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Re: Florida ISL - Ocala - long island jack - 04-04-2014 Having taken the train from Glasgow to Fort William I'm now thinking of a modern day Scottish branch layout Hopefully it will only last until I sober up.[/quote] I know what you mean,my mind has be wandering,here some food for thought,just to get it out of your mind Ray Re: Florida ISL - Ocala - colinw62 - 04-05-2014 long island jack Wrote:Having taken the train from Glasgow to Fort William I'm now thinking of a modern day Scottish branch layout I know what you mean,my mind has be wandering,here some food for thought,just to get it out of your mind [ATTACHMENT NOT FOUND] [ATTACHMENT NOT FOUND] [ATTACHMENT NOT FOUND] [ATTACHMENT NOT FOUND] Ray, Cg H Ray[/quote] Ray, Chris......both of you stop it now!! Re: Florida ISL - Ocala - Mike Kieran - 04-05-2014 fast car Wrote:If everyone would front me about $400.00 each, I would volunteer to go to Ocala and spend a couple of hours looking at the track. The remainder of my time could be spent on the beach at Fort Lauderdale or at the tiki bars I could go research it better for you at a fraction of the cost. Re: Florida ISL - Ocala - Mike Kieran - 04-05-2014 Catt Wrote:Seems to me that if you moved the "bridge" out you could increase the curve radius at both ends and allow longer cars to clear the sides of the "bridge". Or if a real bridge is wanted make it a plate girder and you could build it in segments to any radius you desired. That would work too. All of the curves are a 22 inch minimum radius though. Re: Florida ISL - Ocala - Mike Kieran - 04-05-2014 Ray, Those are beautiful shots. Re: Florida ISL - Ocala - wsor4490uk - 04-09-2014 Ok head has cleared The idea of a Scottish layout has diminished Back to the shed to save having a runaround I could do what the Florida Central do and use two locos. https://www.google.co.uk/maps?q=28.572961,-81.568306&num=1&t=m&z=17 I think I'll go back to my original idea and plan, which was to freelance the layout but operate it with the Florida Highland Railroad, a sister railroad of the Pinsly Railroad Company's Florida Central, Florida Midland and Florida Northern. I have 4 CF'7's that will do the work 1 x Florida Central (red), 1 x Florida Midland (Black) and 2 x Florida Highland (red) I can also call on a GP35 The florida Central had one back in 2002 http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locoPicture.aspx?id=112493 I've also a P2K CN GP18 which with a little work could be http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locoPicture.aspx?id=169357 As seen it the photo above. The track plan is shown below Re: Florida ISL - Ocala - jeznew - 04-09-2014 Excellent find on that GP35 - I can feel an email being sent out to my custom painter John Beuyen. Jez Re: Florida ISL - Ocala - Mike Kieran - 04-09-2014 Great Plans Chris. I realized that I made a mistake and made the layout for a 7x10 foot room instead of an 8x10 foot room. Here's my rendition of a possible Florida Highland Railroad using a push/pull modus operandi. I'm not suggesting that you include every industrial siding in the plan, I'm just showing where there are places to put the switches and industries. As I was playing around with the plan, I kept imagining the Pioneer Valley with it's canyons of brick buildings. Anyway, her's my rendition of the plan: Re: Florida ISL - Ocala - Mike Kieran - 04-09-2014 You could take out either bridge by the doorway. I would actually prefer to keep Bridge A for the longer runaround. I even included a locomotive storage area on the south leg that can store up to 3 locomotives and a caboose. I just love the way cabooses are set up for shoving moves with safety striping and such: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=28737&nseq=34 Re: Florida ISL - Ocala - Mike Kieran - 04-10-2014 I decided to see what the plan would look like without the yard and a siding for the interchange. I also cleaned up the track plan and reduced the amount of sidings. Re: Florida ISL - Ocala - wsor4490uk - 04-10-2014 I'm not sure I like it without the yard and I'm still not convinced about making it a roundy-roundy I looked at the yard as a kind of staging/storage/fiddle yard Also it gives me the opportunity to shuffle a few cars around if I want just a few minutes playing trains without having to run down the line to do some switching. Heres a project for you Mike, why not make them all trailing points apart from the last siding which are facing as seen on 15th Street video http://youtu.be/O_vV0JpMqEI Re: Florida ISL - Ocala - Mike Kieran - 04-10-2014 I like it both ways. I figured that in the plan with the runaround, the runaround could act as the interchange, the yard for shuffling cars (basically, a 2 track yard), and a runaround. If you take out the bridge, you use the section of mainline on the left side of the layout (by the locomotive & caboose storage) as the drill track. Once the train is arranged, you tack on the caboose, runaround the train, and shove the train to it's destinations. The reason I was saying shove is that you don't have to add on a drop leaf or temporary track for drill lead. Your track is all contained within the shelves without wasted space. I redesigned it with a runaround here. I just kept the temporary continuous run option to keep all of the options open. Re: Florida ISL - Ocala - wsor4490uk - 04-11-2014 Another train for the mix Re: Florida ISL - Ocala - Mike Kieran - 04-11-2014 If you freelance the Florida Highland Railroad, you could also use Geeps and RS-3s from the St.J Line in Vermont. Re: Florida ISL - Ocala - wsor4490uk - 04-13-2014 Managed to get the shelving sorted today. I've gone back to the Florida Highland idea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT4mYdGzBKk |