Help reading Track Diagram

[sailormatlac]

Are you going to model the need to either back out of the Marion yard to head South on the branch or the need to back into the Marion yard if the train is arriving at Marion?

You may be interested in Clear Block Production of Vignettes of the ERIE LACKAWANNA Volumes 1 & 2 since it has footage of the branch.

EDIT: It took me some time to understand the back out move out of Marion. Now I understand what you mean. I would have been neat.


If I model the branch, it will be only one town on a continuous run and operated as a switching layout. Marion would be great, but it's more than I can chew and my goal is to focus on local freight switching. I've seen a few photo reports from the late 40s and early 50s documenting that aspect of Dayton Branch. I've got three choices: Durbin with CCC&StL traffic and the limestone plant, modelling Maitland and DT&I interchange or going fully rural with Richwood. All three concepts works fine in a 10' x 12' area and would provide a decent amount of entertainment for a solo operator in an hour. The train - depending on its direction - would be staged in open space then enter the town.

Richwood


Maitland


Thanks for the recommendation, I'll take a look at that. I've looked for books and footage about Erie over the last week, but I'm not eager to buy books I don't know if the content is pertinent.