I issued a challenge. Could a verion of this Cheseake Harbor Belt scene be shoehorned into a particular loop of track on my proposed new double-deck layout plan?
So here is the CHALLENGE.
How might I best place a small port scene in the loop on the bottom left? Can I fit something like that ‘Chesapeake Harbor Belt’ scene into that area?
There would be a lower loop of track that is just making the 90 degree around the corner to continue on across the bridge at the shed’s entrance.
Then there would be an elevated (4") making a loop around the scene and continuing back down the left side of the layout. That elevated track would cross a bridge,…like the swing bridge does at the entrance to ‘Chesapeake Harbor Belt’ scene. Perhaps this could be a Walthers drawbridge at the entrance to the small port?
This port scene might fill up the loop circle itself, and that funnel shaped area above the loop circle. I’m thinking it could have 2 feeder tracks from the mainline servicing both sides of the port, and these could be relatively steep grade(s) as it will only be switcher/yard type locos working here pulling 1-2 cars max at a time.
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The two track plans mentioned above are much more workable if you think in terms of four-wheel freight cars and 0-6-0 locomotives. HOn30 might work well. Some of the grades will still be seriously limiting factors. Before tackling one of them, I’d try to build a one inch-to-the-foot scale model out of card or foam board to see how they look.
Hi everybody,
Nice to see this topic open in 2010 still offer some interests.
As a news about my module, because of some health troubles the project was a bit delated, but the project remind in my head.
As a good news the project is under way now and it will include a small rotary coal dumper in N scale.
I post a few weeks ago on this forum a topic about the rotary kit underway construction about “an old kit of 45 years ago”
I follow basicaly the “Loleta and Mad River” plan, but use 18" minimum radius, Fastrack #6 turnout and some #8 curved, I flip the track design in the other side; the arriving track with the bridge come from the left and the coal terminal will be on the edge simulating a quay on the river (My Maclauriver); the Port itself will be a small port with a small channel entry which is behind the coal terminal and the rotary, the village on the right; the port is a small fishing port with all the fishing facilities, it will also include a small ferry; most of the buildings will be laser crafstman kit and scratchbuild one.
For info the Nscale ships come from www.artitec.com, Sylvan and an old Frog Shell welder kit which appears time to time on Ebay.
The track go through the village in a curve of 19" and go back to the left, in fact this is a spiral track like a loop fully sceniked.
As work go on I will share pictures; for now just the basic benchwork is done and I’m working on the rotary kit; I hope to finish it before the end 2018 to bring it to a famous Belgian train show.
The link takes me to a display of high-end hardware.