I am starting a new layout. Here is the space I have for the track plan. I could add a cassette to the marked places.
If anyone has a suggestion for a track plan it would be appreciated. I can’t seem to come up with any thing.
What scale/guage, era, are you thinking about ? If there are hobby shops close by, see if any have back issues of Model Railroad plannig. Or look up plans in the track plan data base on Model Railroders web site. Joe
I forgot to say that it is HO and I have a GP38-2.
Two thougts come quickly to mind, at least to provide ideas to start the brain a’churning. First one is the Galveston Wharves from May 83 MR. The basic plan is 2x8 to it fits in your space and there are a couple of options for the cassettes you mention. Another is the Third Street Industrial District in the Nov 85 issue. This one is intriguing because it has a branch coming off about where one of your cassetters would be. Not saying these are the be all and end all for your space, just to start the juices flowing.
hi,
for those unfamiliar with older plans:\
Both do need a cassette as drawn above. The Galveston was part of a larger plan, so the cassette would be no longer needed if other parts were built too.
The Third Street District is built slightly larger by Wolfgang Dudler, as part of his way larger Westport Terminal RR. He passed away just a few days ago. his wonderful weblog is still working; it is very worth a visit.
and an awesome disign by Ulrich, adaptions by me:
Paul
Could you draw the entire room and show how the area you want to use for the layout is placed in the room?
It it against walls at the left, bottom and right, and open towards the room at the top?
Why the one foot deep protuberances at left and right? What do you mean by “could add a cassette to the marked places” . Cassettes going off the top of the drawing?
Understanding the space and how it fits into the room would be a good start.
Also - what do you want to model? Prairie town in the 1940s? Miami Warehouses these days? Waterfront switching in Brooklyn? A logging railroad? Interurban passenger terminal? Narrow gauge railroad hauling ore? Something else entirely?
Sorry - you did mention a GP38-2 - that limits it a bit. Sometime after 1972, then. About 1800 built, for a wide variety of railroads, and some are still in use here and there. Still - Uncle Pete, Long Island Railroad, Providence and Worcester, a coal fired power station in Indiana or what?
Smile,
Stein
I’m sorry about not being very clear. Here is the room.
The one foot indentation is so I can reach the back. The cassettes would go of the top.
I’m not sure. I can’t decide. My last layout was everything.
Hmmmm - tough room for a shelf layout. A not so deep layout over the bed will be clumsy to access due to the width of the bed, a deep layout over the bed will make the bed somewhat claustrophobic and it still will be hard to access the part closest to the wall.
What are those two doors along the top - closets for clothes? Could one or both doors be temporarily blocked by removable layout sections while running trains, so you e.g could build a fairly narrow L-shaped layout along the left and top wall ?
Smile,
Stein
The one door is for a closet and the other is a bathroom. I think they could be temporarily blocked. I guess I could build it there. I think I would like an industrial layout. I’m going to make a mock up but I don’t think it will be too bad to have a 2 ft. layout over the bed.
IF you could get around three sides of the bed, it would not be so bad to a high layout like the top bunk of a bunk bed. This might be possible in nyour room if the bed were turned with the head between the two doors where the desk is located. Then, if your plan nis all drawn to scale, the desk might fit on the wall where the dresser is shown, and the dresser in the corner at lower right.
The overbed layout would then have an approximately 2 feet reach from each side.
Nlot that I’m trying to tell you how to run your life or your room. Just trying to suggest being open to a different way of looking at situation.
I guess I could do that, but the bed is 7 1/2 ft. and the room is 8 ft. wide. I do not want to crawl across the bed to go to the closet. I would prefer to let the furniture as is.
I tested the 2 ft. above the bed and it is fine.