Good thing I haven’t actually built anything. But now that I have a couple of locos, a DCC system, and a stack of car kits to build, I’m getting anxious to have some sort of track to run things, at least a little bit.
In perusing Andrew Martin’s site full of small switching plans, I found a whole bunch that look like they’d be plenty interesting to switch on, and would fit on the total 2x8 benchwork I’ve built to date. Only thing about all of them though, I’d have to get going with the Fastracks turnouts, because they are all designed for small turnouts and unless they’ve fixed them, the Atlas #4 in Code 83 have the annoying waviness on the straight leg - not going to use those ever again.
But then I found this one. http://images5.fotopic.net/?iid=ysydek&noresize=1&nostamp=1&quality=70
It’s almost exactly the concept I was goign for anyway, similar to what Stein drew for me in oen of my previous threads. Only Andrew has a yard/A/D tracks where my cement plant would be and an industry where the yard would be - no biggie there. Thing is, this is actually SMALLER than my maximum space - I’d only have to build one more 2x4 module and the benchwork is done. I might also mirror image it since 4’ from the wall won’t interfere with walking through the room and it would keep from blocking 4’ of the window. That would take away from it being even somewhat related to an actual Reading branch line, but I sort of gave up on the idea of reusing anythign I build as a ‘for now’ layout in any future one (other than saving the benchwork). My primary goal is to be able to run trains and do some operation.
I didn;t post any of the 2x8 (or smaller) layouts, there’s literally dozens of them and most look like they would be fun. Hmm, crazy idea - just put the foam on my benchwork and buy a bunch of Unitrack and build one layout, run it for a while, then change it to a differe
