Wrecks are becomeing much too common on my layout and that EXTREMELY FRUSTRATES ME!!! :curse:
I couldn't even finish switching the local today, and that pisses me off!! I need a new, larger layout to run my large locomotives, the boggest of which is an AB pair of E7's.
I want to retian the overall flavor of my old layout whiles making it larger to support my rolling stock. Here's the old layout's trackplan.
http://www.the-gauge.com/showthread.php?t=22147
I've got this much space:
...and intend to utilize a rough trianglar shape, plus the little 1X4 for a branch line to a packing plant.
I would like the following:
==Operation==
-A 10 car (assume 45' cars) passing siding
-A siding 5 (67') cars long for the main station
-A 6 track yard, for assembling frieghts
-An engine servicing facilty untilizing the already purchased ATLAS roundhouse and turntable
-lots of industrial spurs, one of which crosses over another at an angle
==Scenery==
-At least 2 or three stations for loacal passenger service, one being the American model builders SP type 22 depot: http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/152-134
(I've got the other, smaller depots too)
-A yard where I can assemble local frieghts
-A suger beet loader, and Suger beet plant
-An Orange Grove, and packing plants, Ice houses, ect.
-A junkyard
-a town near the large depot
-an industrial switching district near the yard.
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I know this sounds like alot, but is it possible?
I couldn't even finish switching the local today, and that pisses me off!! I need a new, larger layout to run my large locomotives, the boggest of which is an AB pair of E7's.
I want to retian the overall flavor of my old layout whiles making it larger to support my rolling stock. Here's the old layout's trackplan.
http://www.the-gauge.com/showthread.php?t=22147
I've got this much space:
...and intend to utilize a rough trianglar shape, plus the little 1X4 for a branch line to a packing plant.
I would like the following:
==Operation==
-A 10 car (assume 45' cars) passing siding
-A siding 5 (67') cars long for the main station
-A 6 track yard, for assembling frieghts
-An engine servicing facilty untilizing the already purchased ATLAS roundhouse and turntable
-lots of industrial spurs, one of which crosses over another at an angle
==Scenery==
-At least 2 or three stations for loacal passenger service, one being the American model builders SP type 22 depot: http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/152-134
(I've got the other, smaller depots too)
-A yard where I can assemble local frieghts
-A suger beet loader, and Suger beet plant
-An Orange Grove, and packing plants, Ice houses, ect.
-A junkyard
-a town near the large depot
-an industrial switching district near the yard.
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I know this sounds like alot, but is it possible?