01-19-2015, 12:38 PM
Greeting all,
After a year of messing about in the shed its time to settle down and get a crack on with my permanent layout.
After a number of ideas were thrown about last year I have decided to stick with an end to end plan
I have left the windows at the front of the shed clear to make it feel as big as possible.
The layout will be set in central Florida, and will be based on the Pinsly group of Florida railroads but under the name of Florida Highland
The FHRR will use two locomotives to run their trains on the branch.
These will be from me ever growing group of CF7s
Here is a video of two of them in action.
http://youtu.be/S6b8NnWpFE4
For the track plan I have cherry picked a number of my favourite industries from the Florida Central railroad , these include
1- 84 Lumber (lumber loads in Boxcars, Centre-beam and Bulkhead flats)
2- Cemex Cement Supplies (100 ton 2 bay hoppers and ACF Center flow 2 bay hopper) ex Southdown
3- CMC Recycling (assorted gondolas)
4- Louis Dreyfus Citrus Inc (Trinity 64' Reefers)
Located off the layout
5- Plastic Tubing Industries (assorted tank cars) (Hazmat) Pushed up to gates and then PTI tractor comes and pulls them inside their compound
Track plan
84 Lumber and Cement area
PTI drop off point and CMC area
The finished baseboard can be seen here
http://youtu.be/Aub161AuVd0
Track laying will shortly start
After a year of messing about in the shed its time to settle down and get a crack on with my permanent layout.
After a number of ideas were thrown about last year I have decided to stick with an end to end plan
I have left the windows at the front of the shed clear to make it feel as big as possible.
The layout will be set in central Florida, and will be based on the Pinsly group of Florida railroads but under the name of Florida Highland
The FHRR will use two locomotives to run their trains on the branch.
These will be from me ever growing group of CF7s
Here is a video of two of them in action.
http://youtu.be/S6b8NnWpFE4
For the track plan I have cherry picked a number of my favourite industries from the Florida Central railroad , these include
1- 84 Lumber (lumber loads in Boxcars, Centre-beam and Bulkhead flats)
2- Cemex Cement Supplies (100 ton 2 bay hoppers and ACF Center flow 2 bay hopper) ex Southdown
3- CMC Recycling (assorted gondolas)
4- Louis Dreyfus Citrus Inc (Trinity 64' Reefers)
Located off the layout
5- Plastic Tubing Industries (assorted tank cars) (Hazmat) Pushed up to gates and then PTI tractor comes and pulls them inside their compound
Track plan
84 Lumber and Cement area
PTI drop off point and CMC area
The finished baseboard can be seen here
http://youtu.be/Aub161AuVd0
Track laying will shortly start
Chris
England
England