New layout; finally...

[Traintresta]

So I got started yesterday on a new layout based on the Clearwater Subdivision of CSX but proto-lanced to represent an imaginary spur to an imaginary industrial district in a place called Pinellas Park. Well at least that’s the name I’m using. 

 

Its has been laid out using some borrowed code 83 until I can lay my own using copper clad. Baseboards will also be renewed as part of a train room improvement project but this is a concept proving stage as much as anything.

 

Initially this will be an 8’x4’ L-shape with intentions of becoming a U in time. Run-around will take 4-5 freight cars so one train will not switch all of the spots as there is one at the warehouse, three/four at the back and probably three on each track of the (selectively compressed) transload facility. There will be one more industry added in front of the staging once the benchwork is extended to complete the L.