UP Elmwood Subdivision - N Scale Layout

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So here's the first plan I put together for the office layout.



The guest bed would be the big dark blue box, the desk the black box. The black area at the very lower left are walls.

So we have a single level track plan. a dogbone I believe you would call it almost. The back 8" of the layout is space for 4 staging yards. Since I still had the desk wall, I added in a 3 additional shorter staging tracks there as well being the monitors. The 2% grade loop will drop the track to this mini yard.

I opted to keep the scene the town scene of Elmwood. I have 2 small industry spurs, as well at the larger Superior Paper Mill spur. In case I want dom some switching, I'll have some spurs for it.

The scene is just long enough for me to have 100" mainline and siding for meets. The staging can hold trains up 127", so I can run a really long one through if I wanted while keeping a shorter on the siding.

As much as I'll miss at the different parts of the soon to be "Old Layout", having this smaller one scene kind of layout is kinda nice. I'm be able to dedicated time & effort to really working on this one section (which be the entire layout) as opposed to multiple ones, ya know. It's hard to explain. Like I won't feel so overwhelmed by having such large layout. The long runs are great, but all the scenery work....oy!

In order to keep the design and the work simple, I don't think I'm going to do a double deck. So my double track helix will eventually go on sale once it's removed.

While it's sad to see the old layout go, I'm actually kind of excited to get to work on this new smaller one.