Hi! I'm New Here with a Small Layout
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Hi, I'm Joseph

Longtime model railroader and builder currently on my 3rd layout. I rent, so I have a small, portable layout built from 3 modules. I grew up near the Southern Pacific tracks in the San Fernando Valley, the Burbank Branch, which I've based this and my previous layouts on.

Please take some time to visit my flickr and youtube page for tons of pictures and video.

Thank you!

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#2
Seems like there's plenty of room to add a couple more industries, w/ spurs along top wall. You might also think about using the team track spur for a staging cassette so you're not 0-5-0ing cars all the time.
Andy Jackson
Santa Fe Springs CA
ATSF/LAJ Ry Fan & Modeler
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#3
Welcome to Big Blue! You have a great little switching layout. Your scratch building projects and the video clip documentation is very impressive.
Reinhard
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Thanks Andy and Reinhard for the comments!

Here's the track plan thus far. I've kept it simple because I rent and in the past 2 years that I've been working on this, the layout has been moved 3 times. When I eventually extend it by adding more modules I've got 3 options, expand the bakery, the team track, and the opposite end. For now, I keep trains short and switch one industry at a time. Fits right in with my busy schedule!


   

   

   


Well looks like I've got the whole posting pics things figured out...Enjoy!
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#5
Can we have another pic of the recycling plant please. You made some damm good tricks to have a huge background building at a very limited space. The backdrop photo matches the front of the structure perfect. I would like to learn (and copy?) how that is done.
Reinhard
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#6
Nice work and welcome to the forum!
Mike

Sent from my pocket calculator using two tin cans and a string
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#7
Welcome! Welcome

T'is nice to see yet another Industrial Switching Layout (ISL) enthusiast and that is one great looking ISL and a great example of a good mixture of track and structures.. Thumbsup Cheers
Larry
Engineman

Summerset Ry

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#8
Welcome to Big Blue, Joseph!

Nicely-done layout and I certainly agree with Reinhard's comment on your use of the background photo with a three-dimensional structure - very well executed. Thumbsup Applause Thumbsup Applause

Wayne
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#9
That's a nice little layout. I started with a couple modules myself until I'm had a dedicated train room to incorporate them into a more permanent setup.
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#10
Glad you could join us! Nice looking layout! You do neat work!
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#11
Wow thanks everyone! I've been visiting this forum for a couple years and there are so many great layouts, and so much to learn. I appreciate everyone's interest in mine as well.

Reinhard, for all the ideas I took from your layout you can definitely take this one! That recycle center started as a mish mash of leftover styrene and an empty space on the layout. I take many walks in Los Angeles, looking for ideas, and that building is based on ones I saw from the 9th Street Bridge (East Olympic Blvd) in Downtown LA. Here's some Google Street View screen shots and a link:

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Not exact copies but definitely representative of typical LA warehousing. For the cardboard and paper bales that fill the area, well I'm still perfecting an idea for that.

This is the machinery that you might find in these places, found with google searches

   

   

   


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#12
Continued from above

That last picture is what I used as my background. After building the structure to fill my available space, I used Corel Paint Shop Pro to rescale the photo. I then printed 2 copies on 80lb professional paper on my home printer. You can see the line where I overlayed one photo to extend the other.

   

   

Sometimes different angles affect viewing, but most times it's the tape that holds the scene to the wall. Also there is a small gap between the layout and wall.

   

   

   

I hope this helped!
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#13
Thanks a lot for the long and detailed explanation.
Reinhard
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#14
That is a first rate job on the recycling center! Thumbsup Applause
Mike

Sent from my pocket calculator using two tin cans and a string
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#15
Your Bakery could get airslide hoppers for flour, tank cars for oils & plug door boxcars for sending products out. So it could be a very busy place to switch all by itself.
Andy Jackson
Santa Fe Springs CA
ATSF/LAJ Ry Fan & Modeler
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