out a back room there was a set of 18 inch folding closet hollow cores that maybe could be used as removable sections.
Either way we have a local ‘rehab’ store that is supplied by Habbitat For Humanity, so I know I can get lumber and such materials for fair prices.
Since you’re buy lading on a door in N Scale, you should at least consider the new MR series that just started about building just such a railroad.
Darn spell check! Of course that should have been “building on a door” not “buy lading.” What does “buy lading” even mean?
I have looked into the project door layout. It’s nice track plan, but a little too close to ‘ordinary oval’ to really appeal to me. I’ll be watching/reading for any insights though.
Here’s my primary plan right at the moment:
red: mainline.
Yellow: yard
Pink: caboose track
Purple: runaround and passenger station
Blue: Industry sidings
Orange: KATO Unitrack viaduct on piers as a curved bridge.
I plan to use this HO scale barge as the car float:
I’ll just barely hold the track on it – which is rather prototypical.
It’s hardly on ordinary oval with it’s staging at the back AND a branchline leading out of town!
Its still 4 left turns and keep the hammer down for the mainline [:D]
I like more meandering mainlines
you track plan is an oval squished a little in the middle. Just saying.
and that makes a lot of difference