Hello,
some month ago, I've started my first small layout, representing a piece of the West Side Lumber Co.
Today, I've spend some hours and created some extensions to this modular layout...
I was just blown away by this design and I think, I'll have a new lifetime job in modelrailroading
Let's start with the first level '1'. This level shows Tuolumne with the sawmill and all tracks and railroad-structures. The trains will leave the yard through the millgate, cross the street and run over some farm-landscape to the helix in the upper left.
The helix will bring the trains to the secound level at +40cm. The train will leave the helix through the upper flume entrence at Friedenberg. The line will continue along the rivercanyon to scenes like Mustang and Big Rock Cut. The darkgrey colored modul will be a blackbox with tunnel, to illustrate the missing distance and elevation between this and the next scene. This is River Bridge with the siding, trestle and watchmans shack. After we've crossed the bridge, the train will run across the room back to the helix area and wind up to the next level.
At level 3, the train will reach Camp 8 with the first reload. My layout is designed to represent the 1951 burn season, with reloads at Camp 8, 9 and Deadwood.The rest of the mainline was not served in this year. Leaving camp 8, we'll run through the next Warp-tunnel and will reach Deadwood. After turning the Shay on the wye, the loco will bring the logcars to the reload.
At the moment, I've only Camp 8 in work, My first idea is, to finish level 3 first. But before I'll start this, I'll finish my fiddle and camp 8.
Gerd
some month ago, I've started my first small layout, representing a piece of the West Side Lumber Co.
Today, I've spend some hours and created some extensions to this modular layout...
I was just blown away by this design and I think, I'll have a new lifetime job in modelrailroading
Let's start with the first level '1'. This level shows Tuolumne with the sawmill and all tracks and railroad-structures. The trains will leave the yard through the millgate, cross the street and run over some farm-landscape to the helix in the upper left.
The helix will bring the trains to the secound level at +40cm. The train will leave the helix through the upper flume entrence at Friedenberg. The line will continue along the rivercanyon to scenes like Mustang and Big Rock Cut. The darkgrey colored modul will be a blackbox with tunnel, to illustrate the missing distance and elevation between this and the next scene. This is River Bridge with the siding, trestle and watchmans shack. After we've crossed the bridge, the train will run across the room back to the helix area and wind up to the next level.
At level 3, the train will reach Camp 8 with the first reload. My layout is designed to represent the 1951 burn season, with reloads at Camp 8, 9 and Deadwood.The rest of the mainline was not served in this year. Leaving camp 8, we'll run through the next Warp-tunnel and will reach Deadwood. After turning the Shay on the wye, the loco will bring the logcars to the reload.
At the moment, I've only Camp 8 in work, My first idea is, to finish level 3 first. But before I'll start this, I'll finish my fiddle and camp 8.
Gerd