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Carfloats  - Spend a few hours on this superb site

 

http://www.trainweb.org/bedt/IndustrialLocos.html

 

Also some interesting youtube vids on the modern Chicago industrial switching scene - would make a nice modern layout.

 

 

 

Lots more on chicagojoe28's site

 

https://www.youtube.com/user/Chicagojoe28/videos

 

Brit15

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Jerry - the most sensible (and both easy, and simple) way is that the carfloat arrived before you start your shift - so it is there when you clock on- and sails after you have finished - so it is still there when you go home and the next shift has taken over.

You can move it about to simulate sailing, using rods or levers under the layout  - but whether it is worth the added complication is up to you - or have the float on a roll-about tea trolley-type arrangement - using more than one if you want to make life complicated.

 

I made life difficult for myself by building an HO layout that fitted into a Shoebox ( for a competition, and to see if I could do it!) - if that would interest you see http://rmweb.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=29306&start=0&hilit=ingleferry+wharf , and also http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/112913-ingleferry-wharf-went-to-a-further-exhibition/ - this float moves sideways and is part of a "reversed Inglenook" - where the car float forms the sidings (which move), and the head-shunt remains stationary ( the reverse of normal practice) You can also find it on Pages 73, and 78a of http://www.Carendt.com. I've also attached an article from a way-back MRR regarding shift work operations which might be of interest, and/or use to your operations.

 

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Goodness where was that picture taken. 

B&O railroad + curved arch bridge strongly suggests it was taken on the Thomas Viaduct.  Claimed to be one of the oldest railroad bridges still in use, completed in 1835.  

 

After a little google digging, I found this page:

 

    http://thomas-viaduct-relay-maryland.blogspot.com/

 

And if you scroll most of the way down, You'll see both the original image, and another shot of the same trains from a different angle.

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Thanks everyone for your replies.

 

Been a very busy few weeks, I haven't managed to do much modelling but I have made a start on a new layout ( British ) and once that's built i will get round to the American one.

 

Thanks again everyone.

 

Jerry.

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Is there much difference between the U.S. Way of doing things to Canadian?

 

Jerry.

One subtle difference is that the cross bucks on Canadian grade crossings say Railway Crossing rather that Railroad Crossing. During my first trip to North America in the early 1970s I was rather intrigued to see that on some US grade crossings but it was a Canadian railway (CN I think) that had lines running through Maine or Vermont.  The other difference was that there seemed to be more local passenger services running outside the connurbations and commuter territories than in the US where by then little more than Amtrak services were operating. This would give scope for a Budd railcar or two. 

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Jerry, if you are still interested in building a US Inglenook layout with some real switching opportunities, Google or Bing "Chicago Fork layout", "Fiddlestick Switch Job layout", "Tilley Yard South layout", "Seaford Lumber layout", and "Dawson Station layout." You can also check out www.model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/30075 for more information about real Inglenook switching opportunities. I had just built a 4-3-2 Inglenook layout with a switching(shunting) lead capacity of a locomotive plus two cars. I use six cars on my layout. The layout is 4 feet long, 1 foot wide and it is in N scale.

 

Wendell

Idaho, USA

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A big thank you to you all, as you may know my health has deteriorated quite suddenly so I'm not doing much modelling at all at the moment, they are testing me for a condition called Myasthenia gravis.

 

Most modelling is put on hold until I get the right treatment, I'm just concentrating on getting better and a small British micro layout for now.

 

I will be back at some point.

 

Jerry.

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