04-25-2013, 08:43 PM
It's been a bit more than twenty years since I built a layout. This one's a beginner-type layout to try out some track construction ideas, operation, and other stuff. The concept is a dead-end spur located between Chelsea Avenue and the Wolf River near Watkins Road, just east of what was known as the Firestone Loop in north Memphis left over from the old Union Railway Company of Memphis. Nice run-on sentence, no? Era is 1996 through 2006. The layout is 72 by 10 inches, with a 50-inch stick to the right that spans a door and functions as staging and extra switching lead. The available lead is 68 inches which is roughly eight 50-foot cars plus a GP-type locomotive. The Elvis Track holds five 50-foot cars, and the Rodeo Track holds four 50-foot cars in the clear. New Chicago Supply Co. is likely a distributor for GERN's patented Non-Magnetic Flux product line.