Saturday, November 23, 2013

Getting Close

While I have been scraping dried Liquid Nails off the tops of the plywood benchwork (one of the down sides to reusing the modules from the last layout), Bruce has been busy doodling over the ideas we discussed last time he was over. There are a few givens:

  • 24" deep benchwork with 18" on one side for my modeling desk
  • 4' peninsula for WCC Mine No. 4 in Herminie, PA
  • Irwin yard has to be either on the left or right shelf
  • Removable/duckunder at the entrance

Bruce's latest brainstorm
The next list is the desires:

  • Primarily for operations where trains are made up and broken down in Irwin yard and at least 2 switching areas - E. McKeesport and Herminie
  • Mainline offers a continuous run to break in engines, simulate trains coming from off the layout, and maybe show for an open house
  • Outside track for a "mole" yardmaster to make up trains and put them in a 2 track hidden staging yard for east/west arrivals and departures
Earlier today, Bruce sent me the sketch above. Now this has some possibilities. I may have to get the turnouts back out, do some test fitting and even mock operation. 
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  1. lajrmdlrNovember 24, 2014 at 3:44 PM

    Hi Eric
    Really like this plan but liking switching would only have one yard on left side. Would keep ,the furthest left one & replace the right one w/ switching & make it run thru. Would make the peninsula sides same width to have more industries on left side. Really like the hidden "staging" tracks. If it were mine would need it for 3 interchange RRs (ATSF, SP, & UP). My RR is the Los Angeles Junction Ry. Since I've been doodling layout plans for 40+ years really want to try doing yours also. Mine has to be an E shape because there's a heater on one wall. If you want to see it email me at lajrmdlr@gmail.com Can you figure out where that came from? LOL

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