09-02-2012, 07:46 AM
I have been observing the layouts here for some time. Now I'm thinking about turning a portion of spare room in my home into an N scale layout. When traveling to Cincinnati a few weeks ago, I discovered an industrial park in the suburb of Richwood, Kentucky. The park appears to be served by an NS local out of Erlanger in the evening or afternoon hours and at first glance appears to be a good candidate for a long, narrow, compact switching area that could be easily modeled. It appears that most of the customers n the actual Richwood area are receivers of paper, but if one is not completely in love with just boxcar traffic, some creative liberties could be taken to diversify the traffic base.
The modern design of the concrete and steel buildings in the industrial park would appear to make scratchbuilding the structures that would be relatively simple to do, especially with the guidance of some of the recent posts on this forum.
The area in question in an entire wall along one side of the available room and the 'L portion' is an alcove in the room that is almost EXACTLY the size of an 80" door. At this point, I think benchwork would be one 2' door in the alcove area and two 18" doors stretched end to end along the long wall.
A link the the area is provided here:
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Thoughts, comments & suggestions welcome!
Geno
The modern design of the concrete and steel buildings in the industrial park would appear to make scratchbuilding the structures that would be relatively simple to do, especially with the guidance of some of the recent posts on this forum.
The area in question in an entire wall along one side of the available room and the 'L portion' is an alcove in the room that is almost EXACTLY the size of an 80" door. At this point, I think benchwork would be one 2' door in the alcove area and two 18" doors stretched end to end along the long wall.
A link the the area is provided here:
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Thoughts, comments & suggestions welcome!
Geno