09-26-2014, 10:03 PM
for the last several years, I've been playing with the layout pictured below, which IMHO is the best 30" x 54" layout in N-Scale ever!
my scenicking was terrible, but the game it made was fun.
Givens and Druthers
(Railroad Name) - to be determined
Scale: N scale
Gauge: (Std, Narrow): std
Prototype: (the railroad you want to model): Fantasy. semi-modern with heritage steam. freight and passenger (eg: just about anything)
Era:
Region:
Railroad:
Space: 36x80 door
Describe Space e.g. basement. Provide diagram showing Overhead clearances and any obstructions or limitations.
Governing Rolling Stock: (Biggest planned): some amtrak passengers. Might eventually try a Tomix shinkansen
Relative Emphasis: (move the V)
|______________V________________________________|
Track/Operation .................................................. ..Scenic realism
I want to try better scenicking this time
|_________________________V______________________|
Mainline Running .................................................. ........ Switching
I want the option to do both, possibly simultaneously
Operation Priorities: (rearrange as required)
wanted: long, aesthetically interesting mainline run. as long as possible while leaving room for a small yard and challenging, but not frustrating, switching. Mountain scenery
Switching at the yard and at the industries should be able to be run without disturbing a train running on the mainline
No storage tracks planned, I'm not averse to use of the 0-5-0 switcher :mrgreen:
Typical operating Crew: __1____
Eye Level (Owner) : N/a
The door will be placed on a table and operated from a standard office chair, with occasional standing. with overall operating height somewhere between 36 and 40 inches.
Turnouts and coupling will be all manual (toothpick based decoupling). I do not plan to add DCC, but to operate the old fashioned way with a couple of power packs. one for the mainline run, one for yard and switching.
I'd like the option to link with my old layout, but I don't know that I'll have space for both. so that is optional and the old layout shouldn't be a consideration in the plans for this one
Add to this any features required or intolerable (e.g. duckunders, multiple levels).
Would like some tunnel/mountain scenery. A two level double folded dogbone mainline would be best. 2% grade max. prefer 11" curve minimum radius if possible on mainline. 9-3/4 is acceptable in switching area
switching area able to operate separately, but linked to the main line
my scenicking was terrible, but the game it made was fun.
Givens and Druthers
(Railroad Name) - to be determined
Scale: N scale
Gauge: (Std, Narrow): std
Prototype: (the railroad you want to model): Fantasy. semi-modern with heritage steam. freight and passenger (eg: just about anything)
Era:
Region:
Railroad:
Space: 36x80 door
Describe Space e.g. basement. Provide diagram showing Overhead clearances and any obstructions or limitations.
Governing Rolling Stock: (Biggest planned): some amtrak passengers. Might eventually try a Tomix shinkansen
Relative Emphasis: (move the V)
|______________V________________________________|
Track/Operation .................................................. ..Scenic realism
I want to try better scenicking this time
|_________________________V______________________|
Mainline Running .................................................. ........ Switching
I want the option to do both, possibly simultaneously
Operation Priorities: (rearrange as required)
wanted: long, aesthetically interesting mainline run. as long as possible while leaving room for a small yard and challenging, but not frustrating, switching. Mountain scenery
Switching at the yard and at the industries should be able to be run without disturbing a train running on the mainline
No storage tracks planned, I'm not averse to use of the 0-5-0 switcher :mrgreen:
Typical operating Crew: __1____
Eye Level (Owner) : N/a
The door will be placed on a table and operated from a standard office chair, with occasional standing. with overall operating height somewhere between 36 and 40 inches.
Turnouts and coupling will be all manual (toothpick based decoupling). I do not plan to add DCC, but to operate the old fashioned way with a couple of power packs. one for the mainline run, one for yard and switching.
I'd like the option to link with my old layout, but I don't know that I'll have space for both. so that is optional and the old layout shouldn't be a consideration in the plans for this one
Add to this any features required or intolerable (e.g. duckunders, multiple levels).
Would like some tunnel/mountain scenery. A two level double folded dogbone mainline would be best. 2% grade max. prefer 11" curve minimum radius if possible on mainline. 9-3/4 is acceptable in switching area
switching area able to operate separately, but linked to the main line
When I hear the iron horse make the hills echo with his snort like thunder, shaking the earth with his feet, and breathing fire and smoke from his nostrils, it seems as if the earth had got a race now worthy to inhabit it.
-- Henry David Thoreau
-- Henry David Thoreau