06-22-2017, 06:03 PM
Thanks for the replies. It's really helping me figure this out. This is my first layout since working with my dad on his growing up. It's a compromise because it's less space than I would like, but all I have. Things like a yard or engine house make no sense other than I would like to have an area to display things as I complete them. That doesn't mean I couldn't move the engine house scene to an unconnected diorama.
I drew this last night after reading Mike's comment, trying to use the parts I liked the best from the last two plans. Moving the extension track to the front left corner does help with construction because of the bookshelf this will live on.
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I do like that the yard and engine house together let me do things like model a static hopper and tank car hooked to pumps for fuel and sand. I could also put a concrete pad at the end of a yard track for an RIP area. A caboose on jacks with a truck forever removed would be fun to see.
Dave, reading reading your comments, I would like to make a version where the brewery gets the whole layout and I can use the front edge. Corn syrup goes into sweet beers and ciders. The local Coors brewery has an outdoor unloading facility that looks like ground level piping with some storage tanks. I have seen pictures where that happens indoors too, so you could just spot tanks on a covered track. The power house could go either way. Coors still has theirs, and I think the emissions regulations that shut them down in most smaller places hadn't happened yet in my era. Still, if I find I spot on the layout an abandoned power house with a grown over track may look good too as visual interest.
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I drew this last night after reading Mike's comment, trying to use the parts I liked the best from the last two plans. Moving the extension track to the front left corner does help with construction because of the bookshelf this will live on.
I do like that the yard and engine house together let me do things like model a static hopper and tank car hooked to pumps for fuel and sand. I could also put a concrete pad at the end of a yard track for an RIP area. A caboose on jacks with a truck forever removed would be fun to see.
Dave, reading reading your comments, I would like to make a version where the brewery gets the whole layout and I can use the front edge. Corn syrup goes into sweet beers and ciders. The local Coors brewery has an outdoor unloading facility that looks like ground level piping with some storage tanks. I have seen pictures where that happens indoors too, so you could just spot tanks on a covered track. The power house could go either way. Coors still has theirs, and I think the emissions regulations that shut them down in most smaller places hadn't happened yet in my era. Still, if I find I spot on the layout an abandoned power house with a grown over track may look good too as visual interest.
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