I don't know if this topic should go here or not, but here it goes.
I model the Erie Lackawanna. I try to detail all loco's and rolling stock per every detail, a rivet counter, if you want to call it that.
Well, for me anyway this is no longer fun. I'm spending too much time on getting the horn or such just right. In addition, my track plan was made without reguard to the operations or location of the EL. I have considered scraping the existing layout and starting over. That's why I have bugged you guy's about helix's and double deck layouts. Due to room size limitations and even compression of EL track layouts, I do not feel it would represent the EL at all. Also, during this time period, I had the opportunity to attend a clinic on operations using a waybill and carcard system that I found to be very interesting.
So, why change the track plan and start over? I have done that once already to remove a duck under. The existing layout allows for continuous running with a yard, engine servicing facilities, industry switching areas, interchange track, and staging. The layout can be run point to point , so to speak, if the staging areas are the two points.
Freelancing may fit my needs. After much research on the operations and history of railroads in and around Indiana, I have come up with the following.:
Set in the mid-'60's, the railroad will run from St. Louis, MO to Indianapolis, IN to Cleveland, OH. The main purpose of this railroad will be a bridge line from St. Louis to Cleveland and to transport coal from the Illinois Coal Basin at Petersburgh, IN to the coal docks at Cleveland.
This would fit the existing track plan nicely. One staging yard will be St. Louis and the other Cleveland. The existing yard and engine servicing facilities will be Indianapolis with a branch line to Bloomington, IN. The EL will have running rights from Indianapolis to Cleveland.
Does this sound realistic?
Now a name.
Indiana Midland - Like this one the best so far.
St. Louis and Lake Erie - ?
Lake Erie and Southern - ?
Anybody have any other idea's?
If you have gotten this far in reading, Thanks for your interest and any suggestions you may have.
Marty
I model the Erie Lackawanna. I try to detail all loco's and rolling stock per every detail, a rivet counter, if you want to call it that.
Well, for me anyway this is no longer fun. I'm spending too much time on getting the horn or such just right. In addition, my track plan was made without reguard to the operations or location of the EL. I have considered scraping the existing layout and starting over. That's why I have bugged you guy's about helix's and double deck layouts. Due to room size limitations and even compression of EL track layouts, I do not feel it would represent the EL at all. Also, during this time period, I had the opportunity to attend a clinic on operations using a waybill and carcard system that I found to be very interesting.
So, why change the track plan and start over? I have done that once already to remove a duck under. The existing layout allows for continuous running with a yard, engine servicing facilities, industry switching areas, interchange track, and staging. The layout can be run point to point , so to speak, if the staging areas are the two points.
Freelancing may fit my needs. After much research on the operations and history of railroads in and around Indiana, I have come up with the following.:
Set in the mid-'60's, the railroad will run from St. Louis, MO to Indianapolis, IN to Cleveland, OH. The main purpose of this railroad will be a bridge line from St. Louis to Cleveland and to transport coal from the Illinois Coal Basin at Petersburgh, IN to the coal docks at Cleveland.
This would fit the existing track plan nicely. One staging yard will be St. Louis and the other Cleveland. The existing yard and engine servicing facilities will be Indianapolis with a branch line to Bloomington, IN. The EL will have running rights from Indianapolis to Cleveland.
Does this sound realistic?
Now a name.
Indiana Midland - Like this one the best so far.
St. Louis and Lake Erie - ?
Lake Erie and Southern - ?
Anybody have any other idea's?
If you have gotten this far in reading, Thanks for your interest and any suggestions you may have.
Marty