long island jack

track plan sorted

4 rail served industries in black,a push back siding back to fiddle yard to serve as another industry,

a small hold up siding partly disused, cobbled road and loading area,tall 3 storey buildings.

roadbed will be 3mm cork, with 3mm ply where it crosses the baseboard joints which will have brass screw for soldering the track to (from the days be for the darkside)

hole cut for access to fiddle yard

soon we can lay some track

boards finnished, just front pelmet and trim to do, after track plan and building locations are sorted.

always like the look of the railroads in and around new york especially long island

the layout is not going to be based on any particular location

my idea is to build a switching layout which i can change location by changing loco's and stock

i've been collecting items from the following railroads for a while

LIRR

CNJ

NYC

PC,

PRR

CONRAIL

NY DOCK

llir s1 picture on helm leasing

worked out i will probably need 3 loco's and about 20 freight cars to run it per railroad though so of the freight car can inter-mix with each other depending on date its modeled

track plan will be pretty simple, runround 4 or 5 sidings, maximum train length will be loco + 4-5 cars+caboose,one man operation, dcc control+points

track will be what ever there is in my "whats left of other project box" which happens to be

2 3way

3 left hand

2 right hand

all peco code 100 electofrog

need to get my track templates and lining paper and make a full size plan.

Dear Prof Klyzir

maybe it was the design of my foamcore boards that let them down

the main factor for using timber is i already had the timber

all my layouts have a budget which starts at zero and works down

thats the beauty of forms we can all learn form each other for future projects

point take about foamcore tryed it once with a small layout,but with all the lifting in and out of the car for shows it didn't take the knocks as well as timber.

these boards are only 4x 15in you can pick them up with one hand

i'm still at bit of old school for my baseboards,with ply tops instead of chipboard "HELM" was built to a similar fashion and there standing up to all the moving about, especially up and down the loft ladder where it's stored

frame work built ply tops on

swmbo had allowed me one half of my basement room (cellar),well 12x3 now that "twin falls" had gone, looking through my timber store (other half of cellar) i had enough 4ft lengths of 70x12mm timber save from a failed british layout,once i went over to the darkside there was no going back.

frame work was built, three 4ft by 15 inch boards with 6mm ply tops

pete,

there must be another twin falls i live the other end of the country

had to sell this to make space

for this