Freelance 2013-3

[dave_long]

Good find, our ebay has been a little quiet on good US locos lately. I wouldnt want to try and paint that BNSF orange livery.
I'd love the room to build the CIRY compound and built the whole large Y into the Brick yard and a long the Cermak Rd. I think domino sugar/foods would make a great model down by the river with its spurs and loop in the overgrown hedges. I'm planning a very small micro with just 2 spurs, a sort of generic Chicago so I can use CIRY, Chicago shortline, BNSF, SOO, CN, NS, Chicago Terminal, and anything else I can find.

However this is still my favourite piece of railroad in Chicago, but wouldn't make an interesting micro, but would suit a large layout like yours <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=215871">http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=215871</a><!-- m -->

Dave

[shortliner]

Looking forward to your new Micro, Dave - love little micro layouts

[dave_long]

Looking forward to your new Micro, Dave - love little micro layouts

Shouldn't have a long wait I'll post here and rmweb soon, ready for Tvnam 14'.

[faraway]

The old yard wit the space saving 3-way Peco switch

The plan to get rid of the tight curves of the switch and sacrifice one stub track

Two hours later

Next week: Doing all the dirt work of ballast and ground cover

ps. Six switches remaining on the layout but 17 toggle switches in the fascia from the beginning. It is a long way to get layout space and track complexity in balance....
pps. note the urban side walk along the industry wall

[faraway]

..... I've a detailed order ready to go to a printers in the UK for decals for all 3, as I too found nothing similar, however I see your version and it does look good.....

Dave, is there a change to get one or two sets for me? I may use a Conrail switcher as a base for the blue one.

ps. Payment via Paypal or now with the new standard bank account identification in the EU (SEPA) even more simple via bank to bank transaction.

[sailormatlac]

Looking good Reinhard, it's been a while since you reworked the trackage. For a scene perspective, it looks much more realistic and I suppose the dismantled stub shouldn't affect your switching routine.

Matt

[lajry]

3 way switches are not all that uncommon in yard situation as evidenced by the one in LAJ's A Yard. First image is a Bing Birdseye & 2nd a Google aerial. Note the other switches "stacked" on top of the 3 way. Any one want to try and handlay these? LOL :? It doesn't show up on Google any more as BNSF is redoing the A yard.

   

   

[faraway]

Andy, that is really tight space. It is frequent found at German central railway stations located in the center of cities where no space for expansion is available since over 100 years.

[dave_long]

..... I've a detailed order ready to go to a printers in the UK for decals for all 3, as I too found nothing similar, however I see your version and it does look good.....

Dave, is there a change to get one or two sets for me? I may use a Conrail switcher as a base for the blue one.

ps. Payment via Paypal or now with the new standard bank account identification in the EU (SEPA) even more simple via bank to bank transaction.

Reinhard
I sent a document to a decal specialist in the UK and they are currently working on it, I asked them to do completely 1206, 1209 (number and text but not the stripes on the pilots) and 1202 blue with white stripe SW14. I'll probably not hear back from them before the new year. So I'll let you know more when my order has been produced and they'll store them on file anyway so extras shouldnt be an issue.

[faraway]

Dave, thank you. That sounds perfect to me.

I found a Wiki page dealing with Cermak Rd <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cermak_Road">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cermak_Road</a><!-- m -->
It has a nice chapter about the industrial zone, Pilsen listing and explaining a lot of industries.

Couldn't do nothing and applied some ballast :-)

[Mike Kieran]

I like the realignment and the abandoned track, At least you don't have to worry about your cars falling off the edge of the world.

[faraway]

I had a lousy morning. The track to be removed was buried in sand and NOT water dissolvable white glue. A mistake I did some years ago on some spots of the layout. The sand and glue became hard as concrete. I had to break tie by tie from the "concrete"

[torikoos]

I like the new look there Reinhard, I don't think you will miss that stub track too much operationally, looking good.

Koos


Frohliche Weinachten und ein Gutes Neujahr von mir zu alle Modeleisenbahner in Deutschland hier auf 'The Gauge/Big Blue'.

[lajry]

Reinhard
That spur track looks like it can be used as a team track giving you one more spot to put a variety of freight cars like boxcars, flat cars, gondolas & hoppers to name a few. And given your creative mind you'll think of even more.

[faraway]

One of many uses for the track or at least the end of the track is a scrap yard loading backed scrap into gondolas. CIRY runs gondolas and serves a scarp yard at the river front and I wanted to run some gondolas too.