Yesterday I was cleaning out a room in the basement Sunday and I got that brainstorming while you're working kinda thing going on while I was in there. So I broke out the tape measure and checked the room out again. Then I went to one of the corners to figure out what kinda radii I could get away with. I installed Cadrail on my desktop and started doing some planning.
To set the scene "if you will" I am doing sort of a Diarama with a continuous running double track main going through it. Possibly it'll expand into a monster but I want to start simple to just get some trains running.
The first picture is the whole room with the outline of where the diarama section will be. The Top and right of the room is against the basement wall so theres no possibilities of going outside those lines. On the left I want to have a small staging "yard" (probably one track per main so I could have 4 trains if I wanted.
The second picture is focused on the diarama section itself. I'm thinking of an Interchanging track maybe. I might just leave it out to keep the area from getting too cluttered. I would like to have an oil or fuel terminal for tank cars. I'm not sure what else though...... maybe Magic Pan Bakeries.
Anyones input is welcome!! I'm still in the planning stages so if you guys have any ideas fo r the industries/interchanges go for it.
Jacob
To set the scene "if you will" I am doing sort of a Diarama with a continuous running double track main going through it. Possibly it'll expand into a monster but I want to start simple to just get some trains running.
The first picture is the whole room with the outline of where the diarama section will be. The Top and right of the room is against the basement wall so theres no possibilities of going outside those lines. On the left I want to have a small staging "yard" (probably one track per main so I could have 4 trains if I wanted.
The second picture is focused on the diarama section itself. I'm thinking of an Interchanging track maybe. I might just leave it out to keep the area from getting too cluttered. I would like to have an oil or fuel terminal for tank cars. I'm not sure what else though...... maybe Magic Pan Bakeries.
Anyones input is welcome!! I'm still in the planning stages so if you guys have any ideas fo r the industries/interchanges go for it.
Jacob