Thanks for the kind comments about the West industry.

The East industry

Step 1: Remove old structures, done
Step 2: Plan new site, in progress

I am using my longest and shortest trucks to figure out what kind of truck loading is feasible in the given space. U turns of 18-wheelers are a space hog and killed many plans in the past.

Hi Reinhard,
I really like the new look of the layout. But I must admit I have liked all the other versions as well. As a thought for the new area in the east yard, have you thought about a corn syrup transloading terminal. In the new issue of Model Railroader, Lance Mindheim has an article about a new switching layout and he may use a company called Sweetener Products which is in Vernon,Ca. If you Google Map the company, it may be an idea for that location. Seems to have lots of tank cars,lots of tank trucks and lots of switching.
Al Jones

Al, I am thinking about something inspired by Nestle Purina Pet care in Jefferson, Wi. It is a perfect reason to have reefers and boxcars and I like the way the shoeboxes are arranged to form a complex industry.

ps. I am a little bit disappointed from Lance's Vernon plan. I have expected more of the unique Vernon situation with UP, BNSF and LAJ working so close together. May be he missed an opportunity to do something more crowded but still have an eye on the prototype. His solution looks to me a little bit to generic.

May be I have some more time now and should use it to build a cardboard mockup first.




The view from my chair during an operating session


That was great fun on a Sunday morning

ps. Got a "nice" comment from my little wife. " Just stay with the mockups and pimp them up. It will be scrapped anyway soon..... "
pps. I wish I could do an industry like this one http://www.pbase.com/espeef5/image/126307220

Oh, yes, Reinhard - that circular layout is absolutely superb, and the buildings are inspirational

Version 2. Rapid prototyping with cardboard is fun

You know Reinhard, I think I'm really going to like your retirement almost as much as you do! Always like seeing what's next

ratled

There is an old structure on the hatch that interferes with the new leftmost building. I lowered all three buildings at the left side.


That works perfect, but I do not like it. The taller dimensions look far better. Two choices
a. stay with the lower buildings
b. remove the building from the hatch
I will decide when I do the final styrene building.

Carefully check out the track plan of the circular layout, as I read it you cant even run your train round in a full circle, just back and forwards a bit.

Im going to have to call those painters out for unsafe work practices, working too close to an active rail line without a suitable barrier protection to prevent them accidentally getting hit by the train. An orange safety vest wont protect you from a train.
Damn painters, you have to watch them like a hawk, always pulling shifty moves to try and save some time.
Not a real time saving if you end up injured or dead and we have to deal with the cops and the coroners court.


Mark

Mark - the circular layout is actually a figure 8 folded inside itself - the train is of a length that is just short of meeting itself on the diamond, and circulates quite happily - there is a video on the net of it doing just that but I don't remember where
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Well I stand corrected.
I sure am glad I dont work at those facilities because there is no time between trains to cross the tracks.
Boy that caboose is lucky its a shorty or it would get clipped.

Mark

Looking great Reinhard, I like the design of this new industry, no frills, and shows plenty of (rail)road activity.

Looking forward how you're going to develop this one.

Koos

Mr Fixit Wrote:Well I stand corrected.
I sure am glad I dont work at those facilities because there is no time between trains to cross the tracks.
Boy that caboose is lucky its a shorty or it would get clipped.

Mark

Maybe that is how it got to be a "shorty"!

YIKES

Someone will have some explaining to do then.

I dont want to be around when that happens.

Mark

Hi Reinhard,

somewhere on Big Blue (perhaps in one of your threads) there was a discussion on HO car models for sale, particularly USA models, other than transition era.
You may be familiar with Neo scale models, who make highly detailed (and somewhat expensive) models of 'ordinary cars', as well as some expensive ones.
I found a german online shop that sells these and currently there is a big discount on NEO models, going from 26 down to just under 19 euro's each.
While I'm not going to fill the streets with these expensive cars, they are nice for foreground scenes, leaving lesser detailed models to the back.

Anyway, here's the link, perhaps there's something for your liking there too: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.martinfredrichmodelle.de/contents/de/d382.html">http://www.martinfredrichmodelle.de/con ... /d382.html</a><!-- m -->

Koos